Hiya friends and family!
In exciting, computer-related news: Our class has just learned how to use a webcam, is ready to tackle the complexities of Microsoft PowerPoint, and now understand what on God's green earth "blog" means.
So now, I'm giving the "Informatique A" kids their first chance to blog with you. If you have questions for them, want to practice your French, or simply would like to start an exchange of ideas, post a comment! (If it's in English, no worries, some of these guys are itching to put their language skills to good use.) More information to come from the wonderful world of Informatique Ditinn.
And now, for a message from Informatique A:
* In this translation, I've done my best to retain these
guys' tone of voice. They're an extremely polite, but quite silly
bunch. No wonder we get along well. *
Salut!
A vous nos nouvelles les plus agréables.
Selon le temps, c’est avec un grand plaisir que nous, les élèves
de Miss Aicha venant d’être initiés à l’outil informatique, vous fournissons
nos renseignements.
En effet, notre classe d’informatique a débuté en Octobre
2013. Elle est composée de six éléments,
dont deux filles et quatre garçons. Ainsi,
nous sommes très heureux de suivre les cours d’informatique avec Miss
Aicha. Ici à Ditinn, l’outil
informatique est rare. C’est pour cette
raison que nous avons jugé nécessaire d’appliquer nos profonds intéressements
au cours d’informatique.
C’est dans ce cadre que nous remercions le Corps de la Paix et
nous félicitons Miss Aicha, qui nous donne cette formation solide.
En ce qui concerne ce message, est que, nous voulons qu’il ait une
relation entre nous. Pouvez-vous
acceptez ?
Informatique A vous dit « au revoir ! »
Hello !
We're sending our warmest greetings your way.
At present, it is with great pleasure that we,
Miss Aicha’s newly-initiated computer literacy students, send you our news from
Ditinn.
In effect, our course began in October
2013. The class is composed of six
students; 2 girls and 4 boys. We’re very
happy indeed to be learning how to use the computer with Miss Aicha. Here in Ditinn, computer literacy is a
rarity, and that’s why we feel it necessary to apply ourselves, in all
earnestness, to this class.
With that said, we’d like to thank the Peace
Corps, and to congratulate Miss Aicha, who is providing us with this solid
training.
As for the main purpose of this message, we’re
reaching out to create a connection with you [to share ideas, stories, and news
from our two countries]. Would you like
to accept?
Informatique A, signing off!
Bonjour les stars de l'Informatique! Racontez-nous un peu comment le cours d'informatique de Mlle Aicha a débuté! Et puis, quelles sont les grandes nouvelles à Ditinn?
ReplyDeleteI accept! Nice to meet you, Informatique A. Unfortunately, I cannot speak French at all, but I guess you all can practice your English skills :)
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you're learning these great computer skills from Kelsey. I hope if you've learned to use a webcam, that means pictures will be coming soon. I would "wave" hello in a picture of my own, but it seems that this commenting system doesn't allow me to do any fun formatting or upload photos.
As Kelsey can tell you, I am her friend and was her roommate before she crossed an ocean to work with you!
I live in Boston, Massachusetts. It snowed here today - only an inch or two - and we're expecting about 6-12 inches Wednesday, some gross combination of snow and sleet and rain. I just returned from a weekend vacation with my boyfriend to visit his mom in Vermont, where it was even colder and was snowing the whole weekend. We celebrated her 60th birthday with her by seeing a play, cooking dinner at home, and having a big party at a B&B just over the Canadian border in Quebec.
Hope to hear from you again soon!
Alicia
Bonjour à tous! J'accepte votre invitation avec plaisir.
ReplyDeleteIt is so great that you are learning such useful computer skills!
My name is Carolyn and I have been a friend of Kelsey for several years. I live in Boston, Massachusetts and today, of all days, I am very jealous of you all because it has been snowing for the past day. We have about 12 inches (30cm) of snow right now and it doesn't seem to be stopping any time soon. En fait, it has snowed so much that school was cancelled today.
Speaking of school, I am sort of like a teacher here in Boston. I don't teach anything like Kelsey, but I do mentor and tutor students at my school. In the future, I am hoping that some of my students will write to you!
À bientôt!
Carolyn
Good morning, how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because trough them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately, it is impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are very small countries with very few population, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this, I would ask you one small favor:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Solomon Islands? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Solomon Islands in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Calle Valencia, 39
28903 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally, I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez