VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W / S]

Every Friday I have an English lesson as I usually book my class on weekend. After a whole day of exhausting work, I press my fingerprint on the attendance machine and take the lift which is often break from the 18th floor. The subway station is just behind my office building, so it’s very convenient for me to take the subway. I just get out of the gate of our building, take a few steps to the right and get to the entrance of the subway station. The way to jingan temple is not very complicated, I take the line 8 to the people’s square and transfer the line 2 to jingan temple. It takes a long way to transfer the subway, and there are so many people everywhere when I walk. It takes me ten minutes to change the subways and the whole distance costs me about 40 minutes. So if I book the lesson on 6pm, I will be late for about 10 minutes.

Every Friday I have an English lesson as I usually book my class on the weekend. After a whole day of exhausting work, I press my fingerprint on the attendance machine and take the lift, which is often broken, from the 18th floor. The subway station is just behind my office building, so it’s very convenient for me to take the subway. I just get out of the gate of our building, take a few steps to the right and get to the entrance of the subway station. The way to jingan temple is not very complicated. I take line 8 to people’s square and transfer line 2 to jingan temple. It is a long way to transfer when you take the subway, and there are so many people everywhere on the way. It takes me ten minutes to change lines and the whole trip takes me about 40 minutes. So if I book the lesson at 6pm, I will be late by about 10 minutes / I will be 10 minutes late.

Vocabulary

yum cha / dim sum = zao cha / dian xing

fat = fei rou

butt / ass / arse / bottom / booty = pi gu

I was 10 minutes late to class / I was late to class by 10 minutes

broken – describes the situation of sth (huai le)
eg. my phone is broken
eg2. my phone broke / i broke my phone

distance = how far sth is
eg. the distance from jingan to my house is 5km

change trains / change lines
eg. I hate changing lines because it takes so long to transfer.

transfer = to change trains / lines
eg. I will transfer at JingAn Temple

14 wan = 140 thousand – just add a “0” 

i took the lift down yesterday = what I did in the past yesterday
i would take the lift down after work = normally what I did in the past

zebra crossing = ban ma xian

when i was in jingan temple, after working I took the lift down to the first floor and went out of the door at corner, and then I went straight ahead through 2 crosses, and I saw the logo and I turned right, and took the lift up to the 9th floor and went out and pressed the button to  let them open the door.

when i was in jingan temple, after work I would take the lift down to the first floor and would go out of the door at the corner, and then I would go straight ahead through 2 intersections / crossings, and when I saw the logo and I would turn right, and take the lift up to the 9th floor and go out and press the button to let them open the door.