She started with minimum vocab of English, we hardly understood each other, sometimes I had to act out the instruction. But now she speaks fluent English with her favorite phrase: "I don't know..." used no less than 500 times in the last 2 years.
Actually, she is one of the most trustworthy maid we have ever hired. Humble and good help, good-natured with a good servant-hood mindset.
We have been persuading her for months to convince her family to let her stay and work for another 2 years. She wanted so much to stay, but apparently they have other plans for her.
And so... on 19th March 2009, 6am in the morning, she started her voyage home. Ally woke up early to send her off.
My wife gave her instructions of how to get to the departure gate.
Group Hug.
Ally has always been her favorite, she gets all teary eyes saying good-bye to her. But Ally wasn't crying at all, she just smiled and waved and said good-bye.
"Ma'am, Sir... I want to thank you for letting me work here for the 2 years... (sob...sob) I very happy here...(sob...)"God bless her, I pray that she'll have a good life ahead, maybe one day she'll be back to work for us again.
I certainly wouldn't mind... not at all.
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4 comments:
good maid is really hard to come by these days...she looks very young..should exchange contact and ask her to contact you if she wants to come to SG again.
Congrats!! I just saw on your header that you are expecting!! such happy news! seems like govt got what they want this year..a lot of babies..hahaha.
Thanks Rachel,
I certainly would like to have more kids but just that not enough time and money.
Anyway, got to be contented lah.
beaglesg
It's not easy to get good maid, you are lucky!
Hope your next maid will be good one too!
Jess
http://kidsislands.blogspot.com/
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