VIP Class Notes (Tibo)

Every time I say something there is the sound repeating me -> every time I said something I could hear an echo 

I was expected a room that when you open the door you just see the bed. -> I was expecting / I expected a very small room

My company don’t have too much choice. -> my company doesn’t  / didn’t
There is a public list about all the hotels that can receive quarantine client. -> there is a list of the government approved hotels.

they wouldn’t give me such a premium hotel if it wasn’t the last choice. / They wouldn’t have given me such a premium hotel if it hadn’t been the last choice. (3rd conditional)  / They would have given a cheaper hotel if I had been possible  / if they had had another choice.

The tenant had some complains because I didn’t move all my things out and they tried to move in earlier because of the new emerging covid cases in SH.

I asked my cleaning lady to do the final cleaning but she didn’t have the time to do that.

everyone has to accept the reality within the limited situation. -> we had to make do with the situation / we all had to compromise

I only had around two weeks to pack all the things and I needed to segment them into different categories and I will stay 2 or 3 months in my friend’s place.

I also had things that I didn’t want to throw away and I needed to send them to my parent’s apartment.

It is also the hottest weather in the past 20 years.

After SH’s lockdown I have less fear about the quarantine. / I’m not as worried about the quarantine as before.

Before the SH lockdown I was so panicked/stressed about the quarantine.
They did strict double check for my test. They asked me to do a nuclear acid test right after I landed. I waited about 3h to get the results and once I tested negative they told me you have to go to the hotel and I took the subway.

It was quite late so I was the only person on the train.

They gave me this bracelet to monitor me/ monitor my position. It will monitor where I am.
If I go out with it it will alert them .

They ask me to activate it within the hotel area 

they asked me to sign some documents like a quarantine order.
If I cut the bracelet they will also find me.
my friend told me her aunty arrived at home and cut it and no one called her.

The Chinese central media invited one expert and the expert said the new covid variant is not as dangerous as the previous one.

I just waiting all the clients, I saw only 3 people registered.
Each meeting has a limitation for the attendance.
I was imagined that I need to wait them at the entrance of the VR experience. They join, I chat with them and take a photo.
Maybe I teach them a bit how to use some functions and later they can walk around the exhibition by themselves.

We will gathering at the end of the exhibition and we can have a talk.

Thank you for our two experts. -> I would also like to thank the experts for joining us

Starting from March this position was supposed to be in HK, I was expected to move to HK before April but I experienced the quarantine and the lockdown and everything was delayed.

According to my previous experience the traffic was about 1/10th of the normal one but counters that had flights were quite packed.

They asked me to issue many documents to prove I was clean/I wasn’t sick and I could leave.

Currently the government won’t release any visa unless you have necessary reasons to go abroad.
It becomes quite difficult for me to fly back. I saw a news yesterday, it mentioned you need to win a lucky draw to go back.

The Chinese embassy didn’t issue the green code and she had to wait another 2 weeks to do the test again. Later they felt it was too hard so they flew to HK.

Vocabulary

Quota (n) limited number
They have a quota for the number of people allowed to enter mainland from HK.

Joystick  (n) part of the controller usually use to move (left/right/up/down)
I used the joystick to move around

Variant (n) something similar but somehow different to another version
The new covid BA5 variant is easily transmissible 

To make do : manage with the limited or inadequate means available:
Dad has to make do with an old car because he lost his job.

Sensor (n) device that gets data
The sensor has a battery that lasts for 7 days.
Automatic doors use a proximity sensor to automate the opening and the closing when people arrive

Placebo (n) a pill without any real medicine
We gave the patient a placebo and he thought it was real and said he felt better.

Bracelet (n) something you wear on your wrist
I bought a gold bracelet for her birthday