Wednesday, April 30, 2008

My epal, Jack Stone

To begin with, I would like to make a brief introduction of my wonderful e-pal, Jack Stone, a 49 years old English gentleman, and will be fifty on June nineteenth. He has charming personality --wise, sensitive, quiet and shy. He is still single, never married and have no children. Unfortunately, he is suffered from heart condition and has to keep going to the doctors and the hospital for checkups and blood tests.
He works for himself at home by selling collectables on Ebay, such as stamps, coins, medals, sport programs. On the other hand, he also works for a couple of companies by selling their self-help books for them.
Recently Jack lives in the River Thames estuary. It is the largest town in the county of Essex and is known as a seaside resort. It is also famous for having the largest pier in the world. Jack has lived here for the last four years, before then he lived in another seaside resort Clacton on Sea which is on the east coast, then in Barking in east London which is where he was born and brought up.
Jack’s interests and past-times are walking, reading and tracing his family`s roots. Like me, he is also a dog lover, too. He once told me that walking the dogs over his past years has made him gaining a great love of walking; moreover, there is nothing more relaxing than walking on the beach or in the countryside.
We share many things, from the personal viewpoint of live and death to the history of our families. Even though Jack and I have discussed various topics and exchanged abundant e-mails, unfortunately, I did not find out any obvious difference between us in linguistic field. However, when examining my e-mail interaction with Jack, I think I have many culture gains.

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