A student from London

Hi everybody!

Today a young student from London visited us in our English lesson. Her name is Elise and she lives in Basingstoke. Basingstoke is a city which is 30 minutes away from London. Elise is 20 years old and she has a younger sister. Her mother is from France and her dad is from England.
She has been in Austria for one month now and she speaks English, French and German.
She has studied for three years at Worcester College which means that she has to study for one more year. In Oxford there are 36 colleges and every college has an own library.
It is amazing how expensive studying in Oxford is. If you study one year at an university you have to pay 10.000 pounds. At Worcester College the students wear an uniform if they have an exam.
The uniform is called Sub Fusc.

I liked the lesson very much and I hope we will have a lesson like this again. ;)


#JR6

Neighbours from hell!

Hi everybody,

Last week I watched a video on "You Tube" and it was about an estate agent who wanted to sell a house. Next to this house lived a man who did everything to avoid getting new neighbours.

I thought you might be interested because it is frightening how bad people can stand each other.

Basically what the man says is that he was the first who settled at this place. So it is "his place".

What shocked me most was that the neighbour wrote down all bad attributes that a neighbour can have. For instance he wrote on a big sign: "Loud Parties, Loud Music, Loud Cars, 3 Rottweilers, 1 Horse and Fireworks."

I agree with the estate agent that the offered house will never be sold because of the awful neigbour.

What do YOU think? Here's the link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMbAOmRe5q0