Email from Au Pair Extraordinaire, after I wrote her again to ask her what's up...
hello dear L.
how is it everything?
I am sooo happy to get your news. I am fine and I heard about there is a big earthquake in Japan. I hope everything is fine!!!
In fact I have a great time in Taiwan and my family.
And I am going to university in Taiwan this year.
I am sorry that it is late to tell you I want to finish my school in 2 year and I made it to pass the exam in school . So I decide to stay.
I just got the notes from the school I am very sad that I won`t be able to go back. But I am still looking forward to meeting you and everyone again maybe next summer!!!! I hope I can meet you soon and Big Son, Daughter and Little Son. I miss you sooo much!
Please keep in touch and I will write to you. My family and I appreciate you soooo much that there is no words to say.
Best wish to all and you have a sweet and fun summer and good luck on your work.
I will pray for you.
love,
Au Pair Extraordinaire
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So that's that.
We will miss her cheerful smile and helping hands, but not her long black hairs all over the place -- she has gorgeous long, full hair, but wow, she sheds it like a Siberian Husky.
The "I will pray for you" part is surprising, since she never expressed a single outwardly religious thought in the whole two years she lived with us. Perhaps she thought it would make me happy to hear it, but I'm not quite sure why, because except for the Catholic school part, we are not an demonstratively religious family -- we are very privately praying people. Or perhaps she said it because she really will pray for us, which, no matter how you look at it, would be nice.
Hub is sad that she didn't mention him in the message. Hub is also still upset that she called our family "cold," whereas I managed to get over it within 24 hours after the incident. I think Hub was particularly shocked because, as I often say, Hub's Kyoto family makes my repressed New England Catholic family look like a hippy commune in the Summer of Love, so Hub can't understand how someone -- especially someone from a similar Asian culture -- could possibly think our family is "cold."
Poor Hub.
He'll get over it, though. The upside of not having an unrelated young woman around is that he can walk around his own house in his underwear all the time. He can even scratch himself.
how is it everything?
I am sooo happy to get your news. I am fine and I heard about there is a big earthquake in Japan. I hope everything is fine!!!
In fact I have a great time in Taiwan and my family.
And I am going to university in Taiwan this year.
I am sorry that it is late to tell you I want to finish my school in 2 year and I made it to pass the exam in school . So I decide to stay.
I just got the notes from the school I am very sad that I won`t be able to go back. But I am still looking forward to meeting you and everyone again maybe next summer!!!! I hope I can meet you soon and Big Son, Daughter and Little Son. I miss you sooo much!
Please keep in touch and I will write to you. My family and I appreciate you soooo much that there is no words to say.
Best wish to all and you have a sweet and fun summer and good luck on your work.
I will pray for you.
love,
Au Pair Extraordinaire
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So that's that.
We will miss her cheerful smile and helping hands, but not her long black hairs all over the place -- she has gorgeous long, full hair, but wow, she sheds it like a Siberian Husky.
The "I will pray for you" part is surprising, since she never expressed a single outwardly religious thought in the whole two years she lived with us. Perhaps she thought it would make me happy to hear it, but I'm not quite sure why, because except for the Catholic school part, we are not an demonstratively religious family -- we are very privately praying people. Or perhaps she said it because she really will pray for us, which, no matter how you look at it, would be nice.
Hub is sad that she didn't mention him in the message. Hub is also still upset that she called our family "cold," whereas I managed to get over it within 24 hours after the incident. I think Hub was particularly shocked because, as I often say, Hub's Kyoto family makes my repressed New England Catholic family look like a hippy commune in the Summer of Love, so Hub can't understand how someone -- especially someone from a similar Asian culture -- could possibly think our family is "cold."
Poor Hub.
He'll get over it, though. The upside of not having an unrelated young woman around is that he can walk around his own house in his underwear all the time. He can even scratch himself.
posted by L. at 12:28 PM
4 Comments:
yeah for Hub.. back to life in a comfy frame of mind...
funny though, her note... well, you just never know..
I thought it was a nice note and much better than just disappearing. I would have been happier if she'd told you in person but possibly she wasn't sure.
You'll never know what that other thing was about or when it was written.
As for not mentioning Hub, how long was it before you realized I'm married? I felt so silly that I'd never mentioned him at all.
I guess it's disappointing that you had to prod her to find out if she was coming back. The "Outrageous Incident" made me really sad.
Hi! I have a quick question for you re: your job. Next monday I'll start training for a job in the business section of a newspaper (not in the US) and in an interview, my future job (if all goes well) asked me how much should a stock exchange fall be to be considered newsworthy. What would you respond to that? I prefered to tell him I didn't know instead of pulling a number from... a dark place but I immediatly though I should ask you (strange how blogging does that).
Thank you.
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