話匣子英語:采訪亞力克斯（2）

這兩期的節(jié)目主要是采訪亞力克斯，聽她講述她的精彩人生以及有趣的冒險故事，亞力克斯的英語非常好，但其實英語只是她的第二外語，她又是如何做到的呢?

Harp: Did you miss the city, or you were just enjoying nature and being in a smaller town?

Aleksandra: I’d say I’m a split personality in a way. I wilt, shrivel up, when I’m only immersed in an urban environment, and I start to get itchy and lonely when I’m only in the bush. I cannot be without one or the other.

Harp: I see. I see. OK, and then how, after this love affair with Vancouver and the beautiful city, did you end up on the East Coast?

Aleksandra: That was a love affair with a job. I really got a very interesting opportunity to work for the National Cancer Institute of Canada, and being that it’s a very large organization with lots of superbly interesting research projects, it was an offer I could not decline. Absolutely. So that, in and of itself, was enough to move me east.

Harp: OK. So you worked with the cancer research institute for a couple of years?

Aleksandra: It was about somewhere around 8 years. And it was a very steep learning curve.