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The 7th week was marked with the final preparations for the CAE for which I had to go to London, which was completly different then Bristol since everything was bigger and took you a bigger amount of time to get there.
The Exam went quite well (without knowing the results) but was tiring, since the three paper based parts were more or less non stop following each other. The woman I had the speaking exam with was originaly from spain, but spent her last 15 years living in London. She told me, that she is going to retourn to spain in the following week since the rents in London have risen enormously in the last years and as a single mother working in the health sector it has gotten harder and harder over her time in London. Because her son wanted to see his homecountry and their living standarts would be better back in spain.
Since it was beginning of november you saw an increasing amount of red poppies. I learned from my hostmother that they are a symbol for the fallen soldiers in the worldwars, because they where the only flowers growing in the trenches of france during the first world war. After the war there were a lot of seriously injured and/or traumaticed soldiers coming back home and so there was a charity group founded to support these people by selling poppies for the 11. of november, which is one of their most important national dates, as it's the day when worldwar one ended and every year the remember their fallen soldiers in two minutes of silence.
A person I generally had good discussions and talks with was my host Jack. He's originally from Marrocco and has been living in the UK for about the last 40 years. Despite his family trying to avoid having longer talks with him (can easyly go for multiple hours) I really enjoyed these, because of his background, he had a lot of different point of view regarding states and politics particularly about the middle east and north africa. But one the things he said which surprised me the the most were his relativly harsh words about young immigrants in some part of the city, which he thought got in some cases to much government support so the end up for the rest of their life living in social housing or similar things.
Some new expressions I learned at the school where: to talk down on so., to take pride in sth, to write away for sth., don't run away with the idea and being in for bad weather
The Exam went quite well (without knowing the results) but was tiring, since the three paper based parts were more or less non stop following each other. The woman I had the speaking exam with was originaly from spain, but spent her last 15 years living in London. She told me, that she is going to retourn to spain in the following week since the rents in London have risen enormously in the last years and as a single mother working in the health sector it has gotten harder and harder over her time in London. Because her son wanted to see his homecountry and their living standarts would be better back in spain.
Since it was beginning of november you saw an increasing amount of red poppies. I learned from my hostmother that they are a symbol for the fallen soldiers in the worldwars, because they where the only flowers growing in the trenches of france during the first world war. After the war there were a lot of seriously injured and/or traumaticed soldiers coming back home and so there was a charity group founded to support these people by selling poppies for the 11. of november, which is one of their most important national dates, as it's the day when worldwar one ended and every year the remember their fallen soldiers in two minutes of silence.
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| A red poppy, like the ones sold before 11th november |
Some new expressions I learned at the school where: to talk down on so., to take pride in sth, to write away for sth., don't run away with the idea and being in for bad weather
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