Anyhow, I got a reply from them that was quite humorous:
Dear Mrs. Tan
We have received your letter and we wanted to say thank you for sending it. We just wanted to know what it is doing in Vancouver, because we wanted to know if you got any snow like we did. Oh we forgot to say we just had a snow storm yesterday so we ended up with a snow day. How is the weather up in Vancouver?
Hi Mrs. Tan if you ever got fired you know where to come! But we know that you won't get fired because we know you are the best teacher! We hope you come back, and we have two new students in the class, Josh. T and Cole which gives us 28 students. We have nine girls and nineteen boys. Anyway we all want you to know that we miss you and we hope that you miss us to.
What grade are you helping in your new school? We hope that you are doing well there and we hope that you can visit us next year some time. What grade do you think you will be teaching in 2010? We hope that you make it as a teacher! We are all sad for you because you are gone. You are very special to us!
Are you crying yet? This class is getting pretty darn crazy, including the kids you had last year! Our class is so happy that you sent us a letter. Are you having fun as a teacher? Do you have any tickets to the 2010 Olympics?
How is British Coulumbia? How is the air there? Can you name all the kids that you are helping? Oh and what types of languages do they speak out there? We really miss you Mrs. Tan. We hope you have a great weekend. Could you please tell the kids out there some great places to visit out here like Fredericton, PEI, the caves. Could you please ask theme what would be some good places to visit out there?
Take care, and please write back soon,
Ms. O'Blenes' grade four class.
Turns out that they wrote sections in groups which is why it's quite repetitive. I found the part about me getting fired particularly funny. It definitely put a smile on my face!
In other news, CE and I went on our first official house hunt with our realtor on Sunday. We took her car and let me tell you, I've never been in one like that before! She owns a Mercedes Benz that has so many "toys". Keyless entry and startup, when she reverses, there is some sort of video camera on her tail that allows her to see it on her LCD that's built into the dashboard. Additionally, that LCD can not only watch videos, but also is hooked up with her phone so she can make phone calls and see who is calling her. Who knows what else that car can do!? Ridiculous! I'd be happy just owning a new car that is not a Chevy! (Actually, I'm pretty happy that I even HAVE a car!).
Anyways, so back to the house hunt. We didn't find anything that was love at first sight, however, we did try to put an offer on a house. Not a townhouse, but a HOUSE. IT was priced for $488K and was actually quite large. We decided to go for it since the market has obviously fallen a great deal and this may be our chance to make a good investment. We hadn't really planned on making any offers that day, but because the realtor of that house was expecting an offer that night and our realtor said that it was "just an offer" and that there would be many loopholes to get us out of it if we didn't want the house (since it's 30+ years old). Anyhow, to make my long story short(er), we didn't get to place the offer because when our realtor called, their realtor was in the middle of presenting the offer to the owners who accepted.
I'm not really hugely disappointed as the house was really dated and I wasn't crazy about the layout. We are going to take a look at a bunch of other houses this weekend, so maybe we'll find something even better. Wish us luck as there are not many houses under $500K in Richmond and surrounding areas!! (I saw a ridiculous one in Richmond listed for...... $24M on MLS.. It has it's own pond and BOWLING ALLEY inside the house!!! A BOWLING ALLEY!! I thought that only happened on the Sims...)
So Valentine's Day is this coming Saturday. I am still a believer that this holiday is such a hallmark holiday and that it should NOT be celebrated for the sake of it being Valentine's day. I believe that we shouldn't HAVE to set aside one day a year to express our love to people we care about. I think the hearts and all that are very sweet and everything, but we should try to make an effort to celebrate it as often as we can.. and not necessarily through buying gifts, but just through caring and helping one another.
Alright. I'm stopping here before I become way to mushy.
Ciao.
posted by jaryee @ 12:32 p.m.
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