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Will go back to my hometown again
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Finally I fixed the dates on Aug 23-28 to go back to my hometown, Baodi Tianjin. My mum just went to countryside home from my younger brother's in Tianjin city, she stayed there for more than 4 months to take care of her grandson. My father stays alone at countryside. They are both full of concern about each other. It is really a big challenge for an old woman to get used to the city life for she never leaves the countryside before. She does not belongs to modern city, modern life. Fortunately my brother's mother-in-law can give help for some time so my mum can take a break.
Last year I went home(hometown, I always use "go home" ) 7 times, some are on purpose, some are on business trip to Beijing. But so far this year I went back on April Tomb Sweeping Day. This year the business is slowing down and we don't have so many trips. My mother seems to feel something different and asked me on phone "You don't have so many business trips as before, is the business going bad?" The parents are always concerning about the kids no matther where and when. I know my parents miss me a lot. And I feel it much stronger as they get older day by day.
There were huge changes happending in my hometown. The farmers plant and harvest with mechanical machanization which relieves the farmers from the heavy labor work. And the farmer can have some business to make more money during the free time. They buid new house, use electrical appliance, no big difference from the city life, I think even better than city since they have free mining water, fresh vegetable, lower living cost... Yesterday my father told me the cable TV was just installed with 54 channels, very clean screen, they are very happy. I will buy a new LED TB for them when I go home this time. The old one is more than 11 years, I bought it on the second spring festival after my coming to Shanghai.
If there is no limit here, I can write a lot of things about my hometown. I will share with my friends later. I always get excited each time I arrive at my middle school, the river before the village because I was born there, I miss and love that land.
Post comment Comment (2 replies)
- Reply snowflying
- so moved article, i seem i have felt your deep missing to your hometown and your parents. indeed, we born in a place when our childhood,but we live and work in another place,most of people live such a life, maybe all the future youngers like this. so our missing to our hometown,to our folks living in the small village,to our parents always grow with time ,even never stoping. so happy and missing emotion our human have!
in nowaday modern traffic tool, from Tianjin to Shanghai is not a far distance, if possible, surely should be more back home, because parents are older year by year after all. they must always hope to see their child's looks personally,though they don't say out sometimes. in fact, i back home less too,though i'm nearer than yours. let us overcome excuse,go back home more hereafter.
