Huston, We Have Communication!

Posted On : August 22, 2008 5:16 AM | Posted By : Yemi
Related Categories: Life in China, Family, Buchela

Buchela's teachers are all really sweet.

There is one particularly wonderful teacher towards whom he gravitates.

She also seems to take a special interest in him.

Yesterday, I received a very sweet and thoughtful note from her.

I have actually lived in China long enough to understand what she is trying to say.

I didn't even have to re-read the note.

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So what is she saying?

# Posted By A | 8/22/08 6:20 AM

I discovered your blog by accident and I must say it's refreshing. You kids are so addorable. Love their names too. Oh, this letter from bushela's teacher is so funny but I think I understand what she is trying to tell you. Don't accompany Buchela during class time?? That is how I understood it.

# Posted By Wuro | 8/22/08 7:05 AM

Hurray! Hurray! Hurray! Long live google translation!!!!

# Posted By Mamitu | 8/22/08 7:23 AM

Is she asking you out???

# Posted By Mesay | 8/22/08 7:26 AM

Mesay, I think she is nicely asking his family not to accompany him so that he can independently interact with the other children. And may be take a nap after the afternoon Chinese class? Hey, I am just trying to read between the lines. It remined me of a friend who was an engineer, whose mother sent a maid who had a small stove,cooking utensils and food with her when my friend went to her first field trip out side of Addis Abeba. Needless to say that was her last field trip.

# Posted By Mamitu | 8/22/08 7:34 AM

LOL that letter was very clear. I translated it to mean...

"Back off and let us do our job, you should be busy taking care of his little sister. Why isn't he able to take naps with the other Chinese kids? You made it very difficult for us in August, to teach him anything, so starting September please just drop him off and pick him up. He will adjust once he realizes you're not watching after him and you will adjust once you see your happy boy come home in one piece. Yours, 10-4 over and out"

Thanks for sharing that letter, broken English or not her message was clear as a bell. How can you leave that cute face though, it's gonna be hard for you.

# Posted By Tsion | 8/22/08 8:13 AM

mamitu, I was kidding :))

# Posted By Mesay | 8/22/08 8:31 AM

Impressive that you decoded the message on the first try!

# Posted By JourneytoFamily | 8/22/08 10:12 AM

Wow! how do they say "mommy back off" in Chinese?

how do you write Li-Son in Chinese?

# Posted By jono | 8/22/08 2:41 PM

May be you sould leave the camera at home when you take him to school. I would not like it, If someone mom just takeing my pic while i am doing my job. It is not even fair for the other kids.

# Posted By oh | 8/22/08 4:37 PM

Mesay, Tsion, lol.

Mamitu, yeah, that is basically what she is saying.

OH, no thank you. I love my camera. This is never going to happen again so I want to have pictures of it and record it. That is what blogging is about.

As for the employees and other kids, don't worry, there are plenty of other parents taking pictures too. They just don't stay with their children (with the exception of one) as I do.

# Posted By Yemi | 8/22/08 5:05 PM

congrats on your ability to decode her note! I am not too sure exactly what she was trying to tell you.

# Posted By tricia wilson | 8/23/08 2:08 PM

Wow - I understood it on the first read too! but I have never been to China. Fortunately or unfortunately, I have worked (and still do) with a lot of chinese people and they speak exactly the way this letter is written. Frustrating at first but you get used to it real quick, I suppose....

Yemi, you're spending way too much time at the school :)

GonTe

# Posted By gonTe | 8/23/08 9:19 PM

LOL Yemi! I guess they don't write Lissan's name in Chinese...
I tried to get my Chienese co-worker to teach me how to write my name in Chinese...He laughed at me for 20mins....
He tried to explain the pictionary theory to me...and I was so lost :) Must be rough trying to learn the language...are you making any progress?

Leave Buchiye at school...he's going to be just fine speaking Chinese :) That is so weird...the kelis Chinese speaking baby yehonal :)

# Posted By A | 8/24/08 9:10 PM

This was HYSTERICAL. I sort of understood, but truthfully, it wasn't until I read the comments that I got it. LOL.

I love your blog. And you have been tagged.

# Posted By Kristina Brooke | 9/13/08 6:52 PM

whew! i only made it half way through that letter. Thank God for commenters. Tsion, you are hilarious!

the kids are growing beautifully Yemi!

xoxo

blast from the past

# Posted By jj | 9/19/08 7:59 PM

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