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Icecream Competition

Linkoping

sunny 9 °C
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With Xiaoyu, we started to have a competition on icecream, glass in Swedish.

Actually I did not get any clear idea on how much icecream we had stuffed in the stomach, till I saw the pile of icecream boxes next to the front door. Xiaoyu nodded to me,"yes, that is all so far", while I was surprised at that pile.

We normally bought the whole box of icecream, sometimes the smaller ones and the bigger ones too.

I always asked to buy icecream, but he never wanted to lose the competition.

One day, he told me,"you should take it away from me, otherwise I will eat all of it." That is 2-liter box. He said that he once got that kind of amount for one time.

I wanted to stop eating icecream, but it was filled up with my mind.

We went to the icecream shop, which is the most famous in Linkoping. As usual, the waiting line was long and wand out of the shop door to the center of the street.

When we came out with two cones of icecream at hands, I saw the people around there all eating or licking up those purple, brown, white and so on.

He is not able to control the drops from the melting icecream, and it is of course that those spots dropped on his hand, T-shirt and pants.

He likes to call me Ms. Mess, but he was Mr.Mess that day with yummy icecream.

Posted by minfreya 15.04.2007 06:16 Archived in Events | Sweden Comments (0)

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XiaoYu

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Xiaoyu, my friends and even my parents start to call him this now. Anyhow this is his Chinese name, actually Chinese nick name.

He was sitting there, just before me, in the chair. All his back was lying into the back of the chair. I prefer to call this chair sofa, but he told me that it was a chair.

His eyes were shining from time to time while he saw me directly into my eyes. Then I was just like swimming in the summer’s sea, warm and soft, the waves coming not to cover me, but hug me whole.

I enjoy to swim in the sea under the sun and it is just gorgeous to feel the warmth coming out all the directions to the body, evey inch of the body. And then the sea’s tender fingers are touching my skin, straight to my empty mind. My thoughts are vaporized in the sun.

He does not eat so much sweet as I usually do, but it is strange that he is so sweet. He could cook the best yummy foods in this world, but he would like to choose to hide himself behind me.

I did pancake the first time, and did not know, even now I do not know how to cook it. But I tried, and obviously I failed.

I prepared all the stuffs I need to make pancake and then pour dough into the pot. The most difficult part is to turn it over and then it became something else. He was smiling to me, “I can survive”.

The bad thing to me is I had to ride the bike with feet brake. I could say that every bicycle in China is not so difficult to learn like that and I even don't have any idea if we have such kind of bicycles in China. But he has, most people there have that kind too.

I needed to remind myself all the time, “backward is going to bake, backward”, at the beginning of the little “training”. He was far ahead of me every time, but he was always slowing down and waiting. The first part was over and then the new came. I had to handle with the slope while braking there and then starting there again. I even bursted into him and his bicycle several times, when he had already been waiting by the traffic line. He still kept himself in front of me and then turned to have a look at me several times while cycling.

We cycled to the bird tower once, even he was forced to do it at the begin, but actually he enjoyed all the views very much, just like I did.

He likes to throw stuffs instead putting them down carefully. So “Bing Bang, Bing Bang” sounds all the time while he is doing it. It seems that is cool to do so.

He becomes a big boy while staying with his parents. He acts like a spoiled boy. It is not difficult to find out that his parents do not bother by spoiling him. They love each other, I know. When three of them were just sitting by the table and looking out of window quietly, there is no doubt that they are just the family.

It seems that he never told his mom how excited he was when he found out her favorite owl collection. He told me every time when he held one kind of owl souveniors in hand, “mom likes them very much and she collects all of them.” He never forgot to pick up those little owl stuffs from the piles of the others.

He showed me around when we were at his parents’ house. Full of owls, everywhere, and dozens of them. He introduced them, the colletions, to me interestingly, like talking about his own collection. And he did the introduction about his father’s fishing too.

While stuffing self to the sofa, he looks like mind-empty. While watching the documentaries, he put all of self into it, concentrated even not hearing anything around him. While watching ice-hocky, he is only interested in his favorite team, even he told me that he liked that sports very much. When I was shouting for one goal or one failure, he was lying on the sofa and biting his fingernails.

There are much more about him, Xiaoyu, the lovely, sweet and cute Xiaoyu.

I prefer to call him Xiaozhu, because of all of the reasons.

That is him, my sweet laogong, my husband, Fredrik.

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生日聚会

Linkoping, Sweden

9 °C
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小鱼妈妈今天打扮得很漂亮,红色的上衣和黑色的裙子,一双黑色的丝袜。
下午三点,她问大家喝茶还是咖啡。下午茶时间到了。
大家都围坐在厨房的餐桌前。
瑞贝卡把蛋糕放在小篮子里,小鱼的妈妈在一旁沏茶。
她首先把茶叶放进圆头的小夹中,再把夹子浸在茶壶里。在等待茶味散入水里的片刻,她拿出茶杯,一个个地递给我们。
茶好了,她从茶壶里取出小夹,给每个人倒满茶。
茶闻起来甜甜的。大家一边喝,一边咬着烘烤成金黄色的蛋糕,一边聊天。
杰西卡能讲很多有趣的事,吸引大家的注意力。一会儿的工夫,小篮里的蛋糕都不见了。就连最小的孩子,佛莱西娅,也丢下平时最爱的奶酪面包,抓向放在一旁的蛋糕纸。
小鱼妈妈基本充当了我的翻译,虽然小鱼经常笑话她的英语不标准,夹杂着瑞典词汇。
吃好喝足,孩子们和小鱼端着气步枪去后院打靶。小鱼妈妈和杰西卡留在厨房,准备晚餐。
她们端出各种盘子,把水果切片,再把它们一一摆放在大盘中,摆出不同形状。
杰西卡用锡纸裹好鸡腿的一端,和水果放在一起。
等到孩子们再出现在厨房时,桌上已经摆满了准备好的晚餐,都用塑料纸封好。
光看着各种盘子不过瘾,小鱼妈妈注意到了,告诉我们,“想吃就先吃吧”。
我们开始抓饼干吃。她在一旁提醒,那是小鱼最爱的饼干。
门外传来了汽车声。孩子们还有狗一下子都跳了起来,往大门口冲。
杰西卡的父母来了,还有孩子们的爸爸。
他们和小鱼妈妈相互拥抱后,递给她一个个包好的盒子。她边谢谢边拆开包装纸。
小鱼爸爸给妈妈的礼物是一张玫瑰卡片,还有一束玫瑰花。妈妈把花捧在鼻前闻闻。
瑞贝卡抓过玫瑰花,也使劲地闻了闻,然后凑近我们每个人的鼻子,也让我们闻闻。
原来今天是小鱼妈妈的生日。
互相寒暄了一阵,小鱼妈妈宣布晚饭开始。
大家依次拿上餐盘、刀和叉,从一堆食物中挑选自己喜欢的,最后再放上奶酪。
餐厅已经点上了蜡烛,壁炉里也添了柴,燃起了火。
我们在桌前坐好,倒好饮料或者啤酒,开始吃起来。
小鱼的妈妈最后一个进来坐好。大家已经热烈地讨论起来。
阳光进了餐厅,照在每朵花上。
小鱼的妈妈在桌子的另一只角听着大家的闲聊。
每个人又都回到厨房再添了吃的,鸡腿、熏肉、水果、蔬菜沙拉、土豆沙拉还有奶酪。
吃好的人把刀叉放好在盘子的同一侧,继续闲聊。
小鱼爸爸和杰西卡的爸爸起身准备离开。
小鱼妈妈从桌子的另一端告诉我说,“老人准备出去散步啦”,大家都笑了起来。
我们也打算加入他们的散步。
在我们离开餐桌前,她问我:“散步回来以后,你打算喝茶还是咖啡?”
“茶,喝茶就好,”我回答道。
散步结束回到餐桌前,桌上已经摆好了茶杯、咖啡杯,还有蛋糕。
小鱼妈妈自己做的蛋糕。蛋糕上面是一层橙子,吃到蛋糕中间,是另一层橙子。难怪之前我看到水池里堆满了橙子的空罐头。
大家轮流切下蛋糕,放到自己的盘里,然后就是一阵刀叉声音,还有聊天声。
小鱼的妈妈今晚说话很少,杰西卡是聊天的焦点。
杰西卡的爸爸也讲了笑话,关于不同地区瑞典人的笑话,逗得大家笑个不停。
我们打算收拾餐桌时,小鱼的妈妈说:“等每个人都回家以后再收拾吧。”
我们没有带礼物,所以要补上,还有一份给小鱼爸爸。
7号,星期六,复活节,家里的每个人还要再去小鱼父母森林里的家。
祝他们复活节快乐!祝大家复活节快乐! Glad påsk!

Posted by minfreya 12.04.2007 11:26 Archived in Events | Sweden Comments (0)

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森林里的家

Linkoping, Sweden

9 °C
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小鱼的父母和我们商量好了,这个周末我们去他们在森林里的家。
森林里的家离城市半个多小时,小鱼的妈妈开车来接我们。
小鱼的妈妈去了超市后,打电话告诉我们她等在公寓的路口。
她很高兴看到我们。上了车,我们就直奔他们森林里的家。
森林里的房子,小鱼的父母买下用作夏天度假的野营地,但八年以前,他们决定把家搬进森林里。
房子在买下前就已经有了一百多年的历史,所以决定买下来时,小鱼的妈妈很担心这样的房子还能不能住。但爸爸是这方面的能手,在他的亲手整修下,房子变了样,在我看来,是一栋新的、可爱的家。
从城市到森林里的家,经过了一个村庄和一个超市后,我们就从湖边公路上了山间小道,公共汽车失去了踪影。
路上的石头在车胎的作用下飞了起来,打在车身上。一路都是“嘣、嘣”的声音。
路的两边全是直直的、白皮的树,还有绿色的松树。
我们经过了几家独立的房子后,是另一个村子,再是一片草地,左转、右转,再右转、左转后,车子放慢了速度。
小鱼的妈妈告诉我们说,到了。
我意外地望车外看去,我们停在一个红色的、没有门的车库前。再往前看,是几栋红色的房子。
小鱼父母的房子是红色的两层楼,白色的窗户,绿色的大门,还有白色的门廊。
小鱼的妈妈告诉我说,绿色的门是她的父母房子的门。重修房子拆下后,她就把它搬到了这里。
房子买下后,小鱼的爸爸就开始翻修整栋房子,地板、墙壁、屋顶、门、厕所、花园、仓库、车库,还有水管、下水道。小鱼和哥哥也帮了不少的忙,挖引水管的土槽、运屋顶的砖瓦、碾平地板的水泥,还有种花。
小鱼的妈妈有很多照片,我从照片里看到了整个翻修房子的过程。
厨房里有一个很古老的灶,听小鱼的父母说,它和这栋房子一样,有一百多年的时间。他们还在继续使用它,作为取暖的工具。
老灶烧的是柴。柴劈得整整齐齐地放在灶前的一个篮子里。
吃过晚饭,小鱼的爸爸拿出他收藏的两封信,是他们搬进来时在地板上发现的。一封是1902年从美国寄来的,里面的笔迹很潦草,看不懂,但能肯定的是,是女儿写给妈妈的。
小鱼的妈妈喜欢收藏猫头鹰,所有有猫头鹰图案的东西她都收集。她把这些收藏摆在了房子里的每个地方,到处都是。
还有小鱼哥哥的三个孩子,小鱼的妈妈把他们的照片挂在进厨房的门口,或者放在厨房的餐桌上。她还用他们的照片做成日历,也挂在厨房的墙壁上。
小鱼和他哥哥用的小床,现在还放在二楼的小卧室里,是哥哥最小孩子的睡床,上面堆满了各种玩具。
即使一岁的生日礼物,小鱼的妈妈也保存得好好的。一只棕色的小熊放在二楼电视房的椅子上,一个迷你的铁熨斗放在进厨房门口墙壁的展览搁板上。
小鱼的妈妈喜欢十字绣。她的作品在每个房间里都会看到,有挂在墙上的画,有铺在桌上的桌布,有摆在沙发上的靠枕。
她还喜欢花,摆放在厨房里、餐桌上、窗台上,还有走廊里。爸爸也很喜欢花,他有自己的温室,那是第二个了。第一个是木头做的框架,和房子翻修工作一起完工。第二个是小鱼的哥哥和小鱼送给爸爸的生日礼物,他们在原来温室的地方重修了现在的这个,合金的框架。
小鱼的爸爸在老房子里还发现了一个鱼竿,不长,所以他推断那可能是孩子用的。他把它挂在了餐厅的墙上。
吃了午饭,我们到山上湖边散步。小鱼的妈妈在路边发现了几朵野菊花,她说那是早春的花儿。她摘了下来,回家就放在了小杯子里。小小的杯子上也是几朵菊花的图案。她告诉我们,小小的花儿很快会长高。

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瑞贝卡

Linkoping, Sweden

9 °C
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瑞贝卡,是三个孩子中的老二,九岁没到。在她妈妈和爸爸生日聚会那天换了三套衣服,紫红色的礼服、牛仔裤还有短裙.
她是家里的另一只小猴子,还有就是弗莱西娅,一岁的妹妹.每个人都这么说.
第一次见到她,就知道大家说得没错.
她喜欢在小鱼的腿上蹦蹦跳跳,爸爸阻止了,妈妈也说了几遍,虽然我听不懂,但知道是让她快停下来,可她还是自顾自地边跳边笑个不停.
她终于还是停了下来,跳下沙发,跑进自己的房间,端出一堆盒子来放在大家面前.
她小心地打开一个个盒子,里面装的原来是她的耳环、项链和戒指.虽然才九岁,但她设计和串了大多数的项链和耳环.
一个盒子是音乐盒子.她打开了又合上,然后再打开.爸爸盯着她,她还是继续让音乐响着,要不干脆把耳朵贴在盒子里面听.
放好宝贝后,她跑出客厅.一会儿,闪闪躲躲地进了客厅,双手藏在后面,神秘地笑着.
直到小鱼把手伸到她的面前,她才猛地亮了出来,是一双新球鞋,有金色花纹的那种.
和我的脚丫比较了一下,她的鞋子大小竟然差不多.
不管我的当地语言水平几乎为零,她还是冲着奶奶的耳朵咬上一阵儿.奶奶转过头来告诉我说,她要带我看她的房间.
跟着她进了她的房间.
天花板上挂着一个disco用的发光彩球,电脑瘫在角落,书包丢在床上.占据大部分书桌的是她收藏的小马,各种各样,躺在那里.
在屋里转了一圈后,她停在门口的木箱前.
上面堆满了东西,最打眼的是一个房子样的盒子,里面装的是五颜六色珠子.
她指着小房子,叽里呱啦地说起来.我不明白.
她看着我,然后用力推开箱盖, 翻出里面的毛毛玩具,边翻边“自言自语”.
展示结束经过厨房时,她停下来指着冰箱上的吸磁草莓,边说着什么边拉开冰箱门,指点着里面一些东西,继续说.
她已经开始学习英语.虽然还没有听过她讲一句英语,但大家都认为她能听懂一些.
我还是点头,回答道,“是放了多少草莓吧”.她抬头看着我点了点头.
回到客厅,她爬上沙发继续玩蹦跳游戏.
她突然停下来,然后冲回房间再回来,伸手到我们面前摊开手心.
她手里躺着几颗五颜六色的珠子,小鱼拿了一个,我也拿了一个,剩下一个是她自己的.
“是口香糖”,小鱼告诉我.
我把蓝色珠子放进嘴里嚼嚼,果然是.记起来了,这些是放在小房子里的珠子.
第二次见到瑞贝卡,是再去他们家,参加她的爸爸和妈妈生日聚会.
她穿了一身深紫色的礼服,一双黑色的长袜,和一双黑色的低跟凉鞋.
她的小小表姐也在. 小表姐穿了蓝色的短裙和白色的高跟凉鞋,自己带来换上的.
瑞贝卡在前、小表姐跟在后,两人在屋里走来走去,踩在地板上“咯噔、咯噔”地响.
在餐桌上我发现了那个房子样的口香糖盒子.
上面有一个转盘.我转了转,但没有任何珠子掉出来.
拿给小鱼研究,也没有新发现.
他拿了问瑞贝卡的爸爸.
瑞贝卡的爸爸找出一个硬币递给我们,告诉我们说要往里面投硬币才行.
接过硬币,往转盘上的一个小口里一放,接着转动转盘,一个绿珠子落了下来.
瑞贝卡跑到餐桌前,先看了看我,然后神秘地冲着奶奶的耳朵叽叽咕咕一阵.
还是奶奶告诉我,她想让我和她们一起出去.但奶奶替我拒绝了.
她和她的朋友回到她的房间.一会儿之后,她们换了另一身衣服,然后跑出大门.
奶奶指着窗户外的一个小山坡,告诉我她们在山坡上的一个沙地上玩.

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