VIP Class Notes (Jesse)

Vocabulary

western people / westerners

have you eaten? – how  have you been? / have you been good?

it’s very tired – it’s very tiring / i’m very tired 

flied – flew

air company – airline 

gridlock – very bad traffic, can’t move
eg. NY city is sometimes gridlocked during big events / there was gridlock in the city today

when the rush hour – during rush hour 

apartment complex – xiao qu

safety perspective / point of view

upper class / middle class / lower class

colleague
college

averagely – on average / usually

eat in the restaurant – eat out
eat in – stay at home to eat

take – eat / have / try / taste

butt – bottom – pi gu

2 days ago / 2 days before – 2 days in the past
before 2 days / within 2 days – less than 2 days from now

The funny thing when traveled to Europe
The first stop of this trip was Belgium-Antwerp. My friend has a colleague who is from Antwerp, so she gave us a lot of advices about the places worthy of being visiting and some local restaurants which are very famous in local and need to be made the reservation before several weeks. One of the restaurant is famous as horse steak in the city center. We were very excited about it and looking forward to have a try since we never tasted horse meat before.  The restaurant decoration naturally drew our attention when we stepped into it. It is in the first floor of one old building and with a mezzanine. It is a little crowd but very cozy and warm. There were lots of meat which seemed be salted hanging on the wall.
We selected one seat which was beside the windows and started to order something. Both of my friends ordered the horse steak which was most popular in their store.  After ordered, we just had a rest and looked around the restaurants decoration. Then we found there were several horse heads hanging on the wall and corner and they were staring at us.  At that time, the steak was ready and placed in the table.  How we can eat it?

The funny thing when traveled to Europe
The first stop of this trip was Belgium-Antwerp. My friend has a colleague who is from Antwerp, so she gave us a lot of advice about the places worth visiting and some local restaurants which are very famous locally and we need to make a reservation several weeks before. One of the restaurants is famous for its horse steak in the city center. We were very excited about it and looking forward to having a try since we had never tasted horse meat before. The restaurant decoration naturally drew our attention when we stepped into it. It is on the first floor of an old building and with a mezzanine. It is a little crowded but very cozy and warm. There was lots of meat which seemed be salted / cured hanging on the wall.
We selected one seat which was beside the windows and started to order something. Both of my friends ordered the horse steak which was the most popular dish there. After ordering, we just had a rest and looked around the restaurant’s decoration. Then we found there were several horse heads hanging on the wall and corner and they were staring at us.  At that time, the steak was ready and placed in the table.  How we can eat it?

Pronunciation

sss pronunciation – inside
th pronunciation – outside