Catherineli

Hello everyone! How is every one doing? I have been building my life and still in the process of my transition. Today I have several questions to ask and to see who has the similar experiences: (1) Is there any official way to transfer my retirement money from China to America? I don't like to bother my friend and my family to mail the money to me. (2) Who can give me a link of western union please? I want to mail a few hundred bucks online to my sister who is in China. (3) Please shoot me a private mail if someone has a way for me to set up a "Trust" online. I bought a house and I want it to pass to my son years later. Xiexie dajia!

hahaha silly me, I was wrong. Yes, Mr. Randy was right. I was meaning DNR. I signed my name with two people as my witness. I'll go to my bank. I have never heard of "Advance Directive". I also like to do a TRUST. But I don't want to spend 1000 dollars. If someone gives me a link for me to finish the TRUST online, it would cost me 300 dollars. I will appreciate very much! Best wishes to everyone!

Today I have another question for you guys, I signed a DNA for myself. I also have two witnesses who signed their names for me. Is that all? Do I have to go somewhere to notarize it? Xiexie dajia!

Mr. Randy, I don't remember whether I have filed I-485 or not. I will fill it again in case I didn't. Thank you!!

Amberjack is a fish!! Other people asked you the same question

LOL I'm always curious with the name Amberjack. Would you please let us know why you call yourself Amber+Jack? I can't understand why Chinese Catherine is racial while Amberjack is not. This topic is a fun for me. I don't mean anything racial or rude. Randy, please change my title "Chinese Catherine" into a decent one but I give this fun to you, whatever you think it should be. Mr. Randy, my son's priority date becomes current now. What should I do? I'm not smart.

Hi Friends, Today I have two questions. (1) I have been in American for three and a half years so far but I still don't sense something sensitive. I call myself "Chinese Catherine" for fun or just to be funny. I called Randy "American Randy" once also to be funny. But other American people tell me that is rude or racial to for someone else to call me "Chinese Catherine". Do you guys feel the same? (2) After I applied for my son for his green card, it has been five years. I've forgotten where is the immigration website to check the information related. Now it's time for us to go through the paper work. What should I do now as the main applicant? My son has his working visa that allows him to work 6 years. But should I submit some forms or what? Randy, I need your help again. You used to tell me that I don't need to do anything. My son said the same. But I am just anxious. Thank you, Friends, for faithfully helping me. Best wishes! Catherine

Here is the Chinese Catherine again Here is the link, I found it finally. The inspiration is from American Randy Warren, Chinese people don't have problems saying I love you in English because they are speaking foreign language. Most don't say I love you in Chinese. Here is the link Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

HI Randy, Hi Warren, good to see you again! About "I love you" in Chinese culture, we used to laugh a lot here at CFL. It was very funny when Chinese children say "I love you Mom", then the mom asked, "Do you need money?" or sometimes, the mom laughed out loud. Someone posted the link about the "I love you----laugh", I just can't find it. I think many of us still remember our laugh about the Chinese customs.

Hi Friends, How is everyone doing? I've been doing very well with my new school. I'm still teaching ESL for a middle school. My students are from different countries. Next week, we will do a culture presentation. I lost the link on youtube about Chinese people's reaction to "I love you" or "Wo ai ni." Who can give me the link again please? It's a program by two young men talking about Chinese culture. Chinese people give a funny laugh at hearing "I love you". I can't find the link. Thank you everyone, in advance!

Wow, I have two writer friends now!! Congrats on myself! I understand that I should run on the sentences in clear English, not to try to "show off" my vocabulary. Thank you again!

Two questions please: 1, "Signified or represented" the filial piety of the family? which is better? Signify or represent? 2, cry to or at the top of their lungs? to or at??? I'm sorry to have asked too many questions. Xiexie da jia !!

Thank you very much Allon for taking the time to help me out with my silly composition. Thank you for the number theory. I'm glad that you understand the raft and logs in the passage. Thank you again. Have a good day!!

Hello my dear dictionaries, How is everyone doing? Today I would like some of you read another message that I wrote about funeral custom. I'm not so sure if you understand the word "raft" and "logs". Please edify for me just for fun. Gosh, please keep a record of my debt to you. I must return you one way or another. "The local funeral custom dated back to the primitive time when there was not a hearse in the countryside to carry the coffin with the dead inside. The family and friends made a wood raft that looked like wood fillet out of 8 logs, 32 logs or 64 logs based on the dead’s social position and the deceased’s family decision. Usually the wood fillet with 64 logs showed the highest social hierarchy of the family. If it was built with 8 logs, the raft was lifted up and carried to the cemetery by eight people. If it was built with 32 or 64 logs, the raft was lifted up and carried all the way by thirty two people or sixty four people. The whole funeral team looked like a parade marching down the street carrying the coffin with the raft. When my great grandfather passed away, the political situation was not so tense as it used though the government was encouraging cremation. However, my great grandfather’s offspring decided to have the funeral for my great grandpa in a traditional way. They built a big raft with 64 wooden logs to carry my great grandfather’s body to his tomb. According to the local culture, my youngest uncle was leading the funeral team followed by 64 people carrying the coffin. Every one of the team was wearing a white robe as the mourning dress. The whole family were supposed to cry all the way as loudly as they could. My family did not hire anyone to help cry but some families may spend money hiring people to join in the funeral team to cry to the top of their lungs. The crying sound and the number of people who attended the funeral team magnified the filial piety of the family." Thank you very much, everyone!

Thank you Dennis for still remembering me. Speaking English is my biggest challenge. By this age, it's too late to correct the accent. I'm very much pressured now with my new school. I'm going to teach ESL for three secondary schools on the same day next month. Among my new students are some Chinese kids. Chinese parents send them to America to receive American English but only to be trapped into another Chinese teachers' hands, me. So I'm very much stressed. I don't want the Chinese students complain about having a Chinese teacher in America. But I am very hopeless and helpless with my Chinese accent. On the other hand, I also know that I'm hired, which means I'm recognized and accepted the way I am. In one word, I'll lift up my chin and stalk out my confidence and faith in front of everyone. Two days after I applied online for the ESL job, I was officially hired on the third day. I've just moved to OKC, the same city with my son. My son and I are living in the same neighborhood, not in the same apartment. For my new job, there was no official interview either for me. No one has heard of such a miracle. My next dream is to publish a nice book that I wrote after I came to America. It's my autobiography beginning from my great grandfather's life. A few years ago, Dennis, Dr. Greg and Larry all helped me out with my first book. I'm still grateful to you buddies. So this time I am expanding my book into a better one. Publishing is a long, difficult process. I put my dream in God's hands. I'm going to attend a writers' conference. here is the Link https://www.eventbrite.com/e/red-sneakers-presents-the-2018-write-well-sell-well-writers-conference-tickets- I'm looking for a decent publisher to talk about publishing my book. So if you have some information, please let me know. Thank you again for helping me with English writing. Enjoy your evening, everyone! Cat

Thank you Dr. Greg and Dennis! I'll never finish learning English. Recently I got a free tutor one on one from the local library. I'm very excited now.

Greg, I'm soooo happy for your green card and your family is moving on. Super cool, finally! My friends, I wrote a little paragraph about the hardships in the past. but I would like it to be more vivid and humorous. Who would refine the paragraph for me please? Kang means bed here. "-------While fleas were capable of jumping many inches in the air, lice were slow moving and sedentary. Dealing with fleas was a much more intensive and frustrating experience. Once at midnight, my grandpa was woken up with a bite of an aggressive flea. After he failed to catch the annoying little thing in his half sleep, Grandpa stood up from his Kang with his two hands grasping his blanket tightly. He wanted to shake off the flea from his blanket to the floor. Grandpa stood by the edge of his Kang overlooking the floor hoping the flea tossed away to the floor. So he held up the blanket high in the air and swung it hard and violently to the floor. “Waa----waah-----Waa------” Guess what? Grandpa did not see a flea jumping to the floor but he saw his baby, my youngest uncle being discarded to the floor, naked, crying. Life was brutal and nasty. My youngest uncle must have been placed and wrapped up in the blanket. Thank you in advance to everyone! Catherine

I'm giving an account of how a Chinese family obtained their ranch before the Land Reform. It's a part of Chinese history. Thank you for taking the time to reply to me. Thank you Mr. Greg. How is your wife's green card procedure? Thank you Randy for being there.

"Helloooooo, who is there please?" Dear friends, I need your help again. I need an English term to mean " A large farm fenced or bordered by a horse running. In history, an emperor allowed a horse to run as much as the horse could, then a farm was enclosed tracing the horse foot step." I don't want to use plain English but I can't find professional terms or more vivid ones. Thank you in advance!

LOL, Mr. Hero Amberjack, you're my second Christian friend!! Did you push down by naked hand or you had some sort of paper to use? My lady friend took use of a piece of paper to push down the toilet treasures lol. You know that there was not toilet paper in the train toilet years ago. Randy, I'm learning a new expression "WWJD"? Do other people understand it at other occasions? Xiexie Randy! Zhou mo yukuai!

This old styled toilet reminds me of some Americans who don't know how to use the toilet. I wonder who has ever sit on the "ground"? LOL My another American lady friend set a good example for me as a Christian in China. We were traveling to somewhere by an old-styled train. A bathroom sink was filled up with stools and shits. My friend went in and squatted down by the toilet. She pushed all the dirty stuff by her hand to make the sink clear! At the time I thought every Christian should do this but I have never done it. I'm not a good Christian LOL

Thank you Mr. Randy. You're our walking dictionary now!

haahhaha, blueberry, bluebelly, hahahah, this guy didn't mean to offend or insult. She shouldn't have been upset. It frustrates me to see some American friends being unable to pronounce my Chinese name. Americans don't say "xiao" properly and my name "Jie" is difficult for them too. Today I have a different question for you guys who know more than I do. My son has his working visa now. So his visa from students' visa has been changed to a working visa. but I guess his working visa is still for a non-immigrant one. In 2013, I applied for his green card, which means he has a record of immigration tendency. My son wants to visit China by the end of the 2018 as he has not been back to China for more than five years. The problem is: Will he be denied to come back to America? I'm moving to another city so I may not have Internet until a few days later. Thank you everyone for being patient and helpful to me.

It's very hard to correct our pronunciation after we become adults. It's the same way that you can't change your southern English to New York English. "Once Okie, always Okie."

Hello Friends, I have a question now about China law for those who have experienced the same. I have an apartment in China whose title is my name. Now I wonder if I can sell or give it away to other people without me being present. I have written a delegating note with my fingerprints on it. Is that legally alright in China? I thought some of your Mrs. American may have experienced the same. Thank you in advance!