慈祥: kindly, benevolent (often of older person)...
送行: to see someone off, to throw someone a send-off party...
开夜车: to burn the midnight oil, to work late into the night...
不可避免: unavoidably...
哈哈: (onom.) laughing out loud...
默读: to read in silence...
国外: abroad, external (affairs), overseas, foreign...
接下来: to accept, to take, next, following...
