- 8月 28 週四 200823:43
♣ RFQ高雄聚首日
- 7月 17 週四 200814:56
♣ The twelfth day in Manchester (7/17 Thu)
In the morning, RFQ has a date to TSB banck to exchange cheque into cash for our London Trip at 10 o'clock.
But I am late for this date, because I get up late at 9 o'clock. I prepare my postcard which is I write at yesterday night and I will go to poast office which is the nearest to my home to send it !
The next bus will coming at fourteen minutes past ten, so I am late for our dat definitely.
When I arrive Piccadilly Garden, the time is near a quarter to eleven. Idon't see any members of RFQ in there, so I just to change cheque by myself and take bus NO.142 go back to language school when I exchange successfully.
F and Q are in school when I go to school's restaurant. Q says she didn't go to TSB to exhange because of she forgetting, but F had exchanged by herself.
Then we start to our first class, we have lunch in school's restaurant and talk about the Tour schedule of London with teacher.
When finish our lunch, we take today's last class and in the end of class a few minutes, Suddenly, the fire alarm is ringing.
We run away from class room slowly, because we have a lot things must to clear away. It's an exercise to protect every- one have alert to escape from school when fire happend.
After class, RFQ go to Piccadilly Garden to exchange cheque, shopping in China Town and go to skate board to see sombody are take skateboarding.
Today is a nice day !
- 7月 16 週三 200814:19
♣ The eleventh day in Manchester (7/16 Wed)
In the morning, I go to language school with my Chinese roommate who is called Kevin.
We take bus NO.44 which is driving the different route to school, when we arrive, we eat breakfast firstly, but I just order a cup of hot chocolate to warm up my body.
There is a cold weather in the morning, this is the reason why I take this choice.
Today's lecture course is about Animation of Manchester, it's very boring to us, so we just to play truant during the intermission.
We go back to school's restaurant for our lunch and wait for next class at five to two for iLab course to surf the Internet.
When we finish tody's class, F and I take the bus NO.142 to Piccadilly Garden for my weekly bus ticket which is invalid.
Because Q will go back to home to wash her clothes, so she don't come City Centre with us.
We go to China Town to buy something and to compare price of goods. There are three supermarkets in that area which are called 永發行、和生行and恒運行.
The price of goods in three supermarkets are different to each other, so you must make sure what kind of merchandises you want to buy, then go to crrect supermarket.
Due to I want to eat Plum, so I spend 65 pennies for 甘草梅.
We pass through a grocery store and I glance at two pieces of post card spend me 70 pennies, because I ready to use them to write the message to my family and relation.
Finally, we go back home individually!
- 7月 15 週二 200813:55
♣ The tenth day in Manchester (7/15 Tue)
RFQ had make a date to exchange cheque into cash at 10 o'clock on today's morning.
But my passport is give teacher that can safe keeping, so I must go to school to take back my passport from Teacher.
Teacher is coming school at a quarter to ten, so I'm late for date with FQ.
The time is near 10 o'clock when I arrive Piccadilly Garden, F is the first one to bank and Q is the last one.
Then we start to exchange the cheque, because my poor listening skill to lead to that I don't know what the attendant says.
When we exchange successfully, we go back to school and wait for our first class.
There are many new comers to join our class today that class has full gains.
After class, we go to Sainsbury's to buy something which are we needed, and then, we go home individually.
- 7月 14 週一 200823:05
♣ The ninth day in Manchester (7/14 Mon)
今天早上先到language school集合，用完早餐(cheese ham and hot chocolate)便到activity office to ask tour of London要價120pounds的trip，看起來很貴，但這樣的price已經算是cheeap了，If you want to go to London by yourself with the schedule which is you arrange，還得自己訂車票，plan own schedule and make a reservation for hostel。
過程及手續are so complicated，不如就decide to join school's 三天兩夜的行程吧! 雖然自行排行程會有很多的收穫，但我覺得我們沒這麼多的時間去排行程。
學校的120pounds費用包住包車費不包吃及個人玩樂，既然money都花在刀口上了，就要痛快的玩，不過今天只是先報名，旅費要等明天換旅支再繳了，因為身上的現金不夠~
因為Monday也就是today不用上課，所以RFQ先take bus NO.142到Piccaddily Garden，很巧的才剛下車，bus NO.250就緊接著來了，上車之後問了一位華人要在哪站下車才能到達Manchester United FootballField，某個呆子還直接用中文問「您會講中文嗎?」= - = 真是笑料十足!
到了Manchester United Football Field後，先買入場券，因為本人我have no International Student Identity Card (SCSI)，所以要付12pounds而不是8pounds，整整差了4pounds，快破產了我!
Ticket有分Museum, Museum and Tour的種類，Tour正可以到football field參觀拍照and have tour guide，逛完Museum後，還在找Tour是在哪，原本該10點50分進去參觀的，但我們根本沒注意到時間，所以和服務人員說了一下便延到了下一場12點30分進入。
在等的期間還遇到了teacher and other people who are in our study travel troup! 而且他們全部都○為有老師帶就有8pounds一張票的discount，早知道就該和老師go together!! = =+
曼聯球場真的super big!壯觀的場地，超cool，看到球場時，感覺就能聽到支持球迷的歡呼加油聲呢!
此行程finish後便到Trafford centre去逛逛，繼續搭250前往，有一段距離的shopping mall。
先到美食廣場覓食止餓! 選了又是炸物的KFC分享餐一起share，原本以為會吃不飽的，結果還蠻飽的! 之後和teacher一起到The Body Shop去買東西，店員very kind還送我們一人一包試用品，之後逛了一些店，覺得merchandise so expensive that we can't shopping continually, so we take bus NO.250回Piccaddily Garden去逛一下PRIMARK，買了一隻3pounds的umbrella，因為我自以為原本從台灣帶來的不見了，之後RFQ便各take bus and go home，回到家後才發現原有的umbrella還躺在我的backpack裡。
所以我就把new umbrella以賣給室友kevin who is from China，剛好kevin no umbrella can use!
今天還把last week沒寫完的jounal給over掉，so tired!!!!
寫完便睡覺了~
- 7月 13 週日 200822:51
♣ The eighth day in Manchester (7/13 Sun)
今天和昱彤及佳伶及他們的roommate is from Japan go to city centre shopping，9點到達Piccadily Garden，等著等著，
看到了佳伶明顯的紅色外套就知道她來了，會合後先到Caffeè Nero去喝杯hot chocolate要價2pounds，風味不如路邊餐車的1pound hot chocolate，而且可以喝2杯呢~
聊一下天，之後便到邊的PRIMARK shopping，PRIMARK有點像台灣那種批發衣服的商店，價格還在合理可接受的範圍，不過衣服的質感比台灣的批發商高了一些，之後買了一件15pounds的外套和2.5pounds的black休閒褲以及2pounds的神秘souvenir，到現在還在想適合bring to Taiwan的souvenir，要找到appropriate souvenir真的需要花一些時間，
最後我們竟然和日本friends get lost，逛完PRIMARK後便到其它地方亂逛，果然，能買下手的store只有PRIMARK，
Lunch到city centre的美食廣場吃Pizza Hut的Combo with four fries, one salad and four cups of beverage which can refill.
既好吃又飽，而且又能一起share錢，哪像星期五在同個廣場吃得roast potato，吃到快昏倒了!
Many stores are very expensive, but t-shirt and shoes are very good-looking!!
Today is very tired because of shopping~
Today is a funny, satisfied with shopping day!!!!
- 7月 12 週六 200821:54
♣ The seventh day in Manchester (7/12 Sat)
It's very strange that I have class on Saturday!
Because language school wants to separate students into two groups on Saturday and Monday when go to school.
Due to this reason, I have no class on Monday instead of Saturday.
今天8點45分就有first class，所以蠻早就到了school去，
8點45分一到就先連上了2節課，接著就又是空了2堂課，直到13點55分才有1堂iLab
在學校餐廳剛好遇到了昱彤和Tina老師，於是邊吃起午餐邊聊天。
時間過得很快，馬上就到了iLab的上課時間，上課時間不免就是上網收信、聽music，接著go home to wash my clothes!
- 7月 11 週五 200821:40
♣ The sixth day in Manchester (7/11 Fri)
今天上完早上8點45分的主修課後，中間隔了4堂課，一直到了下午3點25分才有選修課要上，所以就和昱彤及佳伶一起到city centre逛逛
午餐也在那的美食廣場解決掉，在英國Manchester的食物大部分都是炸物，再加上外國人其名的都不愛吃蔬菜，我真的是快抓狂了，害我到這又長了痘子，這就是唯一最讓我不習慣的飲食習慣，其它的都還OK!
這也導致我這星期有便秘的現象，恨不得快拉死我吧! 一次完全解放(seems like complian too much....)
主要是午餐點了3.99pounds的烤馬鈴薯with噁爛的佐醬，單調的味道吃到快吐了! 連唯一支持著我吃下去的潤滑劑「coke」者瞬間被我over掉，最後potato也沒吃完一一|||
後來從city centre用步行的到Museum of Manchester，途中因為眼殘而和Museum擦身而過，以firend找了一位handsome man問路，不是我在誇張，foreigner走路速度快，maybe是因為腿長的關係吧?!
我們整個跟不上他的腳步，只好請他walk slower，外國人都很nice，問路都解說的很詳細，又會帶路，如果真的不知道路就說不知道，不會裝作知道而報錯路。
Museum有很多關於埃及的東西和許多動物的逼真標本，結果因為記錯上課的時間，所以就late for first class at 3:55 on afternoon，只好第二堂再進教室了。
上IELTS的classmates大部分好像是進修的成年南，感覺上課的態度非常的積極主動，而老師說的English有時聽得懂，有時聽不懂，有些困擾，希望下星期會get better!
上完課到同團學員們的domitory吃晚餐，所有boys下壓給girls和我這年紀稍長的大哥吃，煮得還不錯吃噢!有當家庭煮夫的潛力!
晚上8點半搭142回homeStay，走半小時才能到家，今天還真累!
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