F2F Class Notes (Tibo) [S]

I plan to go back to my hometown with my husband.  Because the Chinese new year we have 7 days off and the first 3 days we will stay in Shanghai to celebrate the Spring festival with his family and after that we will go to my hometown to see my parents. Until now I just bought the train tickets to my hometown successfully but the back train ticket I haven’t bought it.

The holiday will end in feb 1o so the next day is the work day for everyone so everybody will go back to the city they work in before feb 11. So it’s very hard to get a ticket. Train tickets are cheaper than train tickets.
Because this is the first year I don’t spend Chinese spring festival with my family so I still want to go back.
If parents are healthy enough you can spend the holidays on traveling but because my mother just caught a bad cold and my father is not very healthy recently so I prefer to go home.

We get together with our family to have a big dinner on new year’s eve and the other days we will visit our relatives to wish them happy new year. Before I got married I usually can get a lot red packets from the relatives and after I get married I will give their children red packets.

I plan to go back to my hometown with my husband.  Because during the Chinese new year we have 7 days off.  We will stay in Shanghai to celebrate the Spring festival with his family the first 3 days and after that we will go to my hometown to see my parents. Until recently I couldn’t buy the tickets. Even now,  I just bought a one way train ticket to my hometown successfully but I haven’t bought the return ticket yet.

The holiday will end on Feb 1o, the next day everyone will start working again and they will all go back before Feb 11 So it’s very hard to get a ticket. Train tickets are cheaper than plane tickets.
Because this is the first year I don’t spend the spring festival with my family so I still want to go back.
If your parents are healthy enough you can spend the holidays traveling but because my mother just caught a bad cold and my father is not very healthy recently,  I prefer to go home.

We get together with our family to have a big dinner on new year’s eve and the other days we will visit our relatives to wish them happy new year. Before I got married I usually could get a lot of red packets from my relatives and after I got married I now have to give their children red packets.

Vocabulary

one way ticket / just go
I wasn’t sure when I would come back so I just bought a one way ticket.

return ticket / go and back / back ticket
We bought return tickets online and it was very cheap.

round trip / go and back
A round trip from Shanghai to Beijing costs around 1,000CNY

Chinese calendar /
We are in 2019 but in the Chinese calendar we are in ….

Lunar calendar / calendar depending on the moon.
The dates of the spring festival change every year because they are based on the lunar calendar.

to publish / to release an article
The Chinese government will publish the holiday dates every year.

continuous / doesn’t stop
This fountain uses a closed water circuit, the water flow is continuous, it never stops.

to greet / a greeting
I always write a greeting with the red packets I give.

To wish someone something / 
I visited my uncle to wish him happy new year.

Eve / the night before
new year’s eve / Christmas Eve….
We got together for new year’s eve and we celebrated until midnight.

midnight / 00:00
We stayed up till midnight