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Dear Rebekkah: A Letter From Your Friend, Ronee' Le-Anne In Tennessee by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Rated "G" by the Author.
Ronee' Le-Anne Reaux emails her friend in California after her friend wrote to her yesterday.
Wednesday, November 17, 2004, 11:26 a.m., C.S.T.~
Dear Rebekkah~
Hi! I was happy to hear from you again; thank you for writing! We must have been playing email tag coz you would write; I'd write back, and then you'd write BACK to me, and so on and so forth! Now I guess it's MY turn to write coz you wrote last, so I have to answer YOU BACK! LOL
I know it is best to know about your heritage and all that happened (including the bad stuff, like the Holocaust!), but I can't read that book without crying. It is too horrible to imagine what the Jewish people (and all those who weren't Jewish, but were still killed by the Nazis, like the handicapped, or the Gypsies, and stuff like that!) must have had to endure. I would like to read the book, but maman worries that I will have nightmares because sometimes I will see something on tv or read something scary, and I will have wooly nightmares that causes me to wake up screaming in my sleep; and then I am gasping for air as I am trying to get my breath back coz I am so scared; and then I end up scaring half of the family to death coz I woke them up! NOT good! So this is why I don't read scary books or go to scary movies or watch the news because I get scared too easily! This is why I can't read books like Harry Potter or the Goosebumps series, or read books like "The Diary of Anne Frank". I have at least a couple of years left before I can read these books; maybe then my nightmares will go away, and hopefully, by then, I won't have so many bad dreams! I hope so; I hate being so scared all the time!!
Did you know that the Cajuns were treated badly too? Not by the Nazis, but by English men who were Protestant or whatever (they were not Catholic; a lot of Cajuns were Catholic), and during the 1600's a lot of people in Nova Scotia Canada (they were French; they were called "Acadiens") were forced to go on to ships and were sent out to sea because these English people didn't want them there. They didn't like the Acadiens because of their being Catholic and French, and they took over their land. They were not very nice to them, and those who were not put on ships were either killed or became slaves, and they were seperated from their families. It was a very bad time for the Acadiens, and this was called "Le Grande Derangement". The Acadiens eventually settled in what is now Louisiana, below Baton Rouge and New Orleans, in the southern part of the state, and they eventually became to be called "CAJUNS" because a lot of the people living there couldn't say "Les Acadiens" or understand their French way of talking. I am half Cajun French, and when I found out about this part, I cried! I felt so bad because that could have been some of my relatives somewhere along the line, and they were treated BADLY!!
I can teach you about the Cajuns or my heritage if you tell me more about yours. I think learning about new heritages or backgrounds is absolutely fascinating! I love learning new things, and maman tells me that I soak up new information like a sponge coz when I learn something new I never forget! She says I have the memory of an ELEPHANT! (I don't know if that is a good thing or not....LOL Is she saying that I have a fat head or something?? LOL)
I could even teach you some Cajun French if you'd like. I speak Cajun French very well, and I am fluent in it. I speak French or English at home, and whenever I go to Louisiana and go to the Cajun country part, I can hold a decent conversation with the Cajuns down there; and they can understand me. I understand them too. I also speak Spanish and as you know I am taking it in school. I also can speak a little in the way of German, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Russian, and Cherokee Indian. I am very good with languages; it's something that has always been easy for me. Maybe next time you write, maybe I can teach you some basic words in French, and you can teach me some words in Hebrew, that is if you know any. If you don't that is okay, but I bet it'd be neat to learn the language of your people! This is one reason why I speak French because I am proud of being Cajun, and I also love learning Spanish, for that part of me.
I will write more later; I have to go to lunch; and then it's recess. I will write more when I get home from school (that is, before we have to get ready and go to church). Until then, this is your friend, Ronee', signing off. Write 2 you later! Luv ya!
(((HUGZ))) As always, your Tennessee Cajun friend, Ronee' Le-Anne Reaux. :D
Laissez les bon temps rouler! AAIIEEE! (That means "Let the Good Times Roll!" in Cajun French, and it's something we Cajuns say all the time. As for the "AAIIEEE!", it's the Cajun yell, and we do that whenever we are happy or are having a good time!)
P.S.: I have a Cajun accordion that looks exactly like the one in the picture! I got it for a Christmas/birthday gift last year, and I always have so much fun playing it!
When two men hit the reset button and decide to go out looking for the good in the world, they not only find it but also a lot more.
P.S. The title is listed on Amazon under Look for Something Good by Robert Drews (not by Robert H. Drews)
Wednesday, November 17, 2004, 11:26 a.m., C.S.T.~
