Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Marlene @ Beijing



I saw this "Intensive English" posted on a wall @ a street in Beijing. I kept laughing @ this every time i looked at it, but today.... i have different feelings about this.

There are groups of Chinese - who aren't highly educated - and doing own business - are so serious in trying to communicate with foreigner just to earn living for themselves. They tried many many ways to speak in english in order to get the business when anyone dropped by their shop- chinese or foreigner. People might tease them, laugh at them for the way they learn english (I was part of those bad bad people), but they ignored all the negative voices - just to try to learn what they want.

They are serious in learning these sentences. 
They ignored the bad voices.
They know what they want.
They tried their best to survive.
They feel proud and happy of what they can speak - if they manage to get the business.

Aren't they lovable? 
No wonder people surrounding me said this before: "God so loved the Chinese!"

God, I praise you for opened my eyes today.

在北京的女人街看到这个急应英语。似乎每一家店铺都有。
起初看到的时候,笑到翻肚,怎么他们可以这样翻译英文,而且... 太搞笑了吧!
Buy This - 败贼死 - 岂不是“失败偷东西的贼会死kiao kiao"

笑了很多天;笑了很久。
还到处发送给朋友,让他们和我一起"享受"这个"乐趣"。

今天不小心又看到这个急应英语。忽然很有罪恶感!

忽然见领悟到:

我是谁?怎么可以讥笑他们?

他们认真学习英语,想尽办法- 就是为了赚一口饭吃!
他们不理会别人的讥笑,认真的学习,只为了可以养活自己!
他们知道自己要什么!
他们对于自己可以做的简单英文,感到很满足!

我呢?
我是否太在乎身边得人怎样看我?
我有认真做每一样事吗?
我有感恩的心吗?

怪不得,有人说:上帝真得很爱中国人 :)

神啊!我感谢你 :) 

1 comment:

Juanita said...

Thank you for sharing this today. it is good to be reminded that not everybody has such an easy life, but they still work to make life better for their families.