Briefe an Susanne, Kommentar                                             Brieftext

 

115. Gail W.                                                       Toronto, 30.12.1964

[im Original] Dear Susanne,

I hope you and your family had a very merry Christmas and will have a prosperous New Year. My family had a nice Christmas. The only thing we missed was snow. It rained for a couple of days before Christmas and the rain washed the snow away. For Christmas I received a sweater, pyjamas, two slips, stockings, wallet, gloves, a blouse & slippers. We had my uncle for Christmas dinner.

School is out. I am very glad to get out of school for a week and a half. The Christmas exams made me very tired. We finished school an the 22nd of December and go back on January 4. We do not get our reports until we go back. I think I did well on these exams. In school the only language I learn is French. I think I can learn other languages in grades 11 or 12. I enjoy learning languages too.

During the holidays I have been going skating most of the time. I enjoy skating very much, its one of my favourite sports. I have an artificial rink at the bottom of our street. Many people go to the rink. I would like to learn to ski very much. I think it would be a thrilling experience. In some of our parks, machines make artificial snow or the hills for skiing on tobogganing but you have to really go to a ski lodge to ski. The hills in the parks are not very steep or long. I like going to the show also. One movie I want to see is Goldfinger. It is a James Bond mystery. Do you have a favour actor or actress? My favourite actresses are Shirley MacLaine, Hayley Mills and Lucille Ball, and Doris Day. My favourite actors are numerous. Have you heard from Brigitte? I haven’t. I sent her a Christmas card and asked her to phone me but I haven’t heard from her.

I’ll say good-bye for now.

Your penpal,

Gail

P.S. I hope you passed this term at school and hope you have a good year.

Goldfinger] Film nach dem Roman von Ian Fleming, der dritte Teil der James-Bond-Filmreihe (Großbritannien/USA 1964)

Shirley MacLaine] geb. 1934, US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.

Hayley Mills] geb., 1946, englische Schauspielerin, Kinderstar der frühen 1960er Jahre.

Lucille Ball] (1911-1989), US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.

Doris Day] geb. 1924, US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.