Easter Monday !
Special thoughts with you today darling John, you loved the music of this season of hope and joy - I find it very moving listening to it without you- TT 💐
The Kindness of strangers- 2nd two weeks
I travel on the shuttle bus almost every day to get to the train station in Zongsye. I have been surprised at how many people have talked to me in english. One woman told me her daughter worked in America and while visiting her and she had picked up a little English . When she finished speaking to me I said my name is Helen , she responded with I am 82 :) Another woman got on the bus and sat by me her husband sat behind her. She had just come back to Taiwan after 45 years in Chicago . She told me she was 87 but her husband was old at 93. She was here to sell her apartment in Fontainebleau Apartments now that she was sure they would not come back to live.She told be it was going to be her sons 60th birthday this year and I told her I was her for my son's 50th birthday. Almost everything I told both of these woman they told the driver; who nodded and smiled at me. I met a school boy on the bus who asked me in perfect english where I was from; he was interest...
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