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2012.3.24 周六 开心的一天
多云 6℃-12℃
Today I invited Susan and Mary and Pat to have lunch and play with us, helen and me. Susan was so pretty with her long hair and Mary was so happy to see Pat and play with Helen when we sat at “water paradise”. Pat sat beside Mary, held her hand and played with her even if they didnot understand each other. Mary laughed and laughed. But Susan was jealous as she found she and Mary didnot appear on helen’s books, but they saw Pat. Hahaha, I was sorry, I thought they would be satisfying in Helen’s next book. Susan gave Pat and Helen delicious ice cream bread, this noon Pat ate nothing except the bread!
After lunch Susan took Mary away, Pat and Helen and I went to the Hongmei Park. It was a sunny and happy day. At first we rowed boat. Helen was the captain,driving the boat. Naughty PAT put his hands in helen’s eys and she saw nothing but helen still drove. Of course helen was a wild driver and made so many “accidents”.
After then we met Susan and Mary again, but Mary was so sad and crying because her piano teacher took all of her stickers away. It was so lucky that Mary was happy again to play with Helen. She said what helen said and did what helen did. Pat said “I think Helen is her boss”. Susan asked Pat a question: “do you have some idea about Mary’s best job?” “I think her best job is love and happy”i donot think Susan understood it as she asked the same question again. “no one knows it except Mary, you should ask Mary , not me. I know in China some children say yes to their parents only to make the parents happy even though the answer in their heart is no. So I think it is your business, what is the most important, you make Mary happy or Mary makes you happy?”after these words Pat looked at me, smiled and nodded, I knew I must translate them for Susan. I hope helen will control her own life.
Helen saw Jupiter and Venus and moon and other stars in the night sky, helen has missed them many days. she was so exciting to call Pat who was looking at them in his telescope(they both did the same at the same time). They talked so much about Jupiter and Venus and Mars
今天笑笑和笑妈约了Susan 和Mary当然少不了 Pat,一起在“水天堂”吃午饭。今天Susan的长发真漂亮呀,Mary呢,见到笑笑和老外非常开心。Pat坐在Susan 和MaryMary身旁,边拉着她的手边逗她玩,虽然他们彼此语言不通,但这并不影响什么。Mary笑呀笑呀笑呀,但Susan 却很“嫉妒”,因为笑笑的宝宝珍藏集里,只有PAT没有她与Mary。对不起,你们一定会出现在笑笑的下一本珍藏集里。Susan给笑笑和PAT带了美味的冰琪淋面包,PAT午饭除了面包外什么也没吃。
午饭过后,Susan 和 Mary离开了,我们一行三人上了红梅公园。今天格外明朗格外开心。我们首先去划船,笑笑是船长,由她来驾驶电瓶船。淘气的PAT居然用双手捂住了笑笑的双眼,尽管什么都看不见,但她仍然在驾驶。笑笑呀可是个“野蛮”司机,她呀故意制造了许多“交通事故”。
划完船,我们等来了Susan 和Mary。但是MARY 很伤心,不停地哭着,原来她的钢琴老师没收了她所有的贴纸。不过幸运的是,当她和笑笑一起玩时,她很快忘记了这事并变得很开心。笑笑什么,她也说什么,笑笑做什么,她也跟着做什么,Pat说“笑笑是老板”。 Susan问老外一个问题“你认为MARY最好的职业是什么”“爱和开心”,笑妈知道Susan没有理解PAT的意思,她把这个问题又重复了一遍。“除了MARY,没有人能给你答案。所以你应该问她,不是问我。我知道在中国许多孩子答应父母只是为了让父母开心,尽管他们内心并不想这么做。所以,你可以选择,是你让MARY开心,还是她让你开心”。说完,PAT看了看我,微笑着点了点头,我知道他的意思是让我翻译给Susan听。我希望将来笑笑能主宰她自己的生活!
晚上笑笑看到了木星、金星、月亮和其他星星,笑笑已经错过他们很久很久了。她非常兴奋立即打电话给PAT,而此时,PAT正用他的天文望远镜来观察他们呢(这意味着他们两人在相同的时间里做着相同的事)。在电话里,他们谈论了许多关于星星的话题。
笑妈后记:在笑妈的英文日记里,会引用一些PAT的原话,但由于笑妈的水平有限,无法确切地知道他说的每一个单词,也无法准确地记住这些,所以如果有错误的话,那是笑妈的引用错误,而不是PAT原话有误,希望博友们理解并谅解。
或许Susan的提问很有代表性,因为中国的父母总是为孩子们规划,就说笑妈自已吧,好多事是笑妈父母的选择而不是笑妈自己的选择(幸运的是,起码老公还是笑妈自己选的)。笑妈与PAT在一起时,有时会聊及各自的孩子。在PAT的孩子还是小孩子的时候,或许他会规定他们应该做什么,不应该做什么,但他们成年后,完全有自己的选择权,PAT完全放手。我也能做到这一点吗?希望我的答案是“yes” 。 |
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