I went to London last semester for a short internship,
but at the same time, I thought that take English classes was a good idea. Then
I took some IELTS classes at the University.
On my first day of classes, the teacher (an aggressive
woman from Australia named Zohar), gave us a talk about the time to arrive to
class, she said that we must be five minutes before the class started, if we were
on time it was ok, she could understood if someday we arrived five minutes
later because we had a mishap, but after that we could wait for the next lesson,
then we must to be there at 9:10 a.m. The second day I woke up and looked at my
watch (my watch still was in the Colombian time) and I thought: “I am late for
my English class, I have to hurry up”. I took a shower as fast as I could and
ran to the tube. When I arrived to the classroom, nobody was in the classroom.
After that I went upstairs to read the table and read the class hours and the
classroom and it match with the classroom when I had been at 9:15 a.m. Then I
decided to return to the classroom and verify if the teacher didn’t leave some
note about a change of classroom. When I returned to the classroom, the
security guy, a nice guy from Uganda, asked me if I needed something. He went
with me to the table and we searched my name and went with me downstairs to the
classroom and he told me: “This is your classroom, your first lesson starts at
9:15 a.m. now is 8:20, and then you have to wait for your class”. This moment I
just realised I was misjudging London time. I had an egg on my face, it was
really embarrassing.
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