HP speech

[Amanar]

> Alice:
> Well, I got to talk about Harry Potter for money... :) I have an 
> English student, who's 18 and is applying to a university here in 
> Budapest to study English as his major. He wanted to speak to 
someone 
> who was actually British to improve his conversation and eventually 
> found me. Anyway, he has just come 9th in THE national competition 
of 
> high school students (in the category of English, of course), which 
> means he doesn't need to do any entrance exam for the university 
> course - the first ten people from the competition are in 
> automatically, if they want. So one of the articles he had to read 
> for the competition was on Harry Potter (and why adults read it), 
> so we sat on the bank of the Danube in the wind for an hour and 
> discussed it all in beautiful recieved pronunciation. And I got 
> payed well for my efforts. :)
> Alice

Do you think you could post that article here? It sounds very 
interesting!

I really envy you now- doing something you love *and* getting paid 
for it is not something most people are able to get (mine was a 
voluntary speech, BTW).

--Amanar