给民办幼儿老师们的一封信3篇 写给某某的信英语（合集20篇）

Summertime is the best time of the year. There is no school for months and

I get to do what I want. With no tests and no homework, Im as free as a

bird.

夏季是一年中最好的时光。(几个)月不用去学校并且我可以做自己想做的事。没有考试、没有作业，我自由地像只小鸟。

I do many things during the summer vacation. I relax by reading books and

watching TV. I also hang out with my friends or travel with my family. However,

I dont only play in summer. I take advantage of the free time to learn more.

For example, last summer I learned to swim. This summer I might study computers

or English. Summer vacation flies by fast, so its important to do as much as

you can.

暑假期间，我可以做很多事。我通过阅读与看电视放松自己。我也常常与朋友一起打发时间或者与家人一起去旅游。可是，暑假期间，我并不只是游玩。我充分利用闲暇时间去学习更多的(知识)。举例来说，去年暑假，我就学习游泳。这个暑假，我可能会学习计算机或英语(知识)。暑期过得很快，所以，对于你而言，应该尽可能做更多的事。

Dear teacher,

Hello!

It is also a harvest season and a safe season. On this special holiday, On behalf of all the students in the Class of Business School x, I would like to extend my most sincere holiday wishes to the teachers!

Time travel, the passage of time, in the blink of an eye we from a naughty child to sensible youth. Two years ago, it was the teacher who brought us to the university gate. In the past two years, we have felt the care of the teachers relatives.

As a Chinese saying goes, "teachers are teachers, so they impart knowledge and solve doubts". In the classroom, I can still see the busy figure of teachers. They impart their lifes knowledge to us without reservation and patiently teach us. I remember that one of our international trade professional teachers often give us lessons in sickness, listening to her hoarse voice so far I can not imagine; We did not have water to drink in the training room. She brought us water to drink by boiling it herself and took care of us like a kind mother.

"A day as a teacher, a lifetime as a mother," in the life of the teacher meticulous care to take care of us. Just entered the university we are not used to the university life, teachers often come to our dormitory to visit us and chat with us. I remember one time when a student in our dormitory got sick at 2 o clock in the evening. After dialing the teacher, the teacher immediately came to accompany him to the hospital. He didnt come back to school until 7 o clock in the morning. When we thank, the teacher said such a situation often happen, you do not need to thank, this is what we should do.

"Happy to go home, safe return to school" every holiday home, business school will be under the leadership of Secretary Xu visited each dormitory, exhort ten thousand safety first.

Out of the school, review the reading career bit by bit, campus events in mind. The heart of gratitude, the presence of exhibitors: do not forget the hard work of teachers, teachers do not respect the teachings. According to the preliminary understanding of the X class of business school internship situation is optimistic. Ask 13 classes of students, most of the number has been in the unit internship. There are internship in foreign trade companies, logistics companies internship also some in the factory tracking orders, like a large number of students chain classes are in the supermarket internship...... Different students are distributed across different industries. They are conscientious in their posts and study hard to live up to their teachers expectations.

Remember that President Wang once said to us: even if you go out of the school but the teachers and students love continuous, always depend on; On campus, you are proud of your school. On campus, the school is proud of you. We will return the teacher with excellent results, live up to the teachers expectations of us.

"Spring silkworm to the death of silk, wax torch ashes tears before dry", looking back yesterday, looking forward to the Ming Dynasty, we thank the teacher for our dedication. Finally to all the teacher sincere tunnel 1: "hard work, teacher!" And I would like to express my highest respect to you! May teachers flourish and peaches and plums fragrance all over the world!

advance

Salute!

My friends and I have planned to do something interesting. We write down

our future wishes and put them in a bottle. Then we exchange the bottles, making

it as our secrets. We make a deal to take it out five years later and see if we

have realize our dreams. No one knows what will happen tomorrow, but we are so

looking forward to the moment when we open the bottles.

Today is the weekend， usually tired of the physical and mental relaxation!

I hide in the quilt until noon to get up. At this time， my father took me up to

go to the park to play together. Suddenly， it was all over! The beautiful

scenery of the park makes my mood better， today is really happy!

May Day is coming. I?m so happy because my father and my mother take me to

WuQuan Park this holiday. In the park, I see many trees and beautiful flowers.

There are many children and many happy playing games, too.

My parents take me to the zoo. There are lions, tigers, eagles, bears,

deer, monkeys, and so on. I like the monkeys best because they are very clever

and they make us laugh. How lovely they are!

I have a good time that day. What a beautiful and happy holiday.

【参考翻译】

五一节即将来临。我很开心,因为我的父亲和我的母亲带我去五圈公园这个节日。在公园里,我看到很多树和美丽的花朵。有许多孩子在快乐的玩游戏,。

我的父母带我去动物园。有狮子、老虎、鹰、熊、鹿、猴子等等。我最喜欢猴子,因为他们非常聪明，他们让我们开怀大笑。他们是多么可爱啊!

那天我玩得很开心，多么美好快乐的假日啊。

dear leaders, dear students:

hello everyone! my name is _, very honored to be in this special and

profound meaning of the moment, lecture speech.

in may 4th 90 years ago, more than 3000 beijing students shouted "defend

our sovereignty, punish the traitor," cancel "twenty-one", "refused to sign the

treaty" and other slogans, opened a new chapter of the chinese revolution. this

is a far-reaching great patriotic movement, but also a profound ideological

liberation movement and the new culture movement.

yes! this is the five four great patriotic movement.

in this surge high and sweep forward the revolutionary youth movement,

patriotic spirit, the spirit of democracy and science cohere, common to create

both a profound connotation, and distinctive characteristics of the times spirit

of "five four". "five four spirit" is the embodiment of chinese youth, patriotic

enthusiasm is a pursuit of the spirit of progress, is a kind of brave, tenacious

struggle of the spirit, it is the revolutionary predecessors, left us a valuable

spiritual wealth of the chinese nation, patriotism, progress, democracy,

scientific.

nsibility, is the glorious tradition of chinese youth movement since five

four. we should further carry forward the glorious tradition of today, to

shoulder the historical mission of contemporary youth gives us. in order to

realize the comprehensive construction well-off society, constructing the

harmonious society, to build china into a prosperous, democratic, civilized

socialist country, and realize the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation and

work!

however, bacon once said: "youth is perishable, and you spend it, time will

abandon you." as the new century, the youth, is a front, we are the first to

touch our heart era, affects the pulse of the nation.

as the new century college students, we should establish lofty ideals.

people can enjoy a life of youth, when a person put their own lives and the

people closely linked to the cause when he was young, he created the eternal

youth. we must study hard, determined to become. in twenty-first century, the

exchange of information is more and more widely, the renewal of knowledge

greatly speed up. the situation is getting better and better self-improvement,

inspiring. we should keep up with the pace of the times, to better contribute to

the modernization drive must learn and learn again, and lay a solid foundation

of knowledge. we should be good at creating, in learning to be good at

innovation, good at practice, be good at the learned knowledge to improve self,

self, continuous development.

we should pay attention to moral temper. good moral character is essential

to human life. to promote integrity in the whole society, is fastidious about

the civilization today, has become the young students intellectuals should

establish correct world outlook, outlook on life, values, establish a correct

outlook on fame, and strive to cultivate good character, improve the

comprehensive quality, perfect personality, good for the country and the

people.

Dear Editor-in-Chief,

Congratulations on the 5th anniversary of Global Mirror!

I’m a regular reader of your newspaper. I like it so much that I hardly miss any copy.

There are many advantages of Global Mirror. Firstly, Global Mirror covers both national and international news. By simply turning the pages, I can know all important things that have happened both home and abroad. Besides, the success stories of world-famous people are also attractive to me, which help me learn a lot from them. In a word, thanks to Global Mirror, we are well-informed and keep up with the changing world.

As a young student, I wish that I can be a master of English language. Therefore, I suggest that Global Mirror provide articles about English learning for us.

Finally, I hope that Global Mirror will become more and more popular. Thank you for your time!

Sincerely yours,

Li Hua

I had a bust weekend.Last saturday.T stayed at home, did my home work and

cleand my room.Iwas a little tired. On sunday morning,Iwent fishing and took

picnres there.ON sunday afternoon,I was really happy last weekend.

When festival comes, I will be very excited, because it is a good time for

my families to get together and we share our happiness. My favorite holiday is

Mid-autumn festival, I can eat mooncake. It is so delicious for me. The moon

looks so bright and big. We can appreciate it while playing cards in the

balcony.

Dear Blake,

Mrs. White will soon leave for the United States and we will held a

farewell party for her which takes place from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Friday,

May 20, 2012 at the School Club. I am very pleased to invite you toparticipatein

the farewell party. Another two foreign teachers you know, Mr. Frazer and Miss

Gree are also invited. Please join us to say goodbye to Mrs. White. You are

hoped to arrive at 5:50 p.m. I look forward to see you on May 20.

Yours sincerely,

Yan Yang

I like reading books so much. My parents have bought me a lot of books when

I was three years old. They want me to be interested in reading. With my

parents’s education, I am very interested in novel books and I want to write

novels someday. I have come up with some idea, soon I can finish one.

There was once a little boy, who was my grandpa; lived in a little cottage

near the king’s palace. He was a jolly fellow in his life.

One day, he went down to the brook to pick some flowers. Close to the brook

was a little log, on it was a tinker. Beside him was a tool box, and in it were

some tools. “He must be the one that fixed the pluming machine in my backyard!”

my grandpa gasped as he said that. The tinker was having his lunch: One or two

pieces of bread, a bit of cold meat, and a cold potato. It looked such poor

lunch; that grandpa ran into the house, and grabbed two fresh apples, and gave

it to the tinker. The tinker thanked grandpa and ate the apples. And then he

went down to the brook to have a drink. When he came back, he said, “Now my boy,

we shall plant a tree!” “A tree?” asked grandpa, “But I thought only god makes

trees!’’ “True,” said the tinker, “Only god makes trees. But sometimes we could

help him. And the tinker pulled out a stick, and dug a hole in it. In which he

found a bark. He took the bark out of the stick, and gave the stick to grandpa,

saying, “Here my boy; wash it in the brook.” And so grandpa went to the brook,

and washed up the stick. And then he went back where the tinker was standing

with the bark in his hands.

There he found the tinker, dragging some grass from the ground. And then he

took the stick in grandpa’s hand, and used the grass to tie up around with the

bark. Then he slipped the bark back in the stick. And then he took it out,

squeezed the water out, and told grandpa to wash it up again. When he came back,

he put the bark back in it again. And then fitted it into a hole, which he had

dug; and used the end that didn’t have a hole, and fitted it in the ground; a

few months passed, and the tree grew as strong as the strongest man.

Recently, the news reported a small boy was studying while he helped his

mother to sell the products. Many people gave him great praise, because he could

focus his attention, but their children always wanted to play. This boy is such

strong that he must make a difference in the future. His mother is so lucky to

have a boy like him.

亲爱的雷老师：

您好!

到现在，我还清楚记得，您是在四年级上册来到了我们的班级，来教导我们，来培养我们，来和我们度过这小学阶段最重要的时光。

我们在您的教导下，在郎朗的读书声中，在课堂上小小的玩笑中，我们渐渐地懂事起来了，渐渐地成长起来，也渐渐地要离开您了……

虽然我和同学们要离开了，可是一定不会忘却我们校园中的雷老师，不会忘却您对我们倾心的教导，不会忘却您对我们关切的声音，更不会忘却您是我小学时光最美丽的老师，是我小学时光最亲近的老师，更是我小学时光最敬爱的老师。您在我心里更是有着亲人一般的地位。您以后肯定会教很多很多学生，到后来不知是否记得我。不管怎样，我永远永远不会忘记您!

在这最后的日子里，我一定会更加认真地读书，更加认真地听讲，更加认真地写作业。

如果我是水稻，那您就是那种植我的农民。如果我是房子，那您就是建筑我的工人。如果我是黑暗，那您就是照亮我的蜡烛，是照亮我人生的蜡烛。

祝您：

青春常驻，幸福美满!

How to have a healthy body? First of all, you have to play sports like

playing basketball and running. You should also eat more fruits and vegetables,

such as apples and bananas, which are rich in vitamins. If you do that, you

wont get sick often. And you can not stay up late, to early to bed and early to

rise, you should speak hygiene, clean themselves, often to drink lots of water

every day, not to eat junk food, and so on are conducive to a healthy body, the

most important thing is to pay attention to safety.

怎样拥有一个健康的身体?首先你必须经常运动比如打篮球，跑步。你还要多吃蔬菜水果，例如苹果，香蕉，它们含有丰富的维生素。如果这样做，你就不会经常得病。并且你不可以熬夜，要早睡早起，你要讲卫生，经常清洁自己，每天要喝很多水，不能吃垃圾食品等等都利于身体健康，最重要的是注意安全。

Dear Mr Pan:

It has been a long time since I wrote the last letter. Nowdays, people write letters less and less, instead, they make a call or send a SMS. However, it is still a good way for us to communicate with each other by sending a letter.

Its my honour to get the chance to write to you. "Approachable" is my first impression of you, because you always keeps smiling. Students may fear the teachers that are serious both in and out of class. Smile makes a teacher popular with his students, you are a teacher of this very kind.

You always arrive at the classroom ahead of any of the students, from which we could imply that you are a diligent man with regular habit. Before the class, you like to talk to us, at this very time, you are more a friend than a teacher. To be honest, I was surprised in the first class when I learned a teacher at your age could speak English in such a fluent way.(I didnt mean you are old, youre young at heart.) Moreover, you know well how to keep your class attractive. Youve got such an active mind that you can keep talking during the whole class without a pause. I always appreciated your ideas and enjoyed listening to you. In your class, I learned not only the writing skills but also the presentation skills as well as much knowledge of other areas. Thanks for your excellent teaching.

Ive got some suggestions for you. It seems that we students have got few chances to participate in discussion during the class time. Most of the time, we are listening. Seldom did we express our own ideas. I suggest that teachers should interact with students more frequently in the class. Besides, Id like to practice writing more, so would you please leave us more assignments?

Happy new year.

With every good wish.

Yours sincerely

Dali Wang

尊敬的老师：

您们好!我们是___小朋友的父母，今天是小朋友插班入学的第一天，为了方便您了解小朋友，现将他目前的基本情况向您介绍一下：

姓名：___(乳名：__) 性别：男 出生日期：____年_月_日

___小朋友2岁10个月了，但由于2年来的生活圈子基本局限在家庭范围内，初到幼儿园，他可能会对新环境有所不适应，近一个月来，我们都在通过绘本、故事、表演等形式向小朋友介绍幼儿园生活，对于上学，小朋友现在是充满了向往，有时也会对于把他一个人留在幼儿园表示不满，会自言自语的说我不想去幼儿园，总体来说，幼儿园对于他还是个充满乐趣的地方，恳请老师给予关爱和引导，我们会非常感谢老师。

小朋友平时白天由姥姥照看，晚上和周末大都由父母看管，家庭关系良好，老人性格活泼，老人对孩子有些溺爱，父母对他以教育为主，性格属于内外向兼有。有的时候很活泼，有时又表现得胆小，熟了就好;小朋友比较讲道理，当他提出一些无理或不正当要求时，被拒绝后可能会哭闹和发脾气，但如果我们温和的给他讲道理，他一般还是能接受的，有时候需要点时间，开始还是恳请老师多一点包容。

5月以来，对于自我的概念感觉强烈，当他心爱的物品被人有意无意的接近时，小朋友会迅速进入戒备状态，只要小朋友再靠近一点，他就会有很强烈的反应，有时会大哭，还会冒出暴力的词语，我想打___，我不要___，对此我们也很头疼，事后每次的心理建设过程中小朋友都会表示不想和小朋友分享，所以才会发脾气。恳请老师在小朋友发脾气时给予一些耐心，适当做些心理抚慰。

小朋友平时热爱运动，户外跑跳、骑车、速度较快，对各种球类都很有兴趣，喜欢听故事，家里绘本很多，语言发育较晚，现在才开始学话，爱提问，总是问个不停，而且总是反复地不厌其烦地问，平时音乐启蒙较少，喜欢节奏感强的旋律。

小朋友平时生活比较规律，早上7:30左右起床，早餐，外出活动，午餐后玩一会午睡，午睡通常1:30左右才睡，可以独立入睡，4点后起床，吃点水果，外出活动，晚餐，有时晚餐后还会出去玩，大多在家里由父母讲故事、做游戏之类的。我们最担心的是午睡时间和幼儿园的差异较大，烦请老师多费心。

小朋友身体健康，比较皮实，一般的磕磕碰碰基本不会哭，如果哭了，可能是吓到了或者真的很疼，请老师帮忙仔细检查分辨一下。

小朋友平时胃口不错，尤其是中餐和晚餐，对于食物的外观有自己的喜好，喜欢和不喜欢的食物经常变换不定，吃饭基本可以自己完成，筷子和勺子基本都能用，最擅长的还是手，吃相不雅，请老师多多包涵。平时基本都喝凉白开，会主动要水喝，有时玩得太开心也需要大人提醒。

小朋友大便一般在上午，大便之前会告诉大人有臭臭，在家是坐在儿童马桶圈上解决，自己不会擦屁屁，小便之前也会说有尿，基本不会尿裤子，目前需要大人帮忙抱上马桶边的小椅子上自己嘘嘘。

小朋友自理能力一般，会自己穿裤子，还分不清前后，自己穿鞋，经常穿反，不会穿袜子和上衣，会自己洗手，不会用毛巾洗脸，还需要老师给予关照。

小朋友喜欢和大孩子一起玩，模仿他们，大孩子对他的榜样力量可能比父母的引导说教等奏效，不喜欢同龄的小朋友和弟弟妹妹，有固定的小朋友圈子，但目前没有特别好的同龄小朋友，很喜欢一个比他大的哥哥，特别希望能在幼儿园找到新朋友。

对于孩子的接送问题，一般是由妈妈送，姥姥接，如果临时换人，我们会通知老师，以保证孩子的安全。

自己对自己的孩子作出非常客观的评价很难(虽然我们努力这样做)，所以有很多地方说得不一定对。我们非常愿意能多跟老师交流，孩子的发展有什么动向或需要引起注意的地方，希望我们能够及时沟通，力争让孩子健康成长。妈妈电话：___________，爸爸电话：___________。

我们虽然希望老师能给予更多的照顾，但是那么多孩子需要照顾，毕竟老师的精力有限，所以特别能理解老师和学校的烦恼，无论如何，我们对您们都非常地尊敬和感谢。希望小朋友可以很快适应新的环境，成为一个快乐的、心理健康的、讨人喜爱的小成员。

想到哪，写到哪，可能比较乱，希望打印的字体让您看起来更方便一些。我们全家对您的辛勤工作表示感谢，祝您及您的家人幸福、愉快!

Hi, this is Lisa. I am going to have a busy weekend. On Saturday, I’m going

to do my homework. Then, I’m going to buy a book about Harry Potter. It’s my

favourite book. I have a lot of posters of Harry Potter. After lunch, I’m going

to visit my grandparents and play with my cousins, Denis and and Alice.

They are active. Dennis likes singing very much. Alice likes drawing

pictures. We often play hide-and-seek together. In the evening, I’ll help my mom

clean the house. I like help my mom with the housework. My mom always says I am

a good girl. After that, I am going to read the book about Harry Potter. That

will be fun.

On Sunday, I am going to the stamp show in Qinghui Gardens. I like collecting

stamps. I have got 150 stamps. In the evening, I am going to back school. What

about you? What are you going to do on the weekend? Can you tell me,

please?

My name is Yao Yuru, this year twelve years old, is a Gemini girl, is also

the Nanchangthird day seven class of students.

I am a healthy girl, because I have a good eating habit. I was a

vegetarian, I often eatsalad lettuce silk, carrot stew and fried cabbage. The

fruit is very healthy food. I likeeat star fruit, cherry, peach, grape and

kiwifruit. But my favorite fruit is blueberry.

I like sports. I like to play badminton play tennis, because they are very

easy and interesting. My favorite sport is playing basketball. Oh, "the little

dwarf reincarnation" I just love basketball this movement, this is baffled.

Dont look at me is a small but girl,last visit to his alma mater, I play

basketball with a group of old classmates with a university, but I grabbed a few

times high school seniors ball! For me is that even the "three ball"

"gatekeeper" is what all dont know beginners, but I am very proud! For my

height, playing basketball is very difficult, but fortunately the pain in music,

it is veryuseful and interesting. Why useful? I wonder if you have not heard of,

plenty of exercise can promote bone growth, especially for jumping movement!

You are a healthy girl? If not, please try to let oneself become a

healthier!

Dear Miss Luo,

hello

A year has slipped away from our laughter between our eyes, and we should say goodbye to you. Although we only wanted to work for a short year, you left me a deeper impression than the foreign teacher who taught me for five years.

I used to think that Chinese class is a boring thing, but since I know you, I like Chinese class.

First of all, I think you love to encourage classmates. When I answer questions in class, if the answer is right, you will look at me with happy eyes and ask me to make persistent efforts. If I got it wrong, you encouraged me with a gentle voice and spoke to the whole class about my problem. Whether I am right or wrong, I feel happy.

Secondly, I think you are very earnest and meticulous in doing things. For example, when we borrowed arrows from the grass boat, you not only let us learn the surface meaning, but also took us to study the text deeply. To my surprise, you also let us listen to the pingshu, to stimulate the interest of the students, so that the students learn more practical.

You still love to delay, I used to think that it is to deprive me of time to play, but a long time I understand the love for us then, let us learn more knowledge.

Finally, I think you are very concerned about the students, once, there was no meal in the canteen, the students had to be hungry, but you did not ignore, but to invite them to eat noodles.

All in all, you are wonderful, admirable and unforgettable. It seems that this is the main reason that you are better than my original teacher!

I wish you success in your work!

Your students

My Darling McGeorge

You said that things seemed clearer when they were written down. Well, here

with a very boring letter in which I will try to put everything down so that you

may read and re-read it at a horror at your folly in getting involved with

me.

Deep breath. To begin with ,I love you. With a depth and passion and I have

felt for no one else in this life. And if it is astonishes you, it astonished me

as well. Not, I hasten to say, because you are not worth loving. Far from it.

Its just that, first of all,I swore I would not get involved with another

woman. Secondly, I have never had such a feeling before and it is almost

frightening. Thirdly, I would never have thought it possible that another human

being could occupy my waking and sleeping thoughts to the exclusion of almost

everything else. Fourthly, I never thought that even if one was in love one

could get so completely besotted with another person so that a minute away from

them felt like a thousand years. Fifthly, I never hoped,aspired, dreamed that

one can find everything one wanted in one person.

I was not such an idiot as to believe this was possible. Yet in you I have

found everything I want: youre beautiful, gay, giving, gentle, idiotically and

deliciously feminine, sexy, wonderfully intelligent and wonderfully silly as

well. I want nothing else in this life than to be with you, to listen and watch

you, your beautiful voice, your beauty, to argue with you, to laugh with you, to

show you things, to share things with you, to explore your magnificent mind, to

explore your wonderful body, to help you, protect you, serve you ,and...bash you

on the head when I think you are wrong...

Not to put too fine a point on it, I consider that I am the only man

outside mythology to have found crock of gold at the rainbows end. But, having

said all that, let us consider things in details. Dont let this become public,

but, well...I have one or two faults. Minor ones,I hasten to say. For example I

am inclined to be overbearing. I do it for the best possible motives, all

tyrants say that, but I do tend, without thinking, to treat people underfoot.

You must tell me when Im doing it to you, my sweet, because it can be a very

bad thing in a marriage.

Right, the second blemish. This actually is not so much a blemish of

character as a blemish of circumstance. Darling, I want you to be you on your

own right, and I will do everything I can to help you in this. But you must take

into consideration that I am also me in my own right. And that I have a head

start on you. What Im trying to say is that you must not feel offended if you

are sometimes treated simply as my wife. Always remember that what you lose on

the swings you gain on the roundabouts. But i am an established ‘creature’ in

the world, and so on occasions you will have to live in my shadow. Nothing gives

me less pressure than this. But it is a fact of life that has to be faced.

Third, a very important and nasty, blemish. Jealousy. I dont think you

know what jealousy is, thank god, in the real sense of the word. I know that you

have felt jealousy over Lincolns wife and child, but this is what I call normal

jealousy, and this to my regret, is not what Ive got. What I have got is a

black monster and any goodness that I have in my make-up. It is really a Jekyll

and Hyde situation... my Hyde is stronger than my good sense and defeats me,

hard though I try. As I told you, I have always known that this lurks within me,

but I could control it, and my monster slumbered and nothing happened to awake

it. Then I met you and I felt my monster stir and become half-awake when you

told me of Lincoln and others you have known, would you like to end with your

letter my monster came out of its lair, black, irrational, bigoted, stupid,

evil, malevolent. You never know how terribly corrosive jealousy is; It is a

physical pain as though you have swallowed acid or red hot coals. It is the most

terrible of feelings. But you cant help it at least I cant and god knows Ive

tried. I dont want any ex-boyfriends sitting in church when I marry you. On our

wedding day I want nothing but happiness both for you and me, but I know I wont

be happy if there is a church full of your ex-conquests. When I marry you I will

have no past, only a future. I dont want to drag my past into our future and I

dont want you to do it, either. Remember I am jealous of you because I love

you. You are never jealous of something you dont care about.

Okay enough about jealousy. Now let me tell you something. I have seen a

thousand sunsets and sunrises, in a thousand sunsets and sunrises on land where

it floods forest mountains with honey-coloured light, at sea where it rises and

sets like a blood orange in a multi-coloured nest of cloud, slipping in and out

of the vast ocean. I have seen thousand moons. Harvest moon is like gold coins,

winter moons as white as ice chips, new moons like baby swans feathers. I have

seen seas as smooth as if painted, coloured like shot silk or blues as a

kingfisher or transparent as glass or black and crumpled with foam, moving

ponderously and murderously. I have felt winds straight from the south pole,

bleak and wailing like a lost child; Winds as tender and warm as a lovers

breath; Winds that carried the astringent smell of salt and the death of

seaweeds; Winds during the moist rich smell of a forest floor, the smell of a

million flowers. Fierce winds that churned and moved the sea like yeast, or

winds that made the waters lap at the shore like a kitten. Ive known silence:

the cold, earthy silence at the bottom of a newly dug well; The implacable stony

silence of a deep cave; The hot, drugged midday silence when everything is

everything is hypnotized and still moved into silence by the eye of the sun. The

silence when great music ends. Ive heard that summer cicadas cry so that the

sound seems stitched into your bones. Ive heard a tree frogs in an

orchestration as complicated as Bach singing in a forest lit by a million

emerald fireflies. Ive heard the Keas calling over the grey glaciers that

groaned to themselves like old people as they inched. Their way to the sea. Ive

heard the hoarse street vendor cries of the mating Fur seals as they sang to

their sleek golden wives, the crisp staccato admonishment of the rattlesnake,

make the cobweb squeak of the Bat and the belling roar of the red deer knee-deep

in purple heather. Ive heard wolves baying at a winters moon, read howlers

making the forest vibrate with their roaring cries. Ive heard the squeak, purr

and grunt of a hundred multi-coloured reef fishes. I’ve seen hamming birds

flashing like opals round a tree of scarlets blooms, humming like a top. I have

seen flying fish skittering like quicksilver across the blue waves, drawing

silver lines on the surface with their tails. Ive seen Spoonbills flying home

to roost like a scarlet banner crossed the sky. Ive seen Whales, black as tar,

cushioned on a cornflower blue sea,creating a Versailles of fountain with their

breath. I have watched butterflies emerge and sit, trembling, while the sun

irons their wings smooth. I watch tigers, like flames, mating in the long grass.

I have been dive -bombed by an angry Raven, black and glossy as the Devils

hoof. Ive lain in water warm as milk, soft as silk, while around me played a

host of Dolphins. I have met a thousand animals and see a thousand wonderful

things.

All this I did without you. This was my loss. All this I want to do with

you. This will be my gain. All this I would gladly have forgone for the sake of

one minute of your company, for your love, your voice, your eyes, hair, lips,

body, and above all for your sweet, ever surprising mind which is an enchanting

quarry, in which it is my privilege to delve.

Gerald Durrell