Chinese: um hi my participant number is c three three p one

Chinese: and my participant number is three uh c c c three three p two

Chinese: okay i will start um with the passage um please call stella ask her to bring these things with her from the store six spoons of fresh snow peas five thick slabs of blue cheese and maybe a snack from for her brother bob we also need a small plastic snack and a big toy frog for the kids she can scoop these things into three red bags and we will go meet her wednesday at the train station

Chinese: uh please call stella ask her to bring these things with her from the store six spoons of fresh snow peas five thick slabs of blue cheese and maybe a snack for her brother bob we also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids she can scoop these things into three red bags and we will go meet her wednesday at the train station

Chinese: okay <laugh> we should start our conversation

Chinese: mm hmm

Chinese: yeah um

Chinese: so what did you do yesterday after i got back

Chinese: okay what did i do uh uh i don't <laugh> really remember um

Chinese: did you watch any anime or

Chinese: <laugh> oh yeah i i start watching the the the netflix film the imitation game you

Chinese: oh i recommended it

Chinese: yeah you recommended it and i just start watching it and don't finish it i haven't finished it yet it has it's two hours long so i just like watch half of it and then i start because it's late and i just start um prepare to go to bed <laugh>

Chinese: <laugh> so what time did you go to bed

Chinese: what

Chinese: what time did you go to bed

Chinese: what time um i think it's it's pretty early <laugh> i usually uh go to bed uh it's like eleven eleven thirty

Chinese: oh yeah

Chinese: yeah i read a book um before i fall asleep

Chinese: well i read one page of the book

Chinese: what

Chinese: just one page

Chinese: oh yeah just one page

Chinese: that's like the everyday activity <laugh>

Chinese: yes an everyday activity i do this <laugh> one day per day one page per day

Chinese: yes

Chinese: what did you do after you got back to your home

Chinese: uh i just (()) finding my keys

Chinese: uh huh yeah

Chinese: and i failed <laugh> and i think i just wait until monday and report to the reception that i have appointment

Chinese: oh yeah

Chinese: and maybe pay there some money

Chinese: oh yeah

Chinese: but then today the email came

Chinese: mm hmm that's good that's the email from my from my gmail i mean i received the email as well i think they just um they just forwarded it to all the participants of that conference

Chinese: but the first line says says uh dear all so all the participants would receive

Chinese: yeah and i know someone who lost their her key

Chinese: yeah

Chinese: and like

Chinese: it's like clock <overlap>

Chinese: <laugh> yeah oh it's good that you uh they reach out to you

Chinese: it's

Chinese: yeah so when do you plan to just gather your key back

Chinese: uh around four p m

Chinese: around four p m so you just go to the there to pick up your key and

Chinese: uh i will meet her at the main library gate

Chinese: ah

Chinese: i think it's

Chinese: that's good

Chinese: easier to find

Chinese: oh so you will go there by bus

Chinese: of course

Chinese: of course

Chinese: i don't know how to recognize her as we haven't met before

Chinese: oh yeah it could be difficult but maybe you can find her by just someone that is kind of uh trying to find someone

Chinese: yeah

Chinese: looking for someone that that's by her that stays by her uh

Chinese: wait for expressions

Chinese: yeah wait for the expressions yeah

Chinese: mm she didn't give me her phone number so i can i can only contact her by email

Chinese: email

Chinese: yeah

Chinese: mm hmm but there won't be many people around there right

Chinese: yes

Chinese: it's library

Chinese: mm hmm

Chinese: it's library and it's saturday and it's it's the end of semester <laugh> everyone finished their final exams now

Chinese: nobody have any exams <laugh>

Chinese: yeah no one has no one i don't know maybe some poor little <laugh>

Chinese: post graduate students

Chinese: uh yeah

Chinese: working on their thesis

Chinese: oh yeah

Chinese: mm hmm so

Chinese: so uh when you were a kid what kind of games what kinds of games did you did you used to play is there one you remember well

Chinese: uh i think the first game i played on a uh on a htc phone i remember

Chinese: htc phone

Chinese: it's temple run

Chinese: temple run oh yeah right everyone played it

Chinese: yes

Chinese: it's very popular here it's three dollar on the phone

Chinese: i remember that

Chinese: so everyone were like just

Chinese: yes

Chinese: yeah so everyone just uh see it on their phone and start playing it

Chinese: yeah every time i went to the apple store

Chinese: oh

Chinese: i would play games on their phone <laugh>

Chinese: yeah i remember the plants vs zombies <laugh> it's something that

Chinese: plants vs zombies <laugh>

Chinese: yeah it's something that everyone played once

Chinese: yeah i still have it on my computer now

Chinese: oh right oh

Chinese: i have (())

Chinese: my mother played my mother was (()) was (()) even more than me you know she finished all the all the stages

Chinese: oh

Chinese: <no-speech> stages um some of my classmates in high school they even played when they were really yeah they played on class

Chinese: oh oh last year when i was in uh high school after the eleven exams i played that game with my friends

Chinese: oh

Chinese: on my xbox

Chinese: it's classic <laugh>

Chinese: yeah i also watched some of the videos on bilibili

Chinese: ah

Chinese: about those games and uh modifications ones

Chinese: modifications

Chinese: yeah

Chinese: uh so it's like different versions of it like <overlap>

Chinese: they also changed the game by theirselves <laugh> <overlap>

Chinese: <overlap> oh changed the game by theirself oh so they can like play some subgames i don't know that was a (()) by some some creator implemented inside the the game

Chinese: yeah oh i know how they say it

Chinese: <laugh> it sounds cool

Chinese: awesome i think the first time i played this game was in primary school when my uncle came to my grandpa's house

Chinese: ah

Chinese: he showed me how to play the game

Chinese: ah i don't remember when when i first played this game i just think uh it's like preinstalled on my ipad and i got my ipad like um also in my also while i was in my primary school it's like six seven years old

Chinese: mm hmm

Chinese: uh

Chinese: that's grade one i think

Chinese: everyone loves it

Chinese: yeah

Chinese: also minecraft um

Chinese: oh minecraft

Chinese: minecraft

Chinese: every time i went to my visit my friends

Chinese: yeah

Chinese: and classmates we always play it together

Chinese: ah that's very interesting

Chinese: yeah

Chinese: but i don't while i was playing it i don't have friends play with me and when some of my friends start playing it um i just don't play it anymore

Chinese: so which kind of uh mode do you prefer the survival one

Chinese: i think

Chinese: or the creative one

Chinese: i think the creative one

Chinese: oh

Chinese: the other one

Chinese: same for me <laugh> because i always get scared by those those zombies before

Chinese: yeah zombies uh lots of different and scary creatures

Chinese: <overlap> oh yeah

Chinese: oh yeah by using creative mode you can build houses you can build different kind of

Chinese: building

Chinese: yeah

Chinese: there are many videos on bilibili and youtube as well

Chinese: oh yeah yeah i've watched them

Chinese: they help you build houses

Chinese: yeah

Chinese: kind of using those different kind of decorations

Chinese: oh yeah i think i watched someone that used the minecraft to build a computer i mean they build

Chinese: oh <laugh>

Chinese: from some like something like the uh from a very simple circuit how do they even <laugh> how is that even possible i don't know maybe they're just very familiar with the computer very familiar with some guides some computer guides

Chinese: mm hmm

Chinese: the basic logic behind it and they just

Chinese: yeah it must be very hard

Chinese: and the part it's a i think it's an undergraduate student and he published a paper based on this <laugh>

Chinese: oh that's interesting and tricky <laugh>

Chinese: yeah

Chinese: mm let me think about other games uh <laugh>

Chinese: uh other games

Chinese: uh some small games um four three nine nine

Chinese: four three nine nine <laugh>

Chinese: yeah

Chinese: so it's a chinese website that has many

Chinese: small games

Chinese: yeah similar games on it and yeah but i can't give it it's difficult for me to describe any of them

Chinese: uh the fireboy and watergirl <overlap>

Chinese: oh <laugh> yeah

Chinese: they were at the <overlap> <laugh>

Chinese: so you just use the keystrokes to control um the fireboy or watergirl and um

Chinese: yeah roughly

Chinese: yeah yes together to accomplish some tasks

Chinese: i remembered when i was six years old i live in my grandma's house and we

Chinese: mm hmm

Chinese: played together <laugh>

Chinese: ah the the first time i played this is while i visit my friend and she showed me the four three nine nine website i find this very interesting um and the first thing we played together is the fire fire what fireboy and

Chinese: watergirl

Chinese: watergirl yeah <laugh>

Chinese: yeah um

Chinese: sometimes uh like in the computer class in primary school people would

Chinese: oh

Chinese: <overlap> just playing games under the nose of teachers

Chinese: yeah but our systems has the detection you know

Chinese: oh

Chinese: the kind of things you do we'll review on the computer <laugh>

Chinese: ah that's sad

Chinese: yes we can only play games after we've done all the homework

Chinese: oh is after all you can play after uh you have done your work you can play

Chinese: mm hmm

Chinese: mm hmm

Chinese: so

Chinese: uh

Chinese: did you play a sport or have another hobby when you are young

Chinese: oh i played did i play a sport <laugh> uh i i learned to dance uh from like the first year of my primary school

Chinese: oh

Chinese: to the like um to the fourth or fifth year and then i never dance anymore <laugh>

Chinese: oh because of the

Chinese: maybe because of the pressure

Chinese: pressure oh yeah

Chinese: yeah of just studying and learning and preparing for exams and everything about the

Chinese: hobbies like

Chinese: yeah then hobbies i uh do you have any do you did you play a sport or have any other hobby as a kid

Chinese: um i think the first hobby for me is playing piano

Chinese: piano

Chinese: mm hmm <overlap>

Chinese: actually i have learned piano when i was uh in when i was in the kinder kindergarten yeah

Chinese: oh

Chinese: and i only learned piano in kindergarten after i graduated from <laugh> when i say graduate i feel i graduated from the kindergarten i just give up everything

Chinese: oh

Chinese: i haven't touched it um anymore <laugh>

Chinese: um in kindergarten i think we play what is that called <laugh> uh the slides

Chinese: the slides

Chinese: yes

Chinese: the slides you mean the the powerpoint slides

Chinese: no no the slides you're just sliding from the top then to the ground

Chinese: sliding from oh i'm sorry <laugh> sorry for misinterpreting at least i <overlap>

Chinese: a long time after school my parents found found me on the slides <laugh>

Chinese: ah that could be interesting

Chinese: and we also have same class during primary school and kindergarten

Chinese: oh that's good same class la la la la <laugh>

Chinese: and i only played the piano for uh three years yes only three years

Chinese: oh i think you've done a really great job on it i re i forgot everything

Chinese: uh

Chinese: uh i played the piano for two years and i i just forgot everything

Chinese: <laugh> but my sister

Chinese: mm hmm

Chinese: well not my sister my cousin

Chinese: mm hmm

Chinese: she did a very great job on piano

Chinese: ah

Chinese: she got a grade seven certificate on piano

Chinese: wow that's impressive <laugh>

Chinese: but she didn't like studying at school she wants to go to uh music school instead

Chinese: oh

Chinese: but her parents didn't want that so it's very sad

Chinese: yeah that's very sad

Chinese: and now she didn't get into a university i don't know how

Chinese: oh

Chinese: did she she have planned for her future

Chinese: <laugh> mm i don't know either uh

Chinese: my brother started learning uh playing the guitar during university

Chinese: oh my high school classmate

Chinese: and i do think living in switzerland is too boring

Chinese: my classmate in high school also played guitar but uh not so good but still something

Chinese: i actually bought a guitar

Chinese: oh

Chinese: for the past two years i played them randomly when i want <laugh>

Chinese: ah that's nice

Chinese: yeah but it's but my finger always gets hurt

Chinese: ah

Chinese: a (()) and <overlap> yes

Chinese: do you bring the your guitar to uk

Chinese: uh no <laugh>

Chinese: ah i i know someone here that um bought a a bought a guitar a new guitar after arriving in the uk

Chinese: ah right okay (()) gets a guitar

Chinese: ah

Chinese: he gave it to another um senior classmate um by the time he planned to leave edinburg <laugh>

Chinese: ah

Chinese: but then he returned <laugh>

Chinese: yeah

Chinese: um <overlap>

Chinese: did you play

Chinese: <overlap> did you play any sports during primary or secondary school

Chinese: no i just prepare for exams prepare for exams

Chinese: for exams the exams the pe exam the pe exam after the preparation i played uh basketball

Chinese: oh

Chinese: yeah i just just played for the exam uh i don't seriously playing it for fun seriously play i just just

Chinese: um play with other players as a team

Chinese: no never

Chinese: yeah

Chinese: i just uh the exam content i just keep practicing it practicing

Chinese: mm hmm and i choose

Chinese: do you <overlap>

Chinese: i chose volleyball as my

Chinese: oh yeah

Chinese: yeah

Chinese: do do you play any

Chinese: um during primary school i always go uh went swimming

Chinese: mm hmm

Chinese: during the summer

Chinese: really

Chinese: but then i rarely go to the stadium <laugh>

Chinese: uh we have commonwealth through there uh the pool i in the school s stadium i think is always good is also good

Chinese: ah

Chinese: uh

Chinese: do you plan to go there one day

Chinese: maybe next month

Chinese: next month

Chinese: mm

Chinese: next month oof uh

Chinese: i'm registering for a membership card

Chinese: oh yeah that's great

Chinese: it's twenty two pounds per month

Chinese: twenty two

Chinese: yes

Chinese: twenty two twenty two pounds

Chinese: per month

Chinese: what else i can get from twenty two pounds <laugh> maybe like two meals

Chinese: uh

Chinese: mm i'm still thinking about it

Chinese: yeah

Chinese: because if i plan to go to visit other places then it's not worth the money <laugh>

Chinese: yeah

Chinese: mm

Chinese: mm budget statement <laugh>

Chinese: yes but my but my parents strongly suggest me to <laugh> go to the gym

Chinese: ah ah why

Chinese: mm to build up my body strength <laugh>

Chinese: ah

Chinese: stay healthy

Chinese: yeah because we just stay at home every day because of that maybe (())

Chinese: <laugh> yes

Chinese: uh

Chinese: i think walking on uh on the road is less effective than doing workout in the gyms

Chinese: of of course yeah

Chinese: but i prefer working

Chinese: uh i prefer working out a as well

Chinese: yes

Chinese: same um

Chinese: i think work workout in the gym is torture <laugh>

Chinese: yes uh i haven't been to gym but i can imagine it <laugh>

Chinese: uh i remember when i was in grade grade eleven or grade ten uh

Chinese: yeah

Chinese: i went to the local gym near to my home

Chinese: uh huh

Chinese: and my mother bought uh the kind of course

Chinese: mm hmm

Chinese: which is one to one course

Chinese: mm hmm

Chinese: and the teacher is very strict to me

Chinese: uh

Chinese: every time i went there first i will do one hour uh non oxygen workout

Chinese: no oxygen

Chinese: yeah

Chinese: i know i can get

Chinese: yes and then for another half an hour running or climbing exercise

Chinese: mm yeah

Chinese: and i and i got back home i was just <laugh> lying on the bed and can't do nothing

Chinese: uh yeah it sounds

Chinese: but it's really effective <laugh>

Chinese: uh i can't make it

Chinese: after two weeks or a month

Chinese: uh

Chinese: i kind of lose weight around four to five kilograms

Chinese: wow yeah that's really effective <laugh>

Chinese: and also my teacher uh forced me to eat less <laugh>

Chinese: ah

Chinese: and every meal i should take a photo for her and send to her

Chinese: oh god <laugh>

Chinese: it's so scary

Chinese: yes mm

Chinese: mm

Chinese: are you planning to go to other place

Chinese: no

Chinese: i mean not not these these days

Chinese: ah

Chinese: maybe june or july

Chinese: no i don't have any plan yet

Chinese: <laugh> do you wanna go to birmingham

Chinese: uh uh <laugh> i dunno i just i want to just reduce my spending <laugh>

Chinese: well i think the cost go to here is much less than london

Chinese: i know i know i get it uh but the trail the train the train still cost a lot

Chinese: oh yes mm hmm

Chinese: yeah

Chinese: maybe we should go to other place which is near edinburgh

Chinese: ah yeah then we can go there by bus <laugh>

Chinese: that sounds a little

Chinese: is that possible

Chinese: it's a little time consuming

Chinese: i know it's time consuming but it saves money <laugh> money and time

Chinese: mm

Chinese: a trade off

Chinese: i think we can go to glasgow by bus

Chinese: you have been to glasgow

Chinese: yes but i uh it's about six months ago

Chinese: six months ago and do you want to go there again do you want to visit there again do you find glasgow interesting

Chinese: yes <laugh> the university is very beautiful

Chinese: <laugh> the university

Chinese: yes and the uh last time i went went there and the gallery is closed

Chinese: ah

Chinese: mm so it's worth visiting again

Chinese: ah yeah perfect

Chinese: mm um

Chinese: mm

Chinese: i was gonna to the blackpool

Chinese: uh i'm thinking about it uh but i don't have such um interesting in the uh

Chinese: amusement park

Chinese: yeah i don't have such interest in interest in that yeah

Chinese: mm

Chinese: mm <no-speech> so do you want to go <laugh> to the park

Chinese: mm

Chinese: amusement park

Chinese: yes <laugh> i really want

Chinese: you really want to

Chinese: yes 'cause my 'cause my brother (()) came this june

Chinese: oh so he want to go now

Chinese: no no he doesn't want

Chinese: <laugh> he doesn't want

Chinese: he does plan to visit london

Chinese: ah he'll visit and london then you will go to london again

Chinese: yeah also for my visa appointment

Chinese: ah hundred pound

Chinese: another hundred pound hundred <laugh> everything is expensive

Chinese: yes

Chinese: um how many time we left <laugh>

Chinese: i don't know

Chinese: ah what shop we want to do we want to (())

Chinese: i'll i'll check how many minutes are recorded yet

Chinese: ah yeah

Chinese: so what's your favorite thing about edinburgh <laugh>

Chinese: my favorite thing about edinburgh edinburgh university <laugh> no i dunno maybe the environment

Chinese: mm hmm

Chinese: like i can see the arthur's seat just from my window

Chinese: yes

Chinese: it's very good

Chinese: mm

Chinese: like nature <laugh> and the um you can climb mountains you can just you you can go to the visit go to the seaside the the i i mean the

Chinese: enjoy the scenery

Chinese: yeah

Chinese: mm i think my favorite thing about edinburgh is the people around here

Chinese: ah

Chinese: it's much safer than living in london or other place in <no-speech>

Chinese: <laugh> you mean that

Chinese: yes we can go out later at night and i feel um <overlap>

Chinese: safe <laugh>

Chinese: to walk at to walk alone at night

Chinese: yeah people here are friendly

Chinese: mm much fri friendly

Chinese: much friendly <laugh> uh is there a particular food you used to eat at you used to like a a child do you know how to make it do you still like eating it now

Chinese: mm i think it must be tomato fried eggs <laugh>

Chinese: uh yeah

Chinese: yes

Chinese: i also like it i like every chinese food right now

Chinese: uh i remember when i was in grade eight

Chinese: i uh huh

Chinese: and uh i think it's around the mid autumn festival

Chinese: uh huh

Chinese: and our teacher assigned us a homework that we should learn how to cook our dish by ourselves <laugh>

Chinese: ah

Chinese: and we all must record a video

Chinese: oh

Chinese: and every time before we go to lunch <laugh> our teacher will randomly choose a video and

Chinese: allow allow us to <laugh> see all the classmates in

Chinese: and that was four months <laugh>

Chinese: oh

Chinese: so i think the conversation is now enough now

Chinese: good <laugh>

Chinese: so we should stop recording

Chinese: yeah i think so <laugh>

Chinese: uh