To a good friend

Dear friend,

After 22 days travel, we finally arrived our new home: Warm springs Virginia.

I am so happy seeing you at the beginning of this trip. I am so proud of you keeping your home neat and pretty. You are my role modal in every prospect!

The albums we watched together on your porch got me back to the wonderful time we spent together in Haikou, China. Turning each page is the opening of my memories. The places we used to live and work the people we worked with and the culture and environment we have been …

If there were not the precious pictures you took and kept, I almost forgot lots of we have experienced. I thank you for being such a good bookkeeper!

Sitting at your porch, I felt the comfort. Lying on your living room floor, I sensed the warmth. Eating with Karla, I received the love from two generations of the Johansson. Thank you for being my friend and thank you for letting me be part of your life.

I still remember when we were in Haikou and walking on the street together, I was afraid of a little dog, you pulled me behind you and told me: “I will protect you.” I remember the evenings you came to my office and helping my English by having conversations and correct me for pronunciation and grammars. I remember having dinner in your apartment and watching movies with your home made popcorns!

Of course I remember that were you and Noval paid my college application fee and lead me to the library to get the math book I needed for a placement test.

And the wedding …

You and Norval drove all the way to Portland for my wedding and Norval paid the dinner! He was like a father for me and you were the one I depend on when I first came to the US.

My first furniture: two chairs, one table are from you. I have mattress, bed sheet and pillow cases from you.

My first computer and answer machine came from your daughter Denise. I had my first Hamburg at Denise’s as well, and the first camping trip with a RV …

There are much more, and more …

I appreciate you as a friend, mentor and thank you very much for being my friend!

Next, my sister and I will make our new home better with my husband. We will build a new house on the 10 acre. We just bought new lame more! 

 

I will write to you again soon.

I wish you have a nice weekend!

Love you!

                                                                       Love Snow

                                                                 Thursday, June 25, 2026