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I always want to see ballet performance in London, so it did have an amazing Swan Lake of English National Ballet at London Coliseum. I asked my girl friend Nicole to join me and we were right on time to … Continue reading
The best way to enjoy the summer is to go to beach and enjoy the sun. UK actually has a lot of beaches and sea-side towns, because it is a big island surrounding the sea. Since we are living in Yorkshire, Scarborough in North Yorkshire is the best holiday beach destination.
We drove 2 hours to reach Scarborough. My first impression of it was ” wow, my god, it was so stunning pretty”. We walked alone the beach, and saw that people were sunbathing, kids were making castles in the beach. It was an amazing to relax and be with your family.
You can easily buy any sea food such as lobster or big crabs for under £5. I forgot to buy one when we were back home. We ate really fresh cod fish and chip for lunch. The fish meat was so tasty and fresh, and I who was grown up by the coastal city girl, could tell the difference from sea fish and normal fish.
John said while we were in Scarborough, we could also visit Robin Hood Bay and Whitby. Robin Hood Bay is even smaller than Scarborough, just a small coastal village. Luckily we saw some dance performances of old village tradition. It was amazing and fun to experience.
Whitby like Scarborough is so pretty and felt like you were living in fairy Tale story. All the houses and colourful roofs, boats and yachts did look like Scandinavia style, don’t you think? I did feel like I was in another country rather than in the UK. It was very different of architectures and atmosphere. I did enjoy North Yorkshire so much – peaceful, quite, good quality of life. However, it properly might be a little bit bored for young people.
We drove back home from Whitby through North Yorkshire Moors, and it was so pretty inside the moors. It felt like we were in some forests and so stunning beautiful. The weather was hot with blue sky all day long, that’s why we got some amazing pictures.
You should see all the pictures we took in Scarborough beach and Whitby, and I am sure you will fall in love with them.
It is getting hotter in July, and it feels like the proper Summer now. It is sunny all the time, and the temperature is around 18-25 degrees – perfect summer temperature for me, not that sweaty, but nice with cool breeze. We decided to do a home-made cocktail at the weekend, so we tried the Pimm’s with a lot ice, lemonade, strawberries, few orange and little mint. It tasted gorgeous and nice pretty red colour for summer drink.
It is the perfect fruity drink in Summer time. I was sitting my lounge chair in our balcony and sun bathing at the weekend, drinking the Pimm’s and listening to some chill out music.
What a wonderful weekend. We will try Gin and Tonic next week. Happy life.
It is incredible sunny and hot (about 25 degrees) in these two days, and it feels like properly summer with the hot heat. We decided to walk down to the canal and had a picnic in Kirkstall Abbey museum at the weekend. The Abbey was built in 12th century, and sadly was destroyed by Henry VIII when he reformed all the Catholic churches in 14th century.
You can see that the church was enormous, but only half left behind and preserved it, so I needed to touch the stones and felt I touched something so old and valuable. It was really nice to imagine how did normal people live in that era?
It was so peaceful and natural surrounding by the canal and parks. People were sunbathing, and enjoyed the great day of summer with their friends. What a wonderful weather and a fantastic day!
It’s end of June. I have been working hard in the job and it seems that life stuck into the routine when you have jobs. The jobs are very challenging and you never know what will happen for a day, it might so busy or quite – it always makes your heart jump! Friends were back to their countries but I miss them.
The great news of this year is that John works for WordPress – ( is a free and open source blog publishing application and Content Management System) as a software engineer and working something creative and challenge. Besides, my website is using WordPress anyway, so I treated him a big dinner and celebrated with him.
Last weekend we travelled to Sheffield to visit John’s family and had a good time. Recently my health is invading by virus and I have been suffering a lot. I hope it went away soon so that I can enjoy the summer!
六月末
不知不觉就到了6月末，一直努力的工作着，工作就象打仗，你永远不知道今天的挑战是什么。朋友们回他们国家了，蛮想念和他们一起呼哈的日子。约翰给美国三藩市一家最大的网络公司 WordPress 高薪聘请去当程序工程师，（中国阻止了wordpress 网站，所以大家打不开的）一年3次去三藩市开会的机会，我要去！我为他感到骄傲和高兴，好像和一个名人约会一样。这是他梦想的工作，感觉我们一步步的为生活努力着，一年年总有惊喜发现，有低谷的时候，又有高峰开心的日子，这就是生活。
上周回英国北部谢菲尔看约翰家人，一起度过快乐的周末。希望身体健康和好好享受这个夏天！
After all the exams finished, I had been trying to find a part-time job during this summer holiday. It was quite hard and I guess there are many competitions in London. Over few days out for hunting jobs, and submitted over 100 copies of resumes, luckily, I had several interviews, however, employers were keen to have full-time employees rather then part-time.
However, today it was my happiest day. After 3 interviews, one was offering me on the spot, and another one called me back today and said I was hired out of 3 competitors. Moreover, I went to school to pick up my final transcript, and I was nominated by the tutor that I was the best student in the class, and received 25 pounds for buying book. I was so thrilled in a day, and I felt that my hard working finally rewarded it.
I will work hard and meet more new people. At the first time, I felt like I am part of this country rather than being a student or a visitor. Everyone was so happy for me and me too. Life is not easy, but I will find a way to fight for it and enjoy it.
一份新工作，一份不同经历
自从5月底所有考试结束后，2个星期都在不断努力为这个夏天找兼职。一切都不容易啊，虽然伦敦遍地是机会，但因为大家都知道，所以更多的竞争着来自世界各地，加上欧洲国家的人都纷纷来伦敦工作。简历都投递了超过100份，也有了几份面试的机会，但他们大多要求一年4季长期工作，而不止是兼职。
但今天是我的最幸运的一天，昨天有3份面试哦，时间都安排的蛮紧的，第1份说很喜欢我，但他们希望我能全职，第2份工作在面试就说马上请我，周一上班，第3份工作今天打电话说请我，（面试时候见过3个和我竞争的对手，显然我打败她们）我十分开心，当然我选择个最合适我的。惊奇的另一件事是，今天去学校拿最后的成绩单，不但我考得蛮不错的成绩，一打开信封，教授提名我最佳的学生，奖励我25英镑买书卷呢。哦，天啊，又找到兼职，又有奖励，我的心甜过蜜糖呢！整天都超级开心，真的很想大喊几声，谢谢自己一年来这么努力，很辛苦很辛苦的付出才拿到好成绩的！来之不易啊！大家别看我吃吃玩玩的多，辛苦的时候超级辛苦，压力十分大，只是没有和大家说而已。不过我十分满意我这1年来的付出和努力！常言道，生命短暂，辛苦时候还是要努力享受生活的。
我会好好努力工作，同时也认识多点新朋友。第一次感觉到自己不只是这个城市的游客或过客，而是真正的生活在伦敦！谢谢大家的支持和鼓励哦，让我们为生活继续努力吧！
I do enjoy the sunny day and hot temperature in London, and it is hot, but as humid as China. I asked friends to come to my house and made some cakes together before they fly back to HK and Japan. We bought so many ingredients and made the pumpkin pie and chocolate trifle cake.
Vicky and Miwa enjoyed making cakes and we had so much fun, even though Vicky had some flower everywhere, and Miwa dropped an egg on the floor, it’s part of the fun and experience with friends. After 2 hours hard work, we ordered Papajohn’s pizza and watched some girl’s movie – He is not in too you. Then drinking and chatting until 1 am.
I enjoy the quality time with friends here in Summer day, cool breeze, hot sun, summer clothes, cool beer, good food and good accompany, then what a happy weekend. Here are some of our latest pictures.
I have been working hard to find a part-time job, had 2 interviews yesterday, but we will see the results and I have work harder hunting on Monday. Tonight we will see Keane and Ladyhawke’s concert in Shepherd Bush, I am so looking forward to seeing them.
一个休闲的夏天
喜欢伦敦夏天的阳光，大大的太阳，感觉很热但风是凉爽的。虽然热，但不至于流汗，不过市中心因人多，汽车多，所以就超热，但没有广州那么潮湿，干爽天气。下周大家都快回各自的国家了，所以我叫泳棋和美和，来我家齐齐动手做蛋糕和派，我们买和超级多材料，做我们之前做过的南瓜派和巧克力莫丝。
泳棋和美和一起搓面粉啊，切南瓜，虽然他们都是第一次亲自烤蛋糕，泳棋把厨房搞得到处是面粉，美和把蛋掉到地上，这些都是开心的片刻，和他们一起享受生活美食的经历。经过2个小时的辛苦准备，终于完成了我们的派和巧克力蛋糕，然后我们叫了papajohn的pizza，一起看电影，甜点就是我们的派和蛋糕拉。
我十分享受夏天的凉风，热太阳，夏天的短裤，好朋友一起吃喝一起笑，轻松的夏天周末就这样过！这里是我们的最新照片。
我在努力找兼职呢，昨天有2份面试，不知道成不成功，英国兼职很难找啊，很多欧洲人来竞争，加上金融风暴，好在伦敦到处都是机会，周一再接再厉。今晚去听Keane 和 Ladyhawke的演唱会，约翰喜欢ladyhawke，等待疯狂的激情的夜晚终于来了。
Summer has gone and now it is Autumn! I have noticed that people have changed in autumn clothes, wearing sunglass and having a suntan! I need to apologies to all my friends that I haven’t been updating my blog for sometimes. I have been so busy on Octorber, such as wedding, birthdays and parties, but I had a fantastic time with friends.
Recently, I try to get used to the new job as well as the new colleagues. Another good news is that eventually I am able to get my university degree certificate regardless how hard I worked for it. However, I still need to work hard on my English by reading more novels or practice more. I am glad that I am making progress slowly in my life.
I am trying my best to be a good colleague, good girlfriend, good friend, good daughter (sometimes I’m not good enough at all), good charming Carmen…
