神是我的依靠

最近比较忙，为申请绿卡忙于身体检查，由于一些繁文缛节而必须去诊疗所（一个小时的车程）四趟才办妥；为买房子忙于房贷，房子检查，估价。申请被第一家的房贷公司拒绝后现在等候第二家的消息，若再被拒绝就要准备搬家了因为屋主要把房子卖掉了。在正月十四日，公司在漫长的八个月的重整，改革，与债主的协商后终于在这日正式脱离破产。本来这个星期应该在伦敦开会但却因签证的问题不能成行但却避免不了许许多多的video and telephone conferences。。。。。。。。。。

真的有点累了，但神是我的依靠，我的避难所，我的力量。我把一切仰望交托。愿祂的心意完成。

買屋子

我們一家人來美國已經整整三年了。原本以爲只是短期性的逗留，卻不知不覺的過了一千多個日子。也有幾次因爲公司發生一些事故而以爲會提早囘囯，然而上帝自有安排。

美國自從經過經濟風暴的洗禮后，失業率超過10%，很多人不但失去了工作還失去了家園，有好多的屋子因爲屋主供不起房貸而被銀行“foreclosed"而被拍賣或售賣了。同事和朋友都鼓勵我們乘機買比較便宜的屋子，可是我就有好多的顧慮，錢不夠，房貸難，不想負債，隨時會被調回囯。。。。。。。

雖然還沒決定要買但每次翻報紙時都會去看賣屋子的廣告，詩艷也多次”笑“我說不要買就不要浪費時間看這些廣告。2009年末季總算鼓起勇氣去找了個產業代理（其實是因爲不用給錢或佣金）試一試，自從那時起幾乎每天都囘受到代理的好多個email，就在2009年快要結束的當兒看到一间还满意（价钱，地点，屋龄，面积）的屋子，约了代理在十二月三十一日和祖恩还有同事Scott一起去看看（当天还下雪呢）。祖恩一见那屋子就吵着要买（不需要他出钱嘛）原因是房间比现在的大，后院也多地可以给他玩棒球。在2010年一月三日带诗艳和祖乐去看（又是下大雪），祖乐因为冷而吵着要回家，诗艳因为屋子大和有多处要修理而显得没有多大的兴趣，可是我没有放弃，多次对她傻笑和问她的意见，她总是不置可否，随我意行，还问我问过上帝没有，我说问过求过，祂没有说不可以。在2010年一月五日，我签了购屋献议书，献价US$235k,条件是我能借到钱，屋子没有严重缺陷。如果我的献议被接受，我必须在2010年二月十二日前拿到房贷，不然就要收回献议书，等待下次。

弟兄姐妹们，请为我们祷告。

谢谢！

才德的婦人

我感謝神賜給我一個才德的婦人為妻，每日出外打拼從來不必顧慮家裏，因爲知道有她在打理一切，晚上回家時有熱騰騰的晚餐等著我。

謝謝你，老婆。

Parent Conference

I have to attend 2 parent conferences today in the school. One for Zu En and one for Zu Le.

The purpose of the conference is to review the progress made by Zu En and Zu Le and to discuss ways to help them in areas require improvements

I met with Mr. Ywasky, Zu En's social study teacher first because Zu En did not score well in this subject and went for detention class once. After talking to him and we both realized that Zu En is not good in asking for help when he faces problems in learning. Mr. Ywasky will pay more attention on Zu En to ensure he understands the instructions and help him to build his self-confidence. After the meeting, I went to see Ms. Maynard, Zu En's science teacher. As usual, she praised Zu En for his efforts and understanding for science. I believe Zu En can do much better in subjects that he is interested in and I am hopeful that he is benefiting from the good learning environment here.

I went to Elementary school after the meeting with Zu En's teachers. I was supposed to meet Mrs. Pratte and Mrs. Lynch at 2:20p.m. but I was a bit earlier so I went to see school's counselor Mrs. Foronda and was informed that she is going to adopt a Vietnamese girl named Minh Hanh. She said Zu Le did well in the announcement he made during the International Week.

The meeting with Mrs. Pratte, Mrs. Lynch and Mrs. Rollinson went well with very positive feedback from them that Zu Le is going very well in terms of studying, communicating, interacting etc. We are very pleased to know that our decision to let Zu Le staying back for another year in Elementary school is correct and beneficial to Zu Le.

I felt good after the meetings and I am very grateful and thankful to God for giving us this opportunity to experience the goodness in life and education in the this country. The best thing is, the education here is free, even for the bus ride.

Thank God for His wonderful blessing! 

我的家人

我擁有一個幸福的家。妻子詩艷，大公子祖恩和小baby祖樂。我除了感恩之外還是感恩。

這是我們最近去美國北部Vermont州旅行時所拍的照片。秋天的景色讓人讚嘆造物者的偉大。