朋友的故事

losing a job in an economic crisis with nationwide layoffs is a misery. Make that losing the job at 50 of age, the torment doubles. the situation is never worse as the jobless man wants to go off to college to get the costly degree w/o some solid financial aid . such an experience befell my friend right after he celebrated his 50th birthday then lost his job.

not listening to his wife, he enrolled 3 courses for his stats program. his passion to obtain a statistics degree is so strong that he must be all by himself to find out how to get there because his wife didn't want to give him any financial supports .

he found that he qualified for some grant and loan, but these 2 could be only enough to cover his tuition and books. how about the mortgage for his townhouse? how about the bread and milk? how about the gifts to his wife? finally he got a FT job, washing dishes at a vicinal cafeteria.

his schedule was tight. he studied very hard even when working. he made flash cards putting them on the large metal dishwasher. After he loaded the racks, he flipped cards, learning the new concepts of stats, --learning how to get out STD, MEAN.... the water and steam broke down all around him. making his fingers wrinkled. many times his tired brain drifted off, and the dishes crash to the floor. his grades went down and down, never up :). It was the hardest work he had ever done, but was the one he could do to pay his food and room. their marriage was at stake since his wife could not bear such a trial for her stubborn hubby hadn't a decent job for almost 1 and half years and still pursued his costly degree. the old man was reaching onto the very verge of despair...

only angels could help him. Just when he thought he was going to drop out of his college career, an angel appeared?

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• 同事鼓勵我多練練小學生造句，於是學著造了１０來個句子。 -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 18:33:47

• hahahahahahahhahhahahahahahahha, this is the best -bearsback- ♂ (333 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 18:40:11

• mercy, mercy... don't laugh at my friend.. -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (116 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 19:05:18

• Right. I have never used a flash card. -bearsback- ♂ (76 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 19:38:36

• oops -bearsback- ♂ (34 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 20:25:25

• 不影響理解。你不說，我都不知道。 -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (84 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 20:43:33

• what? -bearsback- ♂ (30 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 20:47:12

• i knew it. -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (135 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 20:56:30

• to make it elaborate, -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (115 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 21:10:57

• 9章是大中華的精華。第九章是 -bearsback- ♂ (18 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 21:21:37

• :( -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (61 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 21:38:41

• 勾股 -bearsback- ♂ (19 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 21:52:27

• 送給戲雨飛鷹的朋友－－－歌曲視頻：祝你平安 -紫君- ♀ (475 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 18:44:49

• thanks, 紫君! 祝他平安,祝大家平安:) -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 19:00:01

• 戲雨飛鷹，你朋友的故事真感人，我讀了幾遍。 -紫君- ♀ (88 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 19:00:55

• 紫君， he's your loyal fan, 真的。:) -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 19:08:30

• 紫君，八十年代和九十年代初很多留學生都過著 -bearsback- ♂ (128 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 19:56:08

• 寫的很感人。你英語文筆絕對一流。能否介紹一下 -hahaman- ♀ (14 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 19:14:39

• 不好意思，好幾處語法錯。懶得糾正：）。 -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (65 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 20:39:04

• “故聞伯夷之風者，頑夫廉，懦夫有立誌” -走馬讀人- ♂ (120 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 19:34:08

• 走馬,你就是那wxc伯夷,美壇叔齊。我從明天開始，立誌圖強，haha -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 20:31:21

• No伯夷,no叔齊, no starving artist,haha -走馬讀人- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/14/2010 postreply 07:16:02

• 50歲讀三門課多了點。不過統計專業是很好的專業 -doitthen- ♂ (20 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 20:02:29

• 行者來了。西天取經路遙迢。統計的確是個 -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (109 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 20:26:52

• are you serious? -doitthen- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 20:29:09

• 當然認真的。那人奧林匹可數學拿過大獎，但對概率就不轉彎。 -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (61 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 20:35:21

• i am impressed -bearsback- ♂ (42 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 20:44:54

• 本故事純屬虛構 -灣玩挽萬- ♂ (20 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 20:09:49

• 練英語為主，講故事為輔。。。亦真亦假：） -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 20:19:02

• 對了，你是誰？好象見過你。 -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 20:20:08

• 寫得真不錯 -bearsback- ♂ (26 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 20:41:41

• 不是一兩處，是4 -5處。 -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (134 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 20:51:49

• really? i would -bearsback- ♂ (160 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 21:05:40

• 你的英文要待加強？ -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (143 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 21:35:28

• I was telling -bearsback- ♂ (9 bytes) () 04/13/2010 postreply 21:49:53

• 細雨飛鷹 -hahaman- ♀ (141 bytes) () 04/14/2010 postreply 12:14:05

• haha, nice poem. listen, dear poet:) -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (144 bytes) () 04/14/2010 postreply 15:04:39

• change the last line to: -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (29 bytes) () 04/14/2010 postreply 15:19:44

• cow is good -hahaman- ♀ (98 bytes) () 04/14/2010 postreply 16:04:54

• hahaha, nice! okok,那我接著寫個下篇，讓我朋友辭職，讓位 -戲雨飛鷹- ♀ (38 bytes) () 04/14/2010 postreply 16:13:46