Greeting and Hello to everyone. A belated Happy New Year to you all and an early Xinnian Kuaile or Happy Chinese New Year to you all. New Year's is very late this year, February 18, and I can't wait. It's one of my favorite holidays on any continent, mostly because here you get to blow a lot of stuff up and do it often.
As I promised in the e-mail many of you received, I have some news. First, let me "utter" a sentence I've never uttered before in my life:
(Keep going...)
I'd like you to meet my wife.
Everybody, this is Yao Hai Ya. She uses the English name Cathy. So I'm pleased to introduce you to my wife, Cathy Yao. The other day she was trying on the name Cathy Stranathan for size, and I must admit, she did a better job than a majority of the people I've heard on their first try.
Cathy is from DaYing, a small town about forty-five minutes west of Ningbo. She works for a wholesale office supply export company here in town, dealing primarily in notebooks. So, if you're in the market for two or three hundred thousand composition books, Cathy's your gal. Well, she's my gal, but you know what I mean.
We met about two years ago through a mutual friend, an Australian who was teaching with me at my old school. Fortunately, Cathy speaks very good English, or we would not have gotten very far in our relationship relying on my Chinese skills. We're still deciding what to do in the long-term, but for now we're content and happy here in Ningbo, so we'll stay here for the near future.
Enough of me, here's Cathy in her own words.
Hi, Everybody. I am Cathy Yao Stranathan. I would introduce myself here, but I thought Curtis didn't want to give me the chance.
I got married with Curtis on January 10, 2007. I felt a little nervous while we got the red book. I asked Curtis "Are we really getting married? Are we really getting married? Are we really getting married?" The nervousness was gone the next day, because I was still myself, I didn't have any changes.
Thank you Curtis, my dawg. You're the right man for me, I am like a fish in the sea. I feel freedom, respect, understanding with you.
Our friend Chuck told me: "One thousand years, One thousand children." I think we can do it!
Just so you know, we were watching the movie Finding Forester not long ago. It's the warm sensitive story of an isolated middle-aged white guy and an inner city youth and how they find understanding and friendship together. Cathy was fascinated watching and listening to the teenagers' casual conversation and "Dawg" was the thing that stuck in her mind. I guess that's one of the reasons I fell in love with her.
I'm not even going to tell you what line she remembers from Rainman. Let's just say she gets an awful lot of chances to use it.
So, there you have it. Another sign of the coming Apocalypse, possibly, but pretty cool, nontheless.
Stay tuned as I, oww, er, um we promise to be more conscientious about posting.
Love to all,
Cathy and Curtis
As I promised in the e-mail many of you received, I have some news. First, let me "utter" a sentence I've never uttered before in my life:
(Keep going...)
I'd like you to meet my wife.
Everybody, this is Yao Hai Ya. She uses the English name Cathy. So I'm pleased to introduce you to my wife, Cathy Yao. The other day she was trying on the name Cathy Stranathan for size, and I must admit, she did a better job than a majority of the people I've heard on their first try.Cathy is from DaYing, a small town about forty-five minutes west of Ningbo. She works for a wholesale office supply export company here in town, dealing primarily in notebooks. So, if you're in the market for two or three hundred thousand composition books, Cathy's your gal. Well, she's my gal, but you know what I mean.
We met about two years ago through a mutual friend, an Australian who was teaching with me at my old school. Fortunately, Cathy speaks very good English, or we would not have gotten very far in our relationship relying on my Chinese skills. We're still deciding what to do in the long-term, but for now we're content and happy here in Ningbo, so we'll stay here for the near future.
Enough of me, here's Cathy in her own words.
Hi, Everybody. I am Cathy Yao Stranathan. I would introduce myself here, but I thought Curtis didn't want to give me the chance.
I got married with Curtis on January 10, 2007. I felt a little nervous while we got the red book. I asked Curtis "Are we really getting married? Are we really getting married? Are we really getting married?" The nervousness was gone the next day, because I was still myself, I didn't have any changes.
Thank you Curtis, my dawg. You're the right man for me, I am like a fish in the sea. I feel freedom, respect, understanding with you.
Our friend Chuck told me: "One thousand years, One thousand children." I think we can do it!
Just so you know, we were watching the movie Finding Forester not long ago. It's the warm sensitive story of an isolated middle-aged white guy and an inner city youth and how they find understanding and friendship together. Cathy was fascinated watching and listening to the teenagers' casual conversation and "Dawg" was the thing that stuck in her mind. I guess that's one of the reasons I fell in love with her.
I'm not even going to tell you what line she remembers from Rainman. Let's just say she gets an awful lot of chances to use it.
So, there you have it. Another sign of the coming Apocalypse, possibly, but pretty cool, nontheless.
Stay tuned as I, oww, er, um we promise to be more conscientious about posting.
Love to all,
Cathy and Curtis
1 comment:
Well I'll be damned! Congratulations! Where do we send the wedding gift?
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