Sunday, May 21, 2006

Friendly neighbours

Here in the village where we live there are a lot of international students. The mayority are Chinese and usually their parents come to visit for long periods of time. I have some neighbours from China who got married and the parents of one of them came for 6 months. They are not grandparents yet but love children so they take care of all the children of other students who don't have their parents here. They love my son, he is exotic to them I guess, fair skin, blonde and blue eyes. Everytime they get a chance they grab him and we try to comunicate with my few Chinese words and body language. We do our best but no much conversation comes across. But they are very friendly and they always give us dumplings and watermelon or whatever they have. My Chinese friend translated for me the other day and she told me that they are leaving to China tomorrow. I though I should do something to wish them a safe trip and to say thank you for being so kind to us. Following Gisele's idea I made them this potholder, with a watermelon on it, just like they one we ate together last Friday. I hope they like it.

Aqui en la villa donde vivimos hay muchos estudiantes internacionales. La mayoria son chinos y normalmente sus padres vienen a visitar por largos periodos de tiempo. Tengo unos vecinos de China que se casaron y vinieron los padres de uno de ellos por 6 meses. Aun no son abuelos pero les encantan los ninhos, asi que cuidan de los ninhos de otros estudiantes que no tienen a sus padres aqui. Ellos adoran a mi ninho, es exotico para ellos creo yo, piel clara, rubio, ojos azules. Cada vez que tienen la oportunidad lo cogen e intentamos comunicarnos con mis pocas palabras en chino y el lenguaje corporal. Hacemos lo que podemos pero no sale mucha conversacion. Pero son muy amigables y siempre nos estan ofreciendo comida china, sandia o lo que tengan por en medio. Mi amiga china me tradujo el otro dia que se van a China manhana. Pense que podria hacerles algo para desearles un buen viaje y darles las gracias por ser tan amables. Siguiendo la idea de Gisele he hecho una especie de manopla para agarrar recipientes calientes que tiene una sandia, como la que nos comimos juntos el Viernes. Espero que les guste.


7 comments:

woof nanny said...

Lovely. Nice colors. Nice keepsake for them.

Gisele Schoene said...

So colorful!! Beautiful combination of fabric. And it was so thoughtful of you.

Anonymous said...

Nice job on the watermelon quilty hot pad. They'll love it I'm sure!

African Kelli said...

That is lovely! You did such a nice job and it will be easy to pack. Good work.

Anonymous said...

Great potholders! Beautiful work!

Anonymous said...

Pero qué dificil con las curvas!! uy, me parece que ésto me queda muy grande...
Precioso y muy chulis los colores!

Anonymous said...

What a thoughtful gift!!