VIP Class Notes (Tibo)

We had a lot of obstacles

Before to fly -> Before the flight / Before we fly …

If you send all the documents to the consulate to ask them.
Sometimes they say I need you to send me another itinerary / another document / additional documents.

When you need to send one more/additional document, you need to upload everything on the website.
He was going crazy. / he was going nuts

You need to send to the consulate the passport, visa, itinerary, one covid certification.

7 days before the flight you need to do a PCR test.
Then you need to check your temperature twice a day for 7 days.

You need to write that from paper -> you need to write that on paper.

You don’t know what happens in those days.
With the first PCR, you hope the result is negative. But if it is not you are in trouble.
the first PCR gave an inconclusive result / the first PCR was inconclusive.

You do it 7 days before you leave. Then you only have 6 days. You are not sure if China accepts it or not because they are very strict. / rigid .

We did another one and he had a negative result. He sent the email to the consulate and asked if it was possible or not to fly.

The next day when he picked a negative result he sent an email to ask if we could to get the flight the next day and they replied one day later.

Finally they said ok
They said he could do the next PCR not 48h before but only 24h before. / they asked him to do the last test 24h before the flight instead of the normal 48h.

At that moment we were very nervous / stressed.

We were thinking OMG maybe I needed to do that 48h and for you 24h.
I was in the timeframe. / in the time threshold.

Then we get a flight and we need to do an antigenic test in the airport and fill in a form.
When we had the results from the second PCR we had to send a lot of pictures by email to the consulate to get the green QR code (passport, vaccine certificate, declaration of health, itinerary)

All direct flights were cancelled.

We came from Spain / we departed from Spain and transferred in Turkey and then we arrived in Korea and we were there for 16 days. / we stayed there
One week was quarantine then  we visited the city.

You pray China doesn’t cancel the flight

Now we went back to China because we have everything there.
Now we are in quarantine. We hope we can do another 7 days in SH. / the additional 7 days in SH.

I don’t know if they let us do it because the flight from Madrid were all cancelled a lot

If you leave you may not be able to go back for a long time.

We had a direct flight because a Chinese agency rented some planes from Iberia.
That agency arranged a chartered flight.
In January the ticket price was 2k and then when we tried to go on March 1 the cost of the ticket was 4k. And the last flight from Madrid this week 8k.

It is expensive for the airline to operate the flight / route

Vocabulary

threshold (n) limit
My patience reaches a threshold and then I get angry 

To go crazy / to go nuts
I am going crazy over the flight

Make someone crazy / make someone nuts
Communicating with the consulate is making me nuts 

Negative (adj) you don’t have a disease
The PCR gave a negative result

Inconclusive (adj) not giving a clear result
The test was inconclusive

Pronunciation

Obstacles

Temperature

Nervous