If At First You Dont Suceed...

Hello all .

I wanted to take some time to share with you something that touched my heart . An attempt to communicate , done perfectly and with much effort. In class I exchanged E-Mails with my friend "Dream" from China. She came here to learn Japanese and to hopefully work. In our conversations she talks of how I have made her excited to one day visit America.

Visit America ?! To think that some people ..... will never see the ground and buildings and landmarks of America ... is mind blowing. At least when its with someone I see everyday , she knows nothing of my life at home. No idea of what its like to live like an America. Shes very sweet and we communicate well as she knows some english. She usues her translating dictionary but it works out well.

So like I said we exchanged E-Mails and she E-Mailed me in broken English. It was beautiful to see her attempt in trying to communicate...

"Hello!ノルマさん

　　It is me.dream.english is too hard .I will be mad.you know I take too much time to write this short email. it is only 5 sentenses.ok ,see you tomorrow.I really want to say more to you.but my english is limited.

Have a good dream!"

NOTE : Her name is not Dream but her Chinese name is difficult , she explained one of the characters in her name is Dream so thats what I call her.

-I replied to her using an online Chinese-to-English translator and wrote how much i appreciated her and think shes so wonderful and kind. That she means a lot among other things.

She replied with the following :

"hello,my dear!

first of all,i must say sorry to you.my unty just borrow this line from her friend to open the website.let you wait for many days.i am in yokohama ,her home.ok.you are so cute.i have understanded basically what you write.your chinese and my english are same.it is funny to communicate in this way.your meaning is this-you use your translater and you hope it will be works.you also want to say more to me but it is a little hard.you care have a good friend like me.ok i mainly know your meaning.haha, me too.i am so happy to recognize you.i have not many friend ,but you are one of them.you are sexy,cute,conversaional,true.....you are really so nice.if you go back, i will miss you,and i do not know when to meet you again.if you come to japan again or go to china ,must tell me.and then we could meet.now china is develop well,you can go to play.and if i have chance to go USA.i will fing you.and then you are my

guide.haha now i use my translator while i am writing.it is same feeling when we write to each other,i guess.

ok,have a good weekend!

I thought this would be interesting to share because some of you will never meet people like this. With such a communication barrier. Its very sweet and emotional reading this . She uses strange words to describe me but you have to keep in mind that shes using a translator so whatever she means to say in Chinese probably has a different meaning....

This is all for today...

Norms