1 March 2002
Dear David,        
       I shall be away from China for the next few months. I'm leaving here on 5 March and will be back at the end of June.
      I am going to England for an intensive training course. On the way there I shall stop for a few days in Rome, the capital of Italy. But I won't have time to visit Paris. What a pity!


       I am also going to visit my former English teacher, Jean. She once taught me English at my university in China. Now she works at Edinburgh. She is going to meet me at the London airport. I shall stay in her small flat. The training course will begin in April. All the trainees are from foreign countries. We'll work together to learn advertising. If there is time, we may drive to Scotland. We'll visit some factories and companies there.
     I hope we will also have time to see the Shakespeare Festival. I once spent a lot of time on Shakespeare's plays and poems at university. Now I can still remember some of them.
     I know collecting postcards is your special interest. I shall send you some as soon as I arrive in England.
                                                                                                                   Sincerely yours,
                                                                                                                    Li Hong