長小魚的生活buffet 館 我們在天上的父,願人都尊你的名為聖,願你的國降臨, 願你的旨意行在地上,如同行在天上,我們日用的飲食,今日賜給我們, 免我們的債,如同我們免了人的債, 救我們脫離凶惡,不叫我們遇見試探,因為國度,權柄,榮耀,全是你的, 直到永遠,阿門!

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僅以此篇與所有在異鄉生活過的太太們或是正打算踏入異國陪讀的太太們分享...




My dear daughter:

When I was your age, I was teaching in Taiwan and didn’t

know I would meet your father and marry him two years later,

flying to the United States to live with him when he was a PHD

student who couldn’t afford to have a wife in many people’s

minds. My married life began in Chicago, a beautiful but cold

city in the winter, which lasted five months. However, what

was the coldest was not the weather, but the snowy world

without family members and close friends who dwelled in my

heart. When I recalled my first year in Chicago, I would say

I was like a dying rose which lost the sunshine and the water

it needed for daily life. My best friend in my first year of life

here was “ Loneliness.” With the time passing by, I was not

a rose anymore, I became a cactus which

could survive without lots of sunshine and water. Do you know

how hard it is to make a rose become a cactus? However, to be

honest, being a wife is never easy, so it is good to be as strong

as a cactus. Though the first year was so tough, at least I had

your father, who was a good husband helping with some

housework and trying his best to comfort me when I was

crying, that’s why I still survived in Chicago and planned to

have a baby two years later then. I wish when you read

this letter twenty-five years from now, I will be happy

and healthy and attend your wedding although you will

leave me for a long time after you become another

man’s wife. In spite of the challenge and conflicts lying in

a marriage, never forget that you can still enjoy the fruit

of your hard work while you are suffering. Without marriage

and suffering, I couldn’t have a wonderful daughter like you

in my life, right?


Take care!

Your mom


p.s 我還沒有小孩唷, 這純粹是英文課上的寫作練習...

註:

cactus 就是