Friday, February 24, 2006
Eva
You may remember from an earlier post how I talked about meeting my new family in Taiwan. All those brother and sister-in-laws and nieces and nephews. One of the nieces was Eva. A really nice girl. She worked in an English language school and had gotten a promotion over the Chinese New Year's holiday. She was always happy and laughing. The first time we met, she showed me Shrek, her pet turtle, who proceeded to pee all over the kitchen table. For the rest of the two weeks I was there, Shrek spent about 23 hours a day snoozing under a heat lamp and the remaining hour eating leafy leftovers from dinner.
While I was there I helped her with pronouncing the school on her sweatshirt "Duke," not "Dukie" and let her know it was a school famous for basketball. She spoke excellent English and most of the time you didn't even notice an accent. The picture here shows here enjoying a cup of coffee during our big family Chinese New Year's reunion. This is how I remember her - always happy and laughing. At least I got to meet her - for you see in one of life's trials, she passed on the week after I left - much too soon, but I'll always remember her with that big smile on her face.
