B0079G5GMK EBOK (30 page)

Mar sin leat
-
bye for now

Mo caraid
-
my friend

Leig rach
-
let go

Chan eil
-
no

Tha
-
yes

A nis
-
now

Beatha
-
life

Tha mi duilich
- I´m Sorry

Tha grádh agam ort
- I love you

Ma´s e do thoil e -
please

Beag eun -
little bird

Mo cáraid
- my friend

Adam

Tiamhaidh (Timothy)

Mathanan (Matt)

Simon

Ciall

Raibeart (Robert)

Pádraig (Patrick)

Iain (John)

Artair (Arthur)

Joshua Green
             
the Rocky Mountain, North America

Blake Jones
             
England

Darel White
             
Australia, aboriginal; darel- blue sky

Derry Bochanan
             
Scotland, gaelic; derry- red head

Drew Simmonds
             
C
anada

Alexei Safin
             
Russia

Igor Korolev
             
Russia, originally from Romania

Marcel Ferrero
             
Spain

Fabio Bolelli
             
Italy, Toscana

Jonas Bastianssen
             
Norway

Marc Gasquet
             
France

Adrian Benneteau 
             
France

First of all
,
a huge
thanks to my family; Kimmo, Iida and Anna.
I’m always surprised at
your unconditional support and enormous
patience.
There were days when I almost drowned in my text and the only thing that kept me sane was the knowledge of you and the solid trust that you would throw me a life-saver
,
no matter what.

Special thank you to Jaana Lähdetie and Liisa Metsähonkala,
the
neurologists who literally saved my daughter’s life.

T
hanks t
o
Mar
ie Godley
for
polishing the text.
You
have eyes like
an eagle.

A very big thank
you t
o Loni Ki
m
, the proofreading wizard who always does the first proofreading of my manuscript
s
and in this case also the final one.
I wish
I could promise to learn from my mistakes
,
but I can’t as the naked truth is that I suck with grammar issues.
So hopefully you’ll stick around
to help me with my word challenges
in the future too because I would be completely lost without you.

To Mark Blanchard
who’s always ready to fix
my messy texts.
I can’t even think what I’d do without you!

T
o Eveliina Tommola from Viima Graphic
s for designing the fab
ulous cover and to Milla Säteri from
the
advertising company Magia for making my
homepage and updating it. T
o Mirva Vainio-Ketola, for listening
to
my
endless
whining and
helping me with my Microsoft Word problems. You saved
my computer
’s life
when I wanted to throw it at
the wall.

T
o Marjaana and Erkki L
oiske.
T
hank you for having faith in me and for encouraging me to accomplish my dream
,
instead of only chasing it.

To
all
my friends for bearing
with
me when I hid myself behind the comput
er and didn’t answer your calls or if I did, all you got was some scrappy growling.

And of course to my mom, Carita Nurminen, sisters Tytti Rosenberg and Tiia Blomberg and to my brother Lauri Nurminen for never pressing, questio
ning or giving me a hard time for
my choices and for
always
being there.

And
finally
,
thanks to everyone I forgot to mention but should have...

                                            
www.jenniferloiske.com