XIII. Letters from College

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 455.

Enlarge the text and speak on the topic: I'm a student of the Academy of Tourism.

Dear John,

I meant to write you at once, but it took me rather long to get used to College life. College is a very big place and at first I got lost almost every time I left my room. Things are much easier now and I hope you'll look me up some day and let me walk you about.

The trouble with College is that they expect you to know such a lot of things you have never learnt. To be quite honest, I never knew I was so much behind the others. It'll take me month of real hard work to catch up with the fellows!

I made an awful mistake the very first day. Did you hear of Michael Angelo? I didn't.

He was a famous artist who lived in Italy in the Middle Ages. Everybody in English Literature knew about him and the whole class laughed because I thought he was an archangel.

We've been studying hard all through the term. Now that the exams have started, it's got even worse. You know what happened? I failed in mathematics. It wasn't really my fault, it was just bad luck. I'll be taking another exam next month. I'll do my best to pass.

Now, more news coming, if you are still interested. They have organized a Freshmanbasketball team and I'm joining it. There'll be a sports competition at the end of the term and I hope I'll be good enough to take part in it.

That's all for now. Hope to hear from you soon, Dan.

Vocabulary:

To get used-привыкнуть

It takes me much time- у меня уходит много времени..

Fault- вина