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Visiting a friend 1

Cristina is on the two week vacation. This is the first vacation she's had for a long time.

The last vacation she took was more than two years ago.

Now she is visiting a friend in san francisco.

Her friend and her husband are living near the center of the city.

He works for a start of company in silicon valley.

While he's working. She works part time at a department store.

Christina hasn't seen her friend for a long time.

The last time they saw each other was three years ago.

At that time, they were both working at a department store.

Then cristina quit her job and started her own business.

She designs women's clothing.

She has two employees now and her company is slowly  growing.

Christina has come to san francisco by herself.

Her husband didn't come because he has to work.

He tried to started company two years ago, but it didn't work out.

His company failed after only a few months.

So now he's working at another company and saving money.

Once he saves enough money, he plans to start another money.

He doesn't want to give up.

This is the second time ， Christina has been to san francisco.

The first time was when she was a high school student.

That was more than 10 years ago.

During that trip, she was only in san francisco for a few days.

After that, she went los angeles and new york.

This time she and her friend plans to relax and have fun.

Visiting a friend 2

Christina arrived two days ago, the day before yesterday.

Her friend met her at the airport and drove her to her apartment.

Her apartment is just north of the airport about twenty minutes from san francisco.

It's a small apartment, but it's on the hill and has great view.

Yesterday they went downtown. And  rode the cable cars.