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A dream told by an American landlord
(2007-07-15 10:50:24)
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找房子的过程是枯燥而艰辛的，不过就在这样一个枯燥艰辛的过程中，一个房东老太太给我发来一个饶有兴味又感人至深的故事，现节选如下：
My dearest Chinese (former)
housemate's name is Mr. Ye. He somehow managed to
come to the US by dint of having been given the wrong English test,
so his friend told me. Another guy (Andres, a
German/Polish man from Brazil) living here at the time helped him
out by taping words to objects in the kitchen. Mr. Ye longed for
his wife to join him, and miraculously (it seemed to us; Mr. Ye had
recently converted to Christianity) she eventually was permitted to
do so. The evening he told me the news, I said to
him, Let's go upstairs and tell the others. When
we did, my friend Andres asked him: "How will your wife get here?"
Mr. Ye replied: "Airmail." You
can imagine how hard we laughed! When the time came for his wife to
arrive, Andres, another housemate, and I drove to N.Y.C. to pick
her up at the airport and tour the city for the weekend.Needless to
say, she did not arrive in an airmail envelope.
There's a P.S. to Mr. Ye's story.He did not want
to go back to China and be the swimming coach that the government
wanted him to be (he was one of China's swimming champs).
Instead, he wanted to work in electronics, which
he had come to love through his collaboration with Andres on
several projects. Lo and behold, the Tyananmen
incident permitted him and his wife to stay here permanently, and
even his son was allowed to join him. They moved
to California where Mr. Ye happily got engaged in electronics
work!
Enough rambling, it's back to work for me now.Have a good day, and when you arrive here may
your best dreams come true!
There's a P.S. to Mr. Ye's story.
Enough rambling, it's back to work for me now.
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