A few of my most prized adult students.
The princess...
Her name is Mia. She has crazy artsy hippie rich parents.
She owns a horse...in Shanghai. No one owns horses in Shanghai. She works for a French luxury brand doing business development. (This basically means she meets people and have dinner and tell them to buy her company's brand because its popular and its the "in" thing to do). She has a friend that collects (yes like baseball cards and coins for normal folks) 1000+ year old houses all over China, disassembles them and meticulously puts them back together with a team of people on her huge plot of land that she is currently hiding from the Chinese government...
Mia is married to a guy that agrees with them living apart (she lives in shanghai and he lives in Wuhan that is 5 hours away). Next year she wants to have a kid, because she is bored with life and a kid would give her something to do (not joking her words). She is currently looking into going into the television industry, because she thinks its as easy as saying it and she knows people...
The sort of Canadian...Branda
She's a 46 year old property developer in Shanghai with a husband (works for a Japanese company in Vancouver. Which means she doesn't really need to work but because she needs something to do, she flies back and forth from Canada and China) and 16 year old daughter. Because she wants to get a job in Canada, and her English isn't very good, she started having lessons with me. Her and her family emigrated to Vancouver 5 years ago. Because her daughter and husband make her feel bad about her English level she is now seriously trying to improve her oral English. She keeps asking me to help her with her driving. I tell her NO! She has failed the the Canadian drivers test 8 times in 4 different cities all over Canada, yet she drives in Shanghai...that should tell you something for sure about the driving standards here in China.
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