From Helsinki to Shandong

I appeared in another Chinese newspaper and received a flurry of emails from China:

Hello Mr Persky,
I am a senior student from China. You may become fairly surprised by this email cause you have not grasped a single piece of my information. This morning, I reading from a local newspaper, happened to see a picture on which you were holding your "post for hire". An unknown force drove me to copy down your email address as to render you some encouragements and supports.
I have been quite concerned with the ongoing financial crisis and the people involved in it. I can feel your disappointment actually. My best friend' father got laid-off some months ago which was a catastrophe to a family relying on one breadwinner. My friend applied for the finance aid, however rejected. His father was in deep sorrow for some time. Anyhow life will never wait for him and what is more important is that HE IS A MAN. So he struggled to get hired as what you are now doing and he made it! Some similarities exist between your and his situations and you are now possessing a lot more advantages-- knowledge and young.... Many people in your shoes have blocked themselves in homes, complaining and sobbing.  You outwit them at least in the life attitude. I am just a student experiencing much less than have you, but I have believed and will still holding the belief that THE GOD HELPS THE ONE WHO HELPS HIMSELF. You belong to the group, UNDOUBTEDLY!  
I am wishing for you from thousands miles away. From your smile on the picture, I read out that you can make it. In addition, please remember me to your friends who also have gotten tangled up in the crisis as to give them some cheer and support. You are not alone! GOOD LUCK! When got a job, please let me know.
p.s. if you need any help from me, I will.

 

Your good In the Chinese newspaper knew very happily you such dashing guy, has the telephone email number which your picture hangs, you are the gold lead great 0.1 in Wall Street's high level talent to be equal to that the Chinese Factory 100 worker wages are very fierce, but Chinese boss also please. Saw in Chinese many people your picture you have become famous, 50 years later the people will also demonstrate your picture will narrate 2008 world financial crisis.

1. How the world financial crisis do you are look may facilitate tell me?

2. you before what is mainly does in Wall Street's work? I envy very much to Wall Street's talented person want to become friends with you, and hoped you will soon find work From China's friend.

Hello, sir. Please don't feel suprised when you see this letter,and I don't mean to be rude. I saw you on the newspaper with a job-hiring ad on your neck. My name is Nancy. I am a chinese college student in Shandong Finance University, and my mayjor is finance. I read newspaper everyday to get some information about the finance crisis which started from the Wall Street NYC, but now it has been spreading all over the world that does harm to the real economy. Would you tell me something about the real aspect of it? I mean, even I read newspaper, I wanna know things that a real American citizen's idea on the crisis. Could you tell me something about it, for example, how it affects your life or what most people's attitudes towards it there. Please! I am really looking forward receiving your mail. Thank you for reading my mail. See you and have a nice day!!!

 

Gentleman. You will find very well work

Regret. I cannot English. After Yahoo computer translation… many writing. It is not unobstructed. It is not the meaning which I express. The computer it translates not well.

 

Thank you for sparing your time to answer my mail. I am so excited to receive the mail! Please forgive me if there are some mistakes in the letter. I know that you were a financial engineer, so you must be very professional in finance. As I told you before, I am a sophmore student in finance department at college. Maybe I would work in a bank or a stock company after I graduate. But the storm of the finance crisis is getting stronger and stronger, which depresses me a lot. I even don't have the confidence in finding a good job. I didn't expect that the world finance system is so...fragile. You know, I wanna go abroad for further study, and my first choice is definitlly America! Because I like America very much, and i also have some friends there. (By the way, can we be penpal???!!!  It's so nice to have an American friend who is a prfessor in finance, expecially in the special situation----Crisis.)

I wanna have some academic achievements, so I always keep reading books on finance that written by finance professors. I find it really hard to study well. Can you give me some suggestion? Maybe the crisis is not that strong in China, so the effect is little. But we still very worried. As we all know that every country is a member of the world, so everyone has the resiponsibility to make it better! The present time is the hard time for people all over the world. I hope the situation can turn out to be the bright side under every countries' cooperation! I wish you and your family good luck!!! And please bring my best wishes to them. Thanks again.

And Anne Pajuluoma wrote me a flurry of emails from Finland:

My dearest Joshua, 

I thank you for your kind email. You are an unique man in this whole world.

I want to tell you that people after death want to tell you that you must to help people to live better life in this world, if you only can.  Look at this: www.worlditc.org. You are an unique man. I need your help. Please, send my email for worldwide market to all Newspapers, please. Because here in Finland nobody help me to carry out this my matter. You are my last hope.  Send my email for you to all editors of Newspaper worldwide. I need to get atention worlwide with my email. Please, be with me.  Here in Finland nobody help me to carry out this matter. NEVER. Here I must live with poor life.

If I could get over my book of The Star Traveller in English to the worldwide market, perhaps then I could buy the real estate later for carry out tis my dream. But I haven´t money to pay to translator and no money for printing. So, my dream never come true. I feel cry just now when I write for you this my email.

Also I want to tell you that I haven´t seen my mother over 13 years. She is now 85 years old. She lives alone, because my father is death 2 years ago. We haven´t money to meet together. I want to buy a real estate that we all could live together. I miss my mother. My mother lives here in Finland, but no money to meet me. And also I haven´t money to meet her. We all are poor people. Forward this my email to all Newspaper in this world, because I need help worldwide, because here in Finland nobody wants to help me. I love America.

Reply me again,  Anne Pajuluoma

Dear Joshua, look at interview from Jarmo by www.artistinterviews.com/art/art.php  and from me Anne Pajuluoma by www.artistinterviews.com/books/books.php  I did forget to tell you from these a great interviews from us to you. But now you know that I need financing from this planet, because I need financing help to get gome, because without home I can´t work nothing. Anne. 

Dear Joshua,  Mr. Veli Granö made a great art-documentary film of Tähteläiset/Meet You in Finland Angel. It is a film from our life and art, from Jarmo Ylänen and Anne Pajuluoma´s life and art. It was show with Arctic Hysteria. It was exhibition of Finnish artists last summer at MoMa´s www.ps1.org  You can see this exhibition by internet. I want to tell to all people that you can see us by this dvd of Veli Granö´s film of Tähteläiset. Or you can take contact with us by our email address of anne@artstargate.com . Thanks, Anne.