ESL作业: My Strongest Childhood Memory

   My strongest memory from my childhood is when I tried to find some left over yams from a harvested field with my grandmother one day when I was 5 years old in 1960. It was the time when the Great Famine happened in China. Over 30,000,000 people died in China during that time. Everybody was hungry and wanted to find something to eat, so there were lots of people in the field with my grandmother and me. Actually, there was nothing left in the field after the harvest, neither yams nor the plants from the yams or their leaves. But even so, the people continued searching lots of times, hoping they would find something unexpected. When the people were searching in the field, someone yelled – “run, the managers are coming”! Everybody ran away very fast, except my grandmother and me with our empty cloth bag. I was a little girl and hungry, I couldn’t run fast. My grandmother was old, and she had very small feet which were damaged by foot-binding. The managers came in and surrounded us with a very bad manner. After seriously warning us, they grabbed our cloth bag and took it with them, even though the bag was empty. After many years, I still feel sad about losing the cloth bag. It really was a valuable property for a poor family at that time.  I also feel sad for my grandmother. She had a very difficult time during her whole life. Until she got old she still had to suffer from hunger.  I also remembered how hard it was for her to walk in the field with her damaged small feet. I can never forget the difficult time my family had during the Great Famine in China.

 

 

 

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• 如此忧伤恐惧的童年，读完后，眼泪润湿了我的眼睛。 -紫君- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/27/2014 postreply 12:19:14

• Vivid and sentimental childhood memory. So sad, let's cherish li -京燕花园- ♀ (142 bytes) () 04/27/2014 postreply 12:42:17

• 谢谢两位。常到这里来学习，受益匪浅。 -eRandom- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/27/2014 postreply 12:48:02

• 写得很生动. 我眼睛也湿了。 -绿_茶- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/27/2014 postreply 13:18:50

• 也谢谢绿茶。喜欢这个名字。 -eRandom- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/27/2014 postreply 13:22:23

• 第一次在美语坛见到绿_茶，问声好，欢迎你有空就常来玩。 -紫君- ♀ (864 bytes) () 04/27/2014 postreply 13:26:25

• 谢谢。您好！最近打算好好学习，所以来看看。以后要常来。 -绿_茶- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/27/2014 postreply 16:01:38

• 好呀,欢迎你。 -紫君- ♀ (204 bytes) () 04/27/2014 postreply 16:19:07

• 谢谢！一定去看看。 -绿_茶- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/27/2014 postreply 17:37:43

• Great.Have a nice week. -紫君- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/28/2014 postreply 08:07:54

• 如此忧伤的童年真让人难过。谢谢eRandom分享，问好！ -南山松- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/27/2014 postreply 16:29:47

• 也谢谢你。同时谢谢你的温馨问候！ -eRandom- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/27/2014 postreply 17:36:31

• 谢谢回复。中国哪个时代都不缺这种邪恶的管理人员。旧时代叫爪牙，狗腿子；共产党 -eRandom- ♀ (304 bytes) () 04/27/2014 postreply 21:57:33

• Very moving narrative! Do come and share often. -冲浪潜水员- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/27/2014 postreply 22:39:10

• 谢谢冲浪潜水员的鼓励。常看你的精彩贴子，受益颇多。 -eRandom- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/28/2014 postreply 05:03:52

• 写得真实感人, 我的眼眶也湿润了. -~叶子~- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/28/2014 postreply 13:58:20

• 多谢叶子的表扬。 -eRandom- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/29/2014 postreply 06:58:12

• 那个时候太恐怖。。听说还有‘吃人’的。。 -何木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/05/2014 postreply 23:54:25