Translation of a Kid's Chinese Writing from a Diary

[mrfante]

Hello All,

 

I need to learn what is written in the attached picture. This belongs to a friend's childhood diary, the chinese girl (I assume she was 9-10 years old back then) stayed in their house in a small city in Turkey for a month, and while leaving she wrote on my friend's diary.

 

Can somebody help me with translation?

[edelweis]

I wish the China-Turkey friendship exists forever and ever

Dear Turkish children, please don't forget a foreign child

(((( I'm not sure what 中国 is doing by itself there ???))))))

Written by Luo Bao

[Publius]

*Luo Bao => Luo Ying

[edelweis]

thank you for the correction Publius. I've thought of this interpretation for the lone 中国：
"don't forget a child from a foreign land - China."
Do you agree? (if not, I am interested in how you would express this in Chinese)

[Publius]

The em dash works pretty much the same way in Chinese as it does in English. It introduces a parenthetical remark for the word or phrase directly preceding it. If you want to say "don't forget a child from a foreign land - China," it has to be 不要忘记一个来自遥远的国度——中国——的小孩.

If you write 请你们别忘记一个外国小朋友——中国, China would end up modifying 小朋友, not 外国. So the only explanation would be

请你们别忘记一个外国小朋友！

——中国・罗莹

[edelweis]

thanks Publius

[mrfante]

Hello guys,

 

Thanks a lot for your help. Cheers