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Ewelina

No ... ja też lubię czytać, choć przyznaję, że wolałabym po polsku ... łatwiej Smile

AMG

Przykro mi... Na pociechę powiem, że po polsku mam znacznie mniej tekstów, więc dzięki angielskim wersjom masz więcej do czytania Wink

Lidka

Po angielsku lepiej, obcy język dodaje tajemniczości Wink

za pięć wpisów też się nie pogniewamy.

AMG

Już prawie końcówka...

26.11. (Sarah)

Strange how the obvious isn’t so obvious anymore. Whatever story I tell, Khaled – still can’t think of him as John – asks questions which would have never crossed my mind. He was surprised that we have to follow the law just as everyone else, and that the law is actually represented by the sheriff. ‘Mais vous etes riche,’ he said. He didn’t want to believe me when I said everyone on the ranch had to work. ‘Mais vous etes riche’. He can also hardly pass over the fact that we have no servants. ‘Mais vous etes riche’. Hard-headed like a true Cartwright, my word. And when I spoke about the work with the cattle, his expression slowly changed, until he offered, ‘Mais vous etes riche,’ in a strange voice, clearly disgusted. Only after Eve and Uncle Adam confirm it, his doubts seem to be somewhat fading. Although, once Eve did try to pull his leg and convince him of something untrue – but he asked Uncle Adam as his final oracle. He calls him Abba – it means Daddy; Father is Ab. I think the word is Hebrew. It has a special sound from his lips.

Gwoli wyjaśnień: "Mais vous etes riche" oznacza - "Ale (przecież) jesteście bogaci" Smile

Nad pierwszym "e" w "etes" powinien być daszek, ale coś mi przekłamuje czcionkę.

Ewelina

Chyba Khaledowi-Johnowi ciężko będzie u rodzinki w Ponderosie. To dla niego inny świat. Inne pojęcie wartości. No i co z nim i z Eve? Bo Khaled chyba nie przepada za Sarah? A może się mylę? W każdym razie przesadnej sympatii nie wyczuwam u żadnej ze stron.
Co dalej?

Lidka

"Hard-headed" - trzeźwo myślący, jak tłumaczą mi moje podpowiedzi, czy raczej twardogłowy, czyli nie dający się przekonać? To drugie pasowałoby do syna Adasia, jak mam rozumieć?

"He calls him Abba – it means Daddy; Father is Ab. I think the word is Hebrew." - hmm określenie raczej znane w kręgach chrześcijańskich, więc czemu Sarah ma wątpliwości?

No i właśnie - kiedy John zabierze się za wytropienie opiekuna Eve?

Rika

Fajnie brzmi "Uncle Adam" - jeszcze lepiej "Abba Adam" Laughing

chociaż tak się pewnie nie mówi.
Khaled to na pewno zdolny chłopak - po tatusiu - i szybko się nauczy nowego stylu życia.

AMG

AMG

Płyniemy dalej?...

27.11. (Khaled)

I went to Abba with his notes. Now I have seen Eve and Uncle Joe read them and I want to see him read them, too. He was surprised, but he never dismisses me. Even when he says no, it is for a reason. He went through the notes with me, and I saw what I thought I would see in him, and much more. It is the only way to understand. He is not like the people I know.

I showed him the other papers, too. I don’t read English. He began reading them to me, those they call poetry, and he translated me some of the ones he calls “epic”. My French is better than his. We laughed about it.

We need to find a tongue we both use equally well. Abba speaks English and some French and Arabic. Maman speaks Arabic and her home tongues, and French, and some English. I speak French and Arabic, but it unnerves me to know so little of English words that Eve does not understand me. Uncle Joe claims I speak a chaotic language of many languages. But I’ll learn, they’ll see, I’ll show them I can. Abba laughs; I believe him when he says he is the same. I feel he understands.

Home is my parents. I lived in many places, and places don’t count. Home is when I feel good. I feel good when Abba holds me like that at his heart. Like maman. It is not a thing a man yearns for, but something a child would want, but it is also something a man likes to remember in his heart. Abba couldn’t give it to me when I was a child, so he gives it to me now. It is our secret.

Abba wanted to know how I got out of the difficulties at the French place. Ahmed brought me away after I hid somewhere in a dead end street. He knew me, he came a couple of times to our place. I think he lived nearby. I feel Abba is grateful to him. They are very different; it is difficult to feel genuinely positively about someone so different. Abba can. I will learn, too.

Ewelina

Khaled się stara, ale nadal nie wiemy, kto jest opiekunem Eve i co łączy Eve z Cartwrightami? Co będzie z Khaledem i dziewczyną?
AMG, popchnij nieco tę łódkę ...

Rika

Lidka

Kolejna charakterystyczna cecha Adama - umie obdarzyć sympatią kogoś zupełnie odmiennego od siebie.

I co dalej?

AMG

No to dalej...

26.12. (Ben Cartwright)

Christmas without Joe and Sarah. Hopefully the only one. Their letter made it home, and they are hoping to get back in the second half of January or the beginning of February, with some late Christmas surprise Joe is boasting of impossibly; with luck, they’ll be here even around the middle of the month. Lord bring them home safely.

Ewelina

Maleńki ten żagielek, ale dobre i to. Czyli wracają niedługo do domu. Z niespodzianką ... o ile dobrze zrozumiałam ... a co dalej?

Lidka

Ale króciutko. Obiecywałaś cztery wpisy, były trzy, ale chyba następny nie będzie ostatni?