Thursday, January 10, 2008

Favorite Quotes 3

Sorry, I will have have to delay the Christmas gifts pictures a little longer. I can't access my blog directly, so I'm having to have a friend post this for me, and posting the pictures is a little time consuming, given that I'm about to leave the country, headed for Japan. Woo hoo! It's the end of the semester (sad), but it's the beginning of my 6 week vacation (yea!). So, I'll leave you with another set of quotes from students while I'm abroad.

"To be friend, I trust it is in the near future. Now I am talking about you with my roommates. Frankly speaking I like you."
-A new friendship that has recently developed thanks to Office Hours!

"Hearing your words, I am very happy from my heart. Excited and moved, I can't find any words to express my feelings. No words can do that, so being active to treasure the friendship between us is the best way, also the only way to describe my emotion."
-Really, some great friendships have developed during this semester.

"Meeting you is the most meaningful thing of my college life."
-This was from my "didi" or younger brother. A guy I also met from office hours. He is not really part of my family, but I think our friendship was meant to be, beyond my own intentions. For those of you who know my meaning, I think you also know my request to you about this friendship. It's a good one.

"Merry Christmas, John! May you have a nice Christmas, and grace and blessoing from Jesus is upon you!"
-Hard to be upset with that kind of wish on Christmas day in China!

"Hey, Merry Christmas! Cheerful everyday! Haha :)"
-Ha. The phrase "happy everyday" is a common one around here. Love that Chinglish!

"Merry Christmas! Wish you happy everyday!"
-I wasn't kidding! I could share MANY of these with you, but I'll stop with this one.

"Much joy to you in the coming year. May the warmest wishes, happy thoughts and friendly greetings come at Christmas and stay with you all through the year!"
-Really excellent English skills in this message. We don't get many of these, so I thought it was worth sharing.

"Season's Greetings to my teacher and friend, Mr. Ross. May you and your family have the best Christmas Eve ever. May happiness follow wherever you go, and at the same time, don't forget to hang up the sock tonight :)"
-Hahaha. Something just seems a bit kinky about that last part.

"Mary Christmas!"
-Can't see the line, can you Russ? Haha, name that movie!

"Happy christrancs eve! Happy christrancs day!"
-And a happy newtancs yearcs, too!

"Hot shit, Merry Xmas! Haha, hope it would snow tonight!"
-Hahaha. Some students know some American slang. And it's always interesting to see how it gets used...

"Thank you for joining us tonight. We all really had a good time. And we all regretted for not inviting you for dinner at the beginning of the semester, when we thought we are all shy."
-It's been cool to see that all throughout the semester, new students have suddenly decided to be a little bold and really try to be good friends with us. I think these friendships will carry over into next semester.

"Whether the weather be fine, or whether the weather be no; whether the weather be cold, or whether the weather be hot; we will weather the weather, whatever the weather, whether we like it or not. Don't let this gloomy weather influence your mood!"
-This one's for my mom. She worries about whether there will be weather a lot.

"HARRY New Year!"
-Hermione and Ron send their regrets.

"These ideas will not cost us much money. We can offer some newspaper, magazines and drinking in the rest room, so if they don't play the game during the rest time, they can enjoy themselves with the drinking and other."
-Of course, to be a proper company, drinking in the restroom isn't allowed before noon! Haha, this was actually part of a students answer on a test. Gotta love it!

And that's it for now :) Hope you all are enjoying the New Year! By the way, have you heard that I'm an UNCLE???!!! Little Eli Ross was born on 1/7/08, and it sounds like he and Mom and Dad are all doing very well. Congratulations Don and Courtney!