Online Class Notes (Tibo)

They bought a boat and we help to repair this boat.
Now we live in a shipyard
I have been living there for about 2 weeks and the plan lasts until February or until the boat is ready.
It is like a small island and I never been here or hear about it -> I had never been there and had never heard about this place before.

It is 3 hours by car / it is 3 hours away by car

It is a small island and it can be very foggy.
When the weather is foggy nobody can go in or out.

This shipyard they never rest, include the week end -> They are always working, including week ends. / they never take a day off
In the end I told them we won’t start work until the pay us the amount we agree upon and they didn’t reply anything. / now they are ghosting me.

I sent back some orders and some I can’t because they refused. -> I sent back the orders I could but some returns were refused.
This project we don’t use any tools because we just supply some engineers to help the client with the shipyard.  / for this project we mostly participate in the planning phase so we don’t really use tools

Actually I have been living there for 2 weeks but I just went to 2 places the factory and the hotel. / I have been living here for two weeks but I only saw / visited the factory and the hotel.

And every morning they pick us up with a bus and every night they bring us back.
I have breakfast in the hotel and lunch at the factory and order food delivery at night.
I want to go out and find some shops but when you are out there is not much to do  / there is not much entertainment

There is the hotel and beside the hotel some KTVs.
And there are like 4 or 5 hotels so all the ship owners live around here when they come.
The whole economy is centered around the shipyard.

A lot are from India and Korea

We are not normal colleagues , we just work together on this project / it is only temporary and the group is small.
Some of them are consulting for the shipyard.  One is doing QC and one is a mechanical and electrical engineer.

it is a barge, it is small and old, the client bought it and they plan to send it to Thailand.
This barge is not a normal boat they will use it to transport machines.
This barge doesn’t have propulsion so another boat has to carry it.

This barge is old and from another owner and last year the client bought it so now they gave the boat a new name. / the client bought it from the previous owner and decided to rename it
They want to have a big party with flower when the project end / they want to celebrate the end of the project with a big party.

I don’t know how to speak that -> I don;t know how to say that / I am not sure how to pronounce that word

it is very Chinese

If the wave and the sea is heavy I will get sea sick so I think I couldn’t live or work in a boat
-> If the sea isn’t calm I easily get sea sick so I wouldn’t be able to live on a boat.

I know one person, the husband of my aunt / My uncle, he worked as a sailor when I was young.
I remember he always left and worked on boats.
He was always at sea.
He really loves this type of life.
She thought it was a dangerous job and he moved to another job on land.

Vocabulary

temporary (adj) only for a short time / not forever
Right now I live close to the shipyard but it is temporary, I will be back to SH next month

temporarily (adv)
I only work here temporarily

third party (n) someone from company / external
We asked a third party to organize the celebration for us

sea sickness (n)
I suffer from sea sickness and usually have to take pills if I get on a boat

sea sick (adj)
Tom felt sea sick and decided to go back to his cabin to rest

remote (adj) : far from everything / not convenient like a city center
This is a remote place, it is hard to find a restaurant around here

to ghost (v) to stop responding / showing sign of life to someone
They started ghosting me after I refused to work for free.

Pronunciation

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management

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