VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

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This is another story about my feet. It was Friday night, me and my friends had dinner in a restaurant where there were many people. We had a very happy time during the dinner, the food was delicious and the atmosphere was fun. When we finished, we stood up and my friends followed up me and were all ready to go out of the restaurant. Unfortunately, I didn’t see the stair under my feet and my body lost balance in a sudden. I was not in control of myself and fell forward. What the more unfortunately thing was that in right front of me, there was a wall being made of stone and my head straightly hit onto it. Coming with the attack, a very loud voice of “Pang” attracted people’s attention. People nearby me stopped to eat and looked around at me to see what had happened. My friends were also shocked by my accident and quickly ran to help me up. It must be very embarrassed, but all what I could feel at that moment was dizzy and I even could see some little stars in my eyes and my left glass also flied out of the frame. My friends took me home safely, but I still felt uncomfortable the next day, I thought I might had got a soft brain vibration. I went to see the doctor who did some checks on me and the results showed I was OK but I had to get a drip to less the dizzy and had two sick-holidays to recover.

This is another story about my feet. It was a Friday night, and me and my friends had dinner in a restaurant where there were many people. We had a very happy time during the dinner, and / as the food was delicious and the atmosphere was fun / pleasant / relaxing / warm / lively / energetic. When we finished, we stood up and my friends followed up me and were all ready to go out of / ready to leave the restaurant. Unfortunately, I didn’t see the stair under my feet and my body lost balance all of a sudden / suddenly. I was not in control of my body and fell forward. What was more unfortunate was that right in front of me, there was a wall (that was) made of stone and my head directly hit (into) it. Coming with the hit / Immediately after hitting the wall, a very loud sound of “Pang” attracted people’s attention. The people nearby stopped eating to look around at me to see what had happened. My friends were also shocked by my accident and quickly ran to help me up. It must have been very embarrassing, but all (that) I could feel at that moment was dizziness and I even could see some little stars in my eyes and the left lens of my glasses also flew  out of the frame. My friends took me home safely, but I still felt uncomfortable the next day, and I thought I might had got (gotten) a concussion. I went to see the doctor who did some checks on me and the results showed I was OK but I had to get a drip to lessen the dizziness and had two sick-days to recover.

Grammar

I know what the most unfortunate thing is
what was the most unfortunate thing was

near + noun
nearby
eg. I live near JingAn Temple and my office is nearby.

Vocabulary

go off / go bad – huai le
eg. the milk is off / the eggs will go off next week

fridge / refrigerator – bing xiang

crack the egg into the water, mix it / stir it with chopsticks and boil it – open the egg, put everything together using kuai zi and zhu ta

ingredients – the food you cook with to make a dish

pumpkin – huang gua
eg. Jacob doesn’t like pumpkin! so weird!

slice – to cut sth thin
eg. I sliced the bread into 5 slices

ham – huo tui

fry – jian
eg. i fried the egg for 5 minutes

pot – guo zi

bowl – wan

instant noodles – fang bian mian

instant coffee – very fast to make

seasoning = herbs (green) and spices (different colors)
eg. the instant noodles package comes with seasoning in 2 bags

thick – like jam
thin – like water

thick – hou
thin – bao

depression – yi yu zhen
eg. my father has depression so he takes medicine every day