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My English neighbor - Jean

本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛Jean, my next-door neighbor, is a retired nurse living on her own. She is divorced and no kids. Maybe because of the loneliness, she often drops by to say ‘Hi’. If she finds out I am not very busy, she will try to chat a big longer.

Once she invites me to her house to watch ‘Notting Hill’, which stars Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant. I have never seen this movie. But she already watched 14 times. She tells me that she is crazy about Hugh Grant and she wants to watch it again with me.

After pouring two glasses of coke with vodka, we find ourselves each a comfortable spot and start watching.

Every time, when she sees Hugh Grant showing up on the screen, she whistles, claps her hands and screams ‘Isn’t he cute, isn’t he handsome…?’ When she sees Julia Robert, she would say: ‘She is so ugly, her mouth is big enough to eat him’. All of these make me laugh like a drain.

When the movie comes to the scene when the heroine is asked how long she is planning to stay in England and she says ‘indefinitely’. Jean stands up from her chair clapping her hands…screaming…‘yeah…she is going to stay…’. Her excitment is really contagious!!

What an experience! She is at my mom’s age and I can’t imagine if my mom acts like that. Aren’t we taught since we are very small that do not express our feelings, no matter it is happiness or sadness? Aren’t we taught that we should act in accordance with our age?

Maybe we should try to be more transparent, try to be more true to ourselves, try to live life in different ways...更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
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  • 工作学习 / 事业与工作 / My English neighbor - Jean
    • Excellent english!
      • ??????
      • 做人要厚道:)
      • Are you kidding?
        Just a few:
        next-door -> next door
        and no kids -> with no kid/kids
        a big longer -> a bit longer
        Once she invites -> invited
        should use all past tense for this paragraph
        "Once she invites me to her house to watch ‘Notting Hill’, which stars Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant. I have never seen this movie. But she already watched 14 times. She tells me that she is crazy about Hugh Grant and she wants to watch it again with me.

        And I am not really good at English. I can write Chinese much better.
        • but the story is good.
    • 相信你的母亲是个很有教养的人, 你却不懂欣赏. 大呼小叫很了不起吗, 这样的大妈多了去了.
    • not bad, pal. did you read <<the moon and sixpence>> before? what Gaugin did was simply toot grotesque. but living a life in one's own way is always sthg sweet and ecstatic
    • Lots of people intend to judge the culture.
      My mom wouldn't watch " notting hill" with me. She doesn't have to understand the movies I like, the music I am into. But i still believe she is being herself and enjoying the life in her ways.
      Western life style and culture are very mysterious to most chinese people. Mystery doesn't mean it's wiser!
      Dont be so naive to think that the elder shouting at a movie star is being more transparent and preach chinese people being more genuine!
    • "Maybe we should try to be more transparent"?
    • you are right. be true to yourself. do not pretend.
    • Nice. :)