Saying good bye to my children & Tony’s out of luck continued…
12 April 2007I’ve been saying good bye to each of the children in my heart. They don’t know I’m going yet, but I just hate to think of crying when I go. I’ll wait ’til I’m on the plane or even at home. The Lord is merciful, and I am grateful for such a wonderful experience here. Though I may never see these little ones again “Mwen timoun…” I will remember them always, and greet them in heaven joyfully.
So, Jojo took Minnie and I to the Market last Saturday and we shopped around we saw Denise so we took some milk to Willtosso after we were done. On the way there we stopped and got Tropica and King Cola for Jojo. He showed us his house and we met his Grandmother, I was thirsty again so I bought us all a second round of drinks, this time it was something similure to Tropica, but a little different. Every once in a while Jojo would bring up Tony, and try to tease me. It was still funny, then just as we were coming out of town who do you think is riding his bicycle with a handful of cds? Well, it was him, on his way to drop some music off somewhere, but he just had to stop because he saw me. I quickly put my sunglasses on. Jojo, thinking it was a good joke still decided to translate for Tony. the conversation goes as follows -
Tony: “Mary, mwen femal…paske anpil anpil anpil renmen ou…”
Jojo for Tony: “He says he missis you very very much, you make him hurt because he does not see you”.
Me: “OK, um, tell him there is no school so I do not walk by”
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Jojo for Tony: ” He says he is taking English classes so he can talk to you. He says he loves you very much and wants your email address.”
Me: “Tell him I will give it to him on Tuesday, but I’ll only be his friend.”
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Tony: “ohoh mwen femal anpil anpil anpil” (gesturing with his hands over his heart)
Jojo for Tony: “He says this will make him hurt a lot”
Me: “tell him I’m sorry, but I won’t write him any other way” (not that I planned to write him for sure, but I could see where things were going.)
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Jojo for Tony: “He says OK. He says “what if I want to come to see you?” He needs to get a Visa. To get a Visa, he has tried all of the ways, but he has to wait a year or get married to an American.”
Me: “Tell him the way my family believes he needs to ask my Father first before he even writes to me.” (This was where I was sure he’d try to talk me around and I would just leave it at that, but he didn’t.)
Tony: “Oke, mwen ekri ou papa,”
Jojo: “hahaha” for Tony:”He says he will write to your Father, can he write him at your address?”
Me: “Um, yes”
Jojo for Tony: “He wants you to give me your email address today to give to him”
Me: “no, I will ask my Dad first.”
Well somehow the discussion ended with Tony suggesting we get going so we don’t all have to stand in the hot sun.
Jojo laughed all the way home… Pretty much, I tried to reason with him, but he got started on this “what if you marry Tony” thing and we went on for quite some time. Then finally he said “You won’t marry Tony, because he will get his Visa and say soo-long, I found another woman”. I was like, “exactly”. Then we got home, and Jojo told Cedeiu and Roberto the big joke and they laughed and teased me about my engagement. I’m glad I am tolerant of teasing, because I seem to get myself in enough scrapes that I deserve it…
It didn’t end here, Pat was told about it before I even reached the house, and she flew off her handle, only because she wasn’t feeling well, so I thought I was in a bigger mess then I was, but she did request that I not give Tony my email. Poor Tony. Well, Thym thinks it’s pretty funny and on Tuesday when Tony tried to give him a letter to deliver to me, he refused it and came home to tease me about it. The big joke is that I will be kidnapped on my way to the airport… Thym asked me this morning “If I ask you something will you tell me the truth?” I said “sure”, he said “OK, why are you scared of Tony?” I said “haha, I’m not, grandma is.” I’m not right? Well, no, but I wish I had more sense when it comes to saying “NO” to people that I really cannot have even a friendship with.
Stumble it!
3 Responses to “Saying good bye to my children & Tony’s out of luck continued…”
April 12th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
I bet it’s gonna be hard saying goodbye! *sniff*
Good for you, sis!
Poor Tony…lol
April 14th, 2007 at 11:38 am
Ack, I’m just going to do what Jojo said “don’t worry about it.” but it’s still going on, he called 3 times this morning… hehe
April 15th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Yeah…don’t worry about it is a good idea