Long Listening · Section 2

Tracey‘s Life at University

Tracy is a 19-year-old student. She is from Scotland.

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Tracy is a 19-year-old student.
She is from Scotland.
She is studying fine arts at university
because she wants to be an artist.
Her university is in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.
So, at the moment, she is living in this city.
Tracy is not from Edinburgh.
She was born in a small village
an hour away from the city.
When she was younger, she always wanted to live in Edinburgh
because it is a very interesting and beautiful city.
She always visited with her parents when she was a child.
When she was three years old, she started to draw.
She was amazing at drawing and art in general,
so her parents took her to art classes.
At the school, she learned to paint and draw very well.
Her teacher always loved looking at her art.
When she was 18, she finished school
and wanted to go to university.
People told her that being a good and famous artist is very difficult.
But she loved art and she decided to study it anyway.
She goes to university in the afternoon from 8am to 2pm
and works in the evenings as a waitress.
She works in a small cafe.
The cafe sells drinks like coffee, tea,
and soft drinks like Coca-Cola or Fanta.
It also sells food like sandwiches, cakes and croissants.
Tracy doesn't like being a waitress
because in the evenings she is very tired from university
and there are a lot of customers in the cafe.
She is shy so she doesn't like talking to people a lot
so it's not really a good job for her.
She works here because she needs the money
to pay for her university courses.
When she finishes her course at university,
she wants to go to Rome
to live there for one or two years.
She says that the buildings there are incredible
and that she will learn a lot about art there.
When she moves to Italy, She doesn't want to work
as a waitress in a cafe.
She thinks she will be an English teacher in the afternoons.
She loves children, so this would be great for her.
At university, she has got friends from all over the world.
Some of them are from China, Japan, Turkey, Greece and Russia.
She loves learning new words in their languages.
They told her that when she finishes university,
she can come and visit them.
She said yes, so she has a lot of plans
to travel when she is 22.
When Tracy is in Edinburgh, she misses her family.
She has got a mum, a dad and three sisters.
Her sisters are a lot younger than her.
She is 19 and her sisters are twelve, nine and five.
At the weekends, she takes the train
to her village to visit her family.
She loves to play with her sisters
and she likes to help them with their homework.
She isn't very good at maths
or science, but she helps them with their English and art homework.
She also likes doing projects with them.
They spend time in the garden
or in their bedrooms painting and drawing.
Her sisters also like art.
And they always copy Tracy.
They say that when they are older,
they want to study in Edinburgh too.
Tracy and her family don't like watching TV,
using social media or playing video games.
So when she visits her family at the weekends,
She doesn't spend time watching TV or using technology.
They spend time outside or play together.
They love playing board games like Monopoly
and learning new things like how to play the guitar
or the piano because they are very artistic.
Tracy and her family do love animals
and in Edinburgh Tracy has got five fish.
At her family home she has got two cats and one dog.
Her cats are called Max and Pam.
Cats are her favourite animal
and she loves spending time with them on the sofa
when she goes to her village.
Max and Pam are only one year old,
so they are very crazy kittens.
They love to run and play, especially with Tracy's sisters.
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