Hello everyone: A warm hello from frigid Colchester, VT, just off Lake Champlain. It’s two below zero this morning, and we’re ending 2017 much as we ended last year. Last night we had dinner—bouillabaisse—with the Wysolmerskies, and today we are making our annual pilgrimage to Montreal for brunch at Lemeac.
In many ways, 2017 was a difficult year, particularly for immigrants and members of minority communities. For the first time in years, intolerance and divisiveness threaten to undermine our country’s most cherished values. In the face of these challenges, our residency’s commitment to diversity and social justice remain strong. Though we come from many different backgrounds, we are united by a common devotion to medical science, teaching, and patient care.
Diversity enriches us, and as 2018 draws near, let’s acknowledge how fortunate we are to be members of this community. Whatever challenges and opportunities the new year brings, we will face them together, carried into the future by a rich array of talents, perspectives, opinions, and strengths. The unlimited potential unleashed by our diversity fills me with energy, hope, and confidence on this New Year’s Eve.
Happy New Year, everyone.
Mark
PS A smorgasbord of ”Happy New Years” to help us celebrate:
Korean: 새해 복 많이 받으세요! (sae-hae bok mani badesaeyo, which literally translates, Receive much fortune in the new year)
-YungAh Lee
Yiddish: א גוט געבענטשט יאר (this prints backwards)- Ah goot gebentscht yohr (a well blessed year)
-Steve Gore
-Mark Swidler
Greek: Ευτυχισμένος ο Νέος Χρόνος!
-Antonios Charokopos
Farsi: Sale no mobarak!
"ÓÇá äæ ãÈÇј "
-Ana Rabiee
-Leila Haghighat
Japanese: Akemashite omedetou or omedeto or omedetōgozaimasu
明けましておめでとうございます
-Shuta Ishibe
-Kaoru Harada
-Ben Lu
Portuguese: Feliz Ano Novo
-Ana Perdigoto
French: Bonne année!
-Alexandra Lansky
-Blerta Green
-Louise Dembry
-Julius Chapiro
Hindi: Sal Mubarak is Hindi for happy Hindu new year which comes after Diwali in the fall, but it is translated to happy new year so I think it works!
-Manisha Juthani-Mehta
Albanian: Gezuar Vitin E Ri
-Blerta Green
Italian: Buon Capodanno
-Blerta Green
Spanish: Feliz año nuevo
-Blerta Green
Turkish: Yeni yılınız kutlu olsun or Mutlu yillar” (pronounced as moo-th-lo yill-ar)
-Zeynep Kubilay
-Denizhan Ozdemir
Telugu (Southern India): Nootana samvatsara subha kankhsalu (Phonetically: Noo-da-nah sum-vut-sah-rah shoo-ba kahn-sha-loo)
-Ethan Bernstein
Malayalam (Southern India): Puthuvatsarashamsakal
-Steffne Kunnirickal
Hungarian: Boldog uj evet (with accents over the U and first e)
-Brienne Miner
Russian: S novym godom! (С Новым Годом)
-Michael Simonov
-Dasha Madeeva
-Julius Chapiro
-Natalie Medvedeva
新年快樂
Mandarin: Xīnnián kuàilè or Gong Xi Fa Cai
Taiwanese: sin-nî khòai-lo̍k
-Ben Lu
-Natalie Uy
ASL:
-Nicolette Rodriguez
Ibo (Nigerian): Afo ohuru oma" which translated means..."have a good or beautiful or excellent New Year"
Onyema Ogbuagu
Hebrew: Shana tova or (שנה טובה)
-David Hass
-Aharon Benelyahoo
-Julius Chapiro
German: Frohes Neues Jahr
-Julius Chapiro
-Max Stahl
Latvian: Laimīgu Jauno Gadu
-Julius Chapiro
Urdu: Nayaa Saal Mubarak or Naga Saal Mubarak
-Naseema Merchant
-Fahad Faruqi
Hawaiian: Haole maka hiki hou
-Dana Dunne
Tagalog: Maligayang bagong Taon
-Natalie Uy
Filipino Hokkien or Fukien - (a very niche dialect that Chinese Filipino people speak): Kiong Hee Huat Tsai!
-Natalie Uy