WEEK 2: OUR FIRST STEPS IN C1

MEETING THE LOCALS.

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INTERVIWER:

Have you heard the latest on the man who won the national lottery? Eight million dollars he won. That’s a great amount, isn’t it? Have you ever thought of—

ALBERTO C.:

Winning that thing? Of course I do. Everybody does in fact, I think. Well I wouldn’t be in this show in first place (laughs). You know, that money lets you do a few things.

INTERVIWER:

I wouldn’t be here either (laughs). But please, tell us, what would you have done if you had won the big prize?

ALBERTO C.:

Me? Well, I wouldn’t doubt about starting the car and going to the next shopping centre. Half of the money would be spent on pretty and expensive clothes. Yes, I’m quite materialistic in that sense. Can’t avoid it. Next step would be buying some lofts; one in Madrid and another one—let’s say in New York. I really love those apartments; they are quite stylish and luminous. I suppose, once done with my little cravings, I would spent the rest of the money on travelling. Though I’m a city dweller, I’d like to visit some rural places, like Cambodia –ruins are some kind of passion in me, don’t ask me why; I don’t even know (laughs). Follow that line, I would also go to Greece, Central America, India and all those places with millenary ruins. They are the remaining memories of ancient cultures. They have always attracted me, more than the present ones.

INTERVIWER:

Wow! That’s a man with clear ideas. Would you go on that journey alone or with friends?

ALBERTO C.:

With friends of course! It wouldn’t be an adventure if I didn’t have them with me! Every adventure needs that one guy confident enough to get the rest of us in some troubles, you know. Yet –I don’t know how—that same guy will manage to get us out of the situation. There’s also the cute and carefree girl. She’ll go wherever we will, and she will laugh at everything. The churl guy would be definitely in the group as well. He might be mean sometimes, but you can count on him for everything. I have more friends and I 

would take them all with my on a journey, that’s for sure.

INTERVIWER:

That sounds awesome. But there’s a thing I’d like to ask. What “guy” would you be?

ALBERTO C.:

Me? I’m the one complaining about everything all the time! (Laughs).

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