Джін тіан, во ден бу джі ша бан!
That says “Jin tien, wo den bu ji xia ban,” or “Today, i can’t wait to get off work!”
The phrase is in Chinese spelled out in Ukrainian letters. Once I download the Ukrainian cryllic alphabet, I can write whole entries in code and no one will have a clue as to what I’m saying. Possibly including myself.
This is besides the point. After work today I will be visiting a new friend named Олґа, Olga. I attended an ESL class yesterday at Middlesex County College to get a taste of what it is like to teach a bunch of non-English native speakers and was given the opportunity to meet a wonderful woman, a mother of three, who moved to NJ seven years ago from the Ukraine. She was so nice she invited me over to her house today to chat, tell me a little more about her home country and give me some lessons on Russian. She even offered me a place to stay in her mother’s empty apartment in Ukraine. I gratefully declined her offer but accepted the invitation to visit her this afternoon.
Olga's accent is rich and heavy, and in class when I paired up with her for a reading exercise, I could recognize her mistakes now that I have been vaguely acquainted with the Ukrainian language. To my great pleasure, she was deeply impressed that I could say “Украіна,” Ukraine, without a hint of an American accent. WOOOOO GOO MEEEE!!
:) Okay… work is crazy today. Bye for now.
