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It’s a happy time in my life with my little girl. It’s wonderful to watch her growing up, find her making progress everyday. The time is limited to be with the child, especially when she is very lit ...
jiayi 发表于 2009-4-27 11:36

                               
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a really lovely pearl! it is happy to be a mother.

jiayi

I read u  diary every day,it's really good job.
Frangkly, I admire u.
ONLY PERSISTENCE can improve  level of E , let us do it together.
希腊红酒 发表于 2009-4-27 12:09

                               
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Thanks for your encouragement.
I saw your IETLS learning record too. keep it up :)
I wish you pass the IETLS easily and earn a good mark.

jiayi

Watching TV is likely a one-way process, that you can only receive the information.

English is a tool for communication, and communication is an interactive process more than "receiving", you still h ...
Ruibin 发表于 2009-4-27 12:48

                               
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Thank you for your suggestion, I'll insist on keep writing diary in English. And I hope I can save more time to do other things such as watching TV, practising the oral speech.

jiayi

April 27,2009

How long do you sleep per day?

Usually I sleep from 11:30 to 7:30, some times less than 8 hours. But I think I didn’t get enough sleep. I felt sleepy, especially at 2:30 pm, I almost can’t open the eyes. Maybe I ate too much in lunch time. I found all my colleagues ate a little in the lunch. I heard eating too much in the lunch will effect person’s afternoon working, maybe it is right.

I think I am old. Why I need so much time to sleep. I saw your reply are on 12:09 and 12:48. Can you give me some suggestion to keep vigorous energy?

If there is a way to sleep less but can keep vigorous energy, it's perfect! I met a person did it well. She only need 4 hours sleep per day. She told me because she practiced 'FaLunGong' every day. Oh! my god! I don't want to do that.

jiayi

a really lovely pearl! it is happy to be a mother.
月明 发表于 2009-4-27 13:43

                               
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jiayi

April 28 2009

Today is a busy day.

It was rain heavily this morning. I was asked by the daycare teacher to take my daughter to see a doctor. So I had to stop my work. It spent almost 6 hours to see the doctor. When we got home, It was 5 pm.

In evening I began to package every thing in my home because we will move to another apartment. The time is limit , tomorrow we should clean the new apartment and carry part of stuffs there. The other things should be carried at the day after tomorrow. The room we live now is already rent to someone else, While the person who lived in our new apartment moved out today.

I still don't contact a internet agency , so maybe there are several days I cann't get on the internet.

What a mess!

月明

April 28 2009

Today is a busy day.

It was rain heavily this morning. I was asked by the daycare teacher to take my daughter to see a doctor. So I had to stop my work. It spent almost 6 hours to see  ...
jiayi 发表于 2009-4-29 12:43

                               
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today when i went out of the flat door, i found one family was moving out. a big truck was waiting there. maybe they are just tenants in the building and planning to move to their own house. as i came back the truck was gone, but there were still a lot of stuffs out of the flat door.

family moving is hard work. take care.

jiayi

I fell asleep several times today when I sat in the office. I am so tired and got not enough sleep. It’s just because the family moving.

I hoped I could move out as soon as possible before. After doing that, my baby doesn’t need to play in the basement activity room. We don’t need to share the washroom and kitchen with others. And I found it’s so boring to clean the rooms from upstairs to downstairs. The space is small, but when I cleaned it I found it’s so large. I am hesitate to buy a house now if I have money. How many energy need I invest for cleaning a house? But I like a garden. It comes into conflict, while it’s too early to think about it.

Any way, I am satisfied with the apartment although it’s only 1 bedroom and 1 living room. I like it’s separate. There are more closets, more space and less cleaning space than before.

The family moving is terrible. We had to make a move and take care of baby at the same time. So many stuffs need to move and every place needs to clean. It’s not weekend. We worked until midnight and go to work next morning. I don’t want to move any more unless we have our own house.

I can't upgrad the diary in home for at least 1 week because I still didn't connect the internet agency. But I'll insist on writing it.

jiayi

47# 月明
Absolutely. It's good to almost ending now. Thank you

jiayi

May 5,2009

I am coming back.

Almost everything is interrupted by the moving, such as Linc class, English journal, even working time ….  It was filled with cleaning up the room this time. Finally, it almost finished. The apartment looks like a home now.

I must come back now. Once you give up a thing you insisted on doing it before, it’s difficult to pick it up again.  I don’t like drink coffee but I have to drink one to keep me awake today. I am still tired so that’s all for today. I hope I can writing more tomorrow.

月明

50# jiayi

don't worry. take it easy.

jiayi

51# 月明

May 6,2009

I want to take it easy but I can’t. I am stressful by my poor English.

Normally, I don’t need speak English in my working time. I just sit in the office and do my own work.
Once I need to use English it’s dreadful, such as today. There were three things about my poor English.

1. Someone outside dialed my extension. I picked it up but I found I can’t catch his meaning. I had to say ‘sorry, my English is poor. I can’t understand your meaning, please redial another extension’. But he didn’t want to give up.
He repeated it once and again. I had to hang up and go outside, and found he is talking with another colleague later.

2. The accountant asked me something about my invoice but I couldn’t catch it. I had to say ‘pardon?’ He repeated it slowly but I still couldn’t understand it. Finally he asked somebody else translated it to me.

3.
Talking with the boss. He asked me about my working process. After I replied, he asked another question about the work but I didn’t hear it clearly, I just replied it as my thought. He had to remind me to listen to his question clearly. He repeated it again. In fact, I still didn’t catch it entirely but I can’t ask boss repeat it once and again. So I just tried to reply it. I am not sure if the answer is he wanted.

Oh, my poor English. What can I do with you?

月明

next time, if possible, you can ask them to talk via msn or email .  

your reading comprehension should be  good enough to understand what they mean, but your hearing is not. keep practising since you have that language environment.

jiayi

53# 月明

Exactly.
In fact, I always take a pen and paper when I meet my boss. Because it's hard to me to express my opinion in words. It's easier to be understood when I draw it in paper.

jiayi

May 07, 2009

On the way to my LINC class, there is an area of government low-cost housing estate.  Every family has a two stories townhouse with a yard there.

When I passed by there yesterday, I found a same thing in their yards. The yard is covered with weeds. There are so many dandelions with the little yellow flowers when the spring coming. It seems doesn’t have any care. The toys or the falling leaves were here and there.  While next to the yards, in the both sides of the road, the grass is weeded clearly because it is done by the government.  So many yards I passed by, but I just found one was cleaning up well and grew the flowers. It seemed so comfortable among those houses.

In fact, the level of the life living in the low-cost housing estate is not low. They just pay a little money for renting. And usually I see they have a BBQ in the yard, the music plays loudly. There are several cars in the front of the house.

On my way home, I found it is so beautiful in my neighbor’s yards. The yard is chockfull of beautiful flowers with different colors: red, white, pink, purple..... The grass is weeded clearly. The trees covered in blossom because the spring is coming.  It seemed so cleaning and so beautiful. A person will love life more when he sees it.

They are different living styles. I like the last although it need pay more energy.

月明

54# jiayi

you boss must be a very good person. at least have enough patience.

月明

55# jiayi

everyone has different choice. so the world is colorful. anyway, do what you like.  

jiayi

56# 月明
May 08, 2009

Absolutely. He is a very nice man. If not him, we can’t enjoy the Canadian life so quickly.

In fact I didn’t have any work experience in this area, and my English is poor too. He hired me just because my network and the low salary. He told me he gave me a Canadian experience so that I could find another job easier. In the past months, the company faced of criticism. Everybody in the company should be decreased the salary so that the company can survive.I thought it’s the time I should leave. I handed the project I had done and record what need to be continued. But I stayed later.The boss told me there was a new project for me, but till now I am still at leisure. if  I have a new project to do I hope I can handle it. If not, I still thank him. At least, I have some Canadian work experience.

I have no experience in searching job in Canada. But I found some times it’s by chance. Some one with rich work experience can not find a job at one time while another person maybe finds it. It needs patience. Such as my husband, he couldn’t find any professional job at the first landing time. However he found it easily at the second time. One of my friends did some casual job before, later he found the professional job.

Even you are doing a labor job. Please don’t give up searching job easily. There may be a chance, some times, in some where you still don’t know now. Ready for it, insist on it and wait.

I can not get on internet in my home yet. See you on Monday.

未飘落的雪

Ready for it, insist on it and wait.

GOOD LUCK!

月明

yes, opportunity is very important sometimes, but at least one must have some ability.