My second visit to the U.S.A.(9)— The world is so small
Yesterday afternoon I paid a visit to a Chinese family in the neighborhood where my son lived. I met the hostess of the family by chance while I was taking a walk around the neighborhood about two months before, then, who was holding her little daughter in the hand, standing in front of her house. I said hello to her when I walked past. We talked with each other only a few words. She told me that her parents would come to the US soon to help take care of her children. She would be pleased to be visited when her parents were with her family here. I haven't seen her ever since I met her last time.
Being busy with cooking meals, reading books, watching DVD, surfing on the internet these days, I could hardly remember to call at the Chinese house.
It occurred to me that I ought to call on the young woman’s parents whom I had known lately. We lived very near, I could see the back balcony of her home through the windowpane of my kitchen. I pressed the bell of her door and was invited into the living room. All the members of her family were at home. Because it was Presidents’ Day that day, some of the companies in the United States had a one-day holiday, her husband was off duty. I sat in the sofa chatting with the hostess, while her elder daughter watching animated cartoon on TV and her younger one sleeping. I was told that her parents would be here the next week. She was looking forward to seeing them soon.
After introducing ourselves to each other, I was amazed that the husband and wife were from Jinan City of Shandong Province in China. Unexpectedly, they came from the same city as I did. What a happy coincidence! We talked and talked, suddenly I felt close with her. It was more astonishing that her parents-in-law lived only one block away from the place where I used to work. My God, the world is so small!
Our conversation lasted two hours, then I said good-bye to her and went home.
昨天下午我去拜訪了住在我兒子小區(qū)的那家中國(guó)人。大概是兩個(gè)月前我剛到美國(guó)時(shí)，有一天我在家的附近散步，碰到了一位年輕的中國(guó)女士，當(dāng)時(shí)她手中牽著一個(gè)小女孩正站在她的房子門前。我走過時(shí)和她打了聲招呼，說了幾句話（因?yàn)殡x她十幾米遠(yuǎn)的時(shí)候，我聽到她在和她的女兒講中國(guó)話，所以我斷定她是中國(guó)人）。她告訴我她的父母快來(lái)美國(guó)幫她照顧孩子了，她很高興我到時(shí)能夠去她家坐坐。自那以后我再也沒有見到她。
由于整天忙著做飯、看小說、看光碟、上網(wǎng)，我都幾乎把這件事忘了。
昨天我突然想起該去她家看看了，說不定她的父母早來(lái)了。我們住得很近，從我兒子家的廚房窗戶就能夠看到她家的后涼臺(tái)。我按響了她家的門鈴，她把我讓進(jìn)了客廳，她全家人都在家。因?yàn)樽蛱焓敲绹?guó)總統(tǒng)日（每年二月的第三個(gè)星期一），有些單位放一天假，她的丈夫也放假在家。我坐在沙發(fā)上與女主人聊天，她的大女兒在看電視上的兒童卡通節(jié)目，小女兒在睡覺。她的父母下周才來(lái)美國(guó)，她盼著他們快點(diǎn)來(lái)到。
我們互相簡(jiǎn)單地自我介紹，令我驚奇地是他們夫婦都是山東濟(jì)南人，竟然和我是一個(gè)城市的。多巧??！我們倆聊了很多，我突然覺得我們的關(guān)系是這么的密切。更加令人稱奇的是，她的公公婆婆的工作單位離我的工作單位只隔著一條馬路。天啊! 這個(gè)世界真??！我倆聊了有兩個(gè)小時(shí)，然后我向她道別后回家。
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