The eighth message

Dear LaLa,

Thank you for your eighth message.  My comments follow.

So sorry my comments are late.

Enjoy your summer break!  What summer plans do you have?

Sincerely,

Prof. Sue Stiner

Dear Dr.Stiner

Thank you for your reply and the corrections of my English.

1)　Yes, my first cousin was in Harbin, my hometown.

LaLa, please forgive my ignorance of China.  I assumed Harbin is a town

name.  If it is a province name, then the sentence should be: Yes, my

first cousin was in Harbin, where my hometown is.

She is my mother's brother's daughter.

We lived so near each other when she was a child.

So I have seen her grow up, before she went to school.

She was such a cute girl and always so high spirited.

I love her so much. I want to have a daughter like her.

Now she is 12 years old and entered junior high school in this spring.

I didn't see her for four years, since I came to Japan.

I haven't seen her for four years, since I came to Japan.

That must be hard, to be away from your cousin!  Do you write to her?

Do you email her?

2) I haven't found the best place for me yet.

That's fine.  You still have your whole lifetime ahead.

But the Buddhist temple is a special place for me. The reason isn't for My family is Buddhist. The reason isn't because my family is Buddhist.

I think I am Buddhist, too, but I don't go to any Buddhist services.

I have been visit a Buddhist temple at six years ago in ShenZhen.

I visited a Buddhist temple six years ago in ShenZhen.

The temple was built on a mountainside.

The scenery was very beautiful. In the temple, it felt like being in another world.

It felt like a calm sea.  I can't put it into words.

I think you did a good job putting your immpressions into words.  What a

wonderful place that must have been!  Have you seen any Buddhist temples

in Japan?

3)Thank you for send me the file of American's wedding.

  I opened the WORD file,

I got the impression that the church is 148 years old.

You are correct.  That is a very old building for the US.

In Harbin, the bride and the groom are just have one bridesmaid and

one groomsmen. In Harbin, the bride and groom have just one bridesmaid and one groomsman. It was unusual, even in the US, to have such a large wedding party. The bridesmaid and the groomsmen are sisters and brothers who isn't

same parent, a newly-married couple and friends.

In the US, the bride and groom choose their wedding party from the same

group of people as brides and grooms in China.  The parents of the bride

and groom have other roles.  When the bride's mother is seated in the

church, that is the signal that the wedding ceremony has begun.  The

father of the bride usually walks his daughter up the aisle to the

groom.  The father then says aloud that he (or sometimes he and his

wife) gives his daughter to the groom.  The day before the wedding, the

grooms parents host the rehearsal dinner.  The wedding party goes to the

church to practice the ceremony.  Afterward they go to dinner at a nice

restaurant.  The groom's family pays for the dinner.

In China, different cities have different customs for weddings.

I don't know all of those.

In the US, it is customary to have two or three bridesmaids and the

same number of groomsmen.  As you see, though, there can be variations.

HOMEWORK

1)The new Net Income is US$29,626 (twenty nine thousand six hundred

  twenty six US dollars).

Correct!

2)The ! new Net Income is US$9,626 (nine thousand six hundred twenty

  six US dollars).

Correct!

3)The Net Loss is US$5,000 (five thousand US dollars).

Correct!

Vocabulary:

English             　　　　             Japanese

Thank you for the vocabulary list.

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