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2012.3.10 周六 开心的一天
多云 4℃-10℃
Today Helen and I and Molly and her girl and Pat met at FKC at 9:45. Helen hugged and kissed Pat as soon as she saw him and said “Pat, I want to have something to drink”, Pat picked her up and answered “OK, what do you want to drink?”I said “Helen, wear your shoes, please” “why?” “because you are old and heavy”. Helen and Molly’s daughter Baobao played at the playground, Molly and Pat and I drank and talked and ate. Pat was so happy to see pretty Molly again, he joked and we all laughed, in fact at that time I thought Pat was a happy young man as my age, not an old man.
And then we all went to the cinema to watch the movie named《happy feet》. Pat sat in the middle of Molly and me. as usual I tried to explain the chinese movie. I spoke english lowly, Pat taught me the names of sea animal. It was an excited movie and we all liked it very much, I was sure Pat knew what happened about the cartoon through my explaining.
After the movie we had lunch together. The two children wanted to sit with Pat and their own mom, hehe, Pat was a magic man, all of the children liked him very much even if they could not speak English. Helen shared her food with Pat as Pat got late food. Molly could not speak so well but she knew almost all of the dialogs between Pat and me. sometimes she did not talk but I knew she listened seriously. Helen played with Baobao and Pat took care of them as if Pat was their nanny hehe. Molly talked to me, it was a happy lunch.
After lunch, Baobao must have a nap, so Pat and Helen and I went to the rink. Pat was so suprised that the rink was opened still. He skated with helen, laughing and “running”so fast like birds and playing and talking. I believed Pat was so happy to skate with Helen. Helen met some new friends who wanted to talk to Pat too. Of course, Helen helped them. When they was skating, I was reading an english book named “the trumpeter of the swan”Pat said, if I read it many times i would know more and more about the book and understood all later. Before I met Pat, I could not believe that I did. But now I knew my english have improved much.
Then Helen and I went to the shower city. It was dark when we went out. Helen was so suprised to see Jupiter and Venus again. They both was closer than last time, Venus looked brighter and bigger than Jupiter tonight.
今天笑笑和笑妈和Molly和她的女儿宝宝以及老外在9点45时相约肯德基,一见面,笑笑和P at就又亲又抱的。“Pat,我想喝些东西”,老外抱起她,回答道“行呀,你想喝什么”笑妈说道:“笑笑,你必须穿上鞋!”(Molly来得晚,笑笑独自在肯德基的儿童游乐区玩,所以她必须脱了鞋)“为什么?”“因为你长大了,也重了”。笑笑和宝宝一起在游乐区玩,我们三个大人坐在一旁喝着聊着吃着。Pat很高兴又看到Molly,不停地开着玩笑,我们一起大笑着。事实上,在此时,笑妈认为他不是个老人而是与笑妈年纪相仿的快乐的年轻人。
接下来我们一起去电影院看了电影《快乐的大脚》。老外坐在笑妈和Molly的中间,象往常一样,笑妈试图给Pat作英文讲解,笑妈低声地说着英语,Pat呢,教会了我许多海洋动物的英语名称。这是个非常令人激动的电影,我们都非常喜欢看,笑妈确信,老外通过我的讲解已经了解了这部卡通片的大致内容。
看完电影,我们一起吃午饭。两个孩子都想与Pat与她们的妈妈坐一起,哈哈,Pat是个神奇的人,所有的孩子都非常喜欢他尽管他们不会说英语。老外的食物来得比较晚,笑笑便与Pat一起分享她的午餐。Molly的英语不是非常地好,但她能听懂笑妈与老外之间的所有对话,有时她什么也没说,但笑妈知道她在认真地听着。笑笑和宝宝玩得很开心 ,而老外呢,就负责照看两个孩子,俨然是个男保姆,Molly和笑妈在一旁聊天,这是一顿很开心的午餐。
午饭过后,宝宝必须回家午睡,因此老外笑笑和笑妈便上了冰场。Pat很惊讶溜冰场仍然开放着,他与笑笑一起溜冰,一起大笑,一起象鸟儿似地飞快地“跑”,一起玩游戏,一起聊天,笑妈相信,与笑笑在一起溜冰,Pat感觉很快乐。笑笑在冰场上又遇见了许多新朋友,他们也想与老外聊天,当然笑笑可以帮他们呀。孩子们在冰场上玩,笑妈在一旁看原版《吹小号的天鹅》。Pat说,如果笑妈多读几遍就能更多地了解故事情节并且总有一天能看懂所有的内容。在遇上Pat之前,笑妈基本不相信自己能做到这一点,但是现在我知道我的英语水平有了很大的提高。
接下来,笑笑和笑妈上浴城洗澡。等我们出门时天已经完全黑了,笑笑很惊讶她能再次看到金星和木星,它们两个比上次看到时挨得更近了,金星看起来比木星更大更亮。
后记:今天有个细节给笑妈留下了很深的印象,在给PAT介绍故事情节时,笑妈把那些动物们称为“it”,但是PAT却称之为“she”或“he”,以至于后来笑妈也习惯地随着PAT改了口。我们经常听说,老外们多么爱护环境爱护动物,或许从这个细节里就能看出,在老外的眼里,动物们真是他们的朋友。记得上次与PAT一起聊美国的黄石国家公园,Pat说那里有许多野生动物,笑妈说,亏得那是在美国,如果在中国,这片土地上肯定建起了高楼,被开发商们无尽地开发利用。
奇怪笑妈先写英文再写中文,却发现有时用英文表达起来更贴切,翻译后,反而觉得别扭。 |
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