Ding and her boy friend will go to Peking University to attend a short term language training class this summer vocation. So, yesterday they went to the Chinese Consulate in New York to apply for visas. They set out at ten o’clock in the morning. They did not get to New York until eleven forty. They altogether spent one hour and forty minutes on the road. There were a lot of people at the Consulate applying for visas. Ding and Xueyou got to the visa window only after standing in the line for about an hour. The consul who handled Ding and Xueyou’s application is a woman, (whose) last name is Zhang, (and she ) was quite nice. Consul Zhang Asked Ding why she wanted to go to study in China. Ding answered that the facilities in the United States were good, and the teachers taught very well. But the opportunities of speaking Chinese were not many. Except asking questions and answering questions in the class, there were almost no chance of using Chinese in daily life. So, (she) wanted very much to take advantage of the summer vocation to go to Beijing. In this way, besides learning Chinese, (she) can also know about the Chinese society. Ding said that she hoped that consul would support her plan and grand her visa to go to China. When (they) got out of the consulate, it was already three in the afternoon. From ten o’clock in the morning to three o’clock in the afternoon, Ding and Xueyou were fully occupied for five hours. (they) did not eat, neither did (they) drink. Although Ding and Xueyou were both hungry and tired, they were very happy, because they got the visas and would go and visit China very soon.