On December 5th, 2010 my plane landed in San Francisco. My booking involved four weeks studying in Converse International School of Languages and eight weeks Volunteer English program. Also, I am living for those three months in a home stay.

I spent Christmas and New Year’s Eve in San Francisco. I didn’t wait for white Christmas and not for summer. Here I expected mild temperatures between 35 ° and 55 ° Fahrenheit (ca. 0 ° to 15 ° Celsius) perfect for shopping and sightseeing. I also met up with my classmates and fellow students to take, for example, dinner in restaurants. To fill out the program, CISL offers variety of offerings.

I spent Christmas with my family. This was a priceless experience for me to celebrate Christmas outside of my family in another culture. I could find out differences and similarities between American and my German culture. My wonderful host family is of Filipino origin. They have four grown children and eight grandchildren aged two to eighteen years. The whole family comes together to Christmas, on 12/25. There I could share with all family members everything possible and I could enjoy Christmas in a different family.

New Years Eve I spent with my classmates, my fellow students and my new friends. You meet up with them at one of your host family, residence, apartment or in public restaurants, bars and clubs. At 11 pm you should go to the “Embarcadero” because at 00:00 clock there starts big fireworks. Perhaps I’ve never even seen so many people in one place and certainly I’ve never seen so many different cultures in one place.
Then the party was into the early morning hours.

Hey,

My name is Julia, and I am staying in San Francisco for three months. At home in Berlin, Germany, I study English in order to be a High School teacher. Obviously, my English has to be very good and I am happy that I found the homepage of Converse by browsing the Web some months ago. For years, it had been my dream to spend some time in San Francisco because I had heard that it is the most liberal city in the U.S.

So I applied for an internship at Converse San Francisco and learned that I had to take a language course as well. At first, I was a little bit reluctant because I had had some bad experiences with other language schools. However, my skepticism was soon proven wrong. I was placed in the right course level, had an excellent teacher, and never had the feeling that I wasn’t being challenged. Furthermore, this was also a good way to meet new people.

Now I am finished with my language course and working at Converse part-time as an intern. I am learning a lot about the American workplace, and the staff is very friendly and constantly helps me improve my English skills. And I still have got enough time to explore the city, to participate in the great free-time activities and to have a lot of fun.

View of San Franciscio Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge from Coit Tower, atop Telegraph Hill

San Francisco is a city famous for steep hills, street cars, and a liberal attitude unmatched in the United States. In America it is mentioned in the same sentence as New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Austin, and Chicago. In fact, it has been voted best city for the past sixteen years. Internationally it is compared to Berlin, France, Amsterdam, and Prague.

So, as one would expect with a world-class city, there is no shortage of things to do.

Begin to discover what’s going on in San Francisco by exploring the links below! And these aren’t boring links from the office of tourism, these are links that will keep you “in the know” about what is going on in this vibrant city.

Remember, come back because the site is updated with tips for events, concerts, restaurants, and more so that you can know what is going on!

The Laughing Squid : This is a great resource for Art, Culture, and Technology events in the Bay Area.

Daily Candy: Daily Candy operates in specific cities and covers all things culture: nightlife, restaurants, fashion, events, art, and more!

1 : of the same or similar nature
2 : related; especially : related by descent from the same ancestral language

Example Sentence:
Sean is a professor of astronomy whose background includes extensive work in the cognate fields of mathematics and physics.

Let’s start off with the easy part. ‘ I wish to’ can mean the same as ‘I want to’ but it is much, much more formal and much, much less common.

You can also use ‘wish’ with a noun to ‘offer good wishes’.

Notice that when you want to offer good wishes using a verb, you must use ‘hope ‘ and not ‘wish’.

However, the main use of ‘wish’ is to say that we would like things to be different from what they are, that we have regrets about the present situation.

Notice that the verb tense which follows ‘I wish’ is ‘more in the past’ than the tense corresponding to its meaning.

In the case of ‘will’ , where ‘will’ means ‘show willingness’ we use ‘would’.

Where ‘will’ means a future event, we cannot use ‘wish’ and must use ‘hope’.

In more formal English, we use the subjunctive form ‘were’ and not ‘was’ after ‘wish’.

A woman sees a beautiful bracelet in the window of a jewelery shop and decides that she wants it, but she doesn’t have enough money to buy it.

Then she has an idea. She goes into the shop and asks if they will
hold/save the bracelet for her if she pays a small deposit.

The jeweller says that for a deposit of $50 he will hold the bracelet
for her for up to four weeks.

Then he asks her, “When will you come to collect and pay for the bracelet?”

The woman replies, “My husband will come in and pay for the bracelet
as soon as he does something unforgivable. Probably this weekend!”