Little email but confusing: How do you order this hotel service in correct english?

To whom it may concern,

I am writing on behalf of Mr. XXXXX XXXXXX who has a reservation in your hotel on March 2nd. I would kindly ask that you to pick up Mr. XXXXX at the airport with transportation provided through the hotel. He will be arriving at 5:00 PM. Please confirm via email in regards to this service.

**In America, not many people use the 24 hour time format.. we use AM and PM. I myself use the 24 militery time as they call it here, but when writing to someone over here (in the USA) use this form of time..

12:00 AM

1:00 AM 

2:00 AM 

3:00 AM

4:00 AM

6:00 AM

7:00 AM

8:00 AM

9:00 AM

10:00 AM

11:00 AM

12:00 AM

then it repeats itsself all over again at 1:00 in the afternoon using PM instead of AM after the time, 2:00 PM and so on.. haha

First notebook entry: Introducing myself

I'm learning English, because I love the language and the United States - well at least what I know of it ;-)

I want to understand more about the people and the culture.  I want to watch and understand the movies in their native language. The slang and phrases are the big issue here :-)

My native language is German and I grew up in Hannover (State: Niedersachsen), Germany.

My hobbies

I want to tell you about my hobbies. Well, I like to play sports. My favourite sport is skiing in winter. I really love it, and I have been skiing since I was a little child. Unfortunately it is very expensive and also a bit dangerous. I have injured myself three times. Twice on my hands and once I had a mild concussion. Since that happened I now always wear a helmet.
Other times in the winter I try to use my cross trainer almost every day. I always watch a DVD with english subtitles while I train on it. So it is not that boring and I kill two birds with one stone (is this phrase right, I found it in my translator, I think it sounds a bit brutal?)
So, when it is finaly spring time then I go jogging as often as I used my cross trainer in winter. While I am running it clears all my thoughts and takes away all my stress. Unfortunately the problems are still there when we come back home. So you see you can never run away from your problems even if we run very fast.

I also like to draw or paint pictures. Maybe once I am dead I will be famous then :-D. Because all the famous painters became famous after they were already dead.


So these are my hobbies, thank you for your correction in advance :-)

**Yes to kill two birds with one stone is an expression offen used here in America! Not the nicest thing to say but it gets the point across.. haha

What I do when  going to a restaurant, 

I love going to restaurants for have dinner or lunch with my friends, family or my boyfriend. When I arrive the first thing that I do is to call the waiter or waitress and ask for the carte. After I read the differents menus I call the waiter again and tell him or her what I would like. I love to eat chinese food and cuban food, but I also like hamburguers and french fries.
I  have braces so I have eat whith fork and knife, cuting all foods in littles pieces. Also I always need to have a napkin or handkerchief. I usually drink apple juice or water because I do not like coke or wine. I love sugary foods, for this reason my favorite desserts are chocolate pie or ice cream, I also love cookies. After some conversation with my friedns I ask for the bill, I pay then always tip the waiter or waitress.

**remeber I when used alone is always capitilized 

I am sick,  but I must go to work

Its the seven day with this cough and cold but I have my activities and I must go to work . I would like to stay home and to sleep !!!

Here I am

Oh! It's my first day on Italki. I am a bit nervous. Why? Because it's so hard to extract words and expression in English! It's really complicated to use grammar forms in the proper way,  And it seems like I  may never return my B2 level...

Still I am here and I'm going to do my best to return my language skills and do even more! So, wish me good luck! :)

** Good luck!! Tina 

My three Parrots

I have three parrots, their name are dabao，huihui and xiaocai. When I finish my work I always play with them, they like me. When I get home, they will say ho.. ho..to call me to let them out of the cage. When I open the door of the cage, they fly out and stop on my fingers or my head.Dabao is the best one, outside he can recognize me.

** I is  is Always capitalized when used alone. 

When starting a new sentence the fist letter of the first word in the sentence is always capitalized, and there should  always be a space after a puncuation of word. 

Your sentente structure and word use is very good!!