Name: Dao My Ngoc Linh
Class: 081202A

Childhood memory


When I was about 7 or 8, , when I saw the flamboyant bloomed red and the blazing sunshine, I knew that the summer was coming very very near. And it would be temporary time to say goodbye with my friends and my books. It was sad, but for me it didn’t last long because every each summer came, I also came to my grandparents’ house and spent almost my summer there. In my heart, each summer holiday was an unforgettable memory.

I always started the beginning of my day by eating a simple delicious meal prepared by my grandma. I often stayed at home with my grandma and 2 younger sister and brother. Because my grandma was always busy with her business, taking care of the cattle, fed the fish, watered the trees, did in the garden, or did something like this. Therefore, we seemed to be free, enjoyed ourselves to the full, we went out and played with the fun neighbors. We played every thing we could think, and played until noon. If nobody called, maybe we didn’t also come back. After lunch,we had to go to sleep, which to adults is good thing for us, in the mind of the seven-year-old child, sleeping at noon really wasted of time, why didn’t we spare this time to do something more useful, such as swimming in the river in hot weather like this, it was so suitable, or build a house by the branches of coconut-palm, which we often called that sentry-box, we took from the pillows, blankets to the cook, pans. And the result was we went out without permission and played until my aunt called us for the meal. And not a few, we had to listen the same lesson from the old so that we still did it again. Now thinking again, I feel funny, if I were my grandma maybe I showed me the door since when. But no way, maybe I knew that my grandparents love me so much so I just did what I wanted to do. In the evening, we insisted in sleeping in that sentry-box despite the advice of my grandma. At last, we slept in it. However, we laid our back just a little time because of its narrowness, and mosquitoes. We quickly went into our dreams on the bed which my grandma made before. When the sun went to bed for a pretty long period, it was also time we spread the sleeping mat on the field which was harvested and burnt to look at the sky fulled of stars. Watching until feeling bored, we chased together around the field until feeling so tired and went straight the sleep. Sometimes, we helped my grandma with feeding fish or duck, watering the orchard cleaning the house, because at that time I was not a good daughter, even a naughty girl, so moments like this she was very surprised and prayed me a lot. However, it was not a long time, the day after I made something wrong again.

Three months went quickly, it was just as the first day I came. And it was time I had to say goodbye with my relatives.it was different from saying goodbye with my friends because I knew that it would take a long time to meet them again.but it was always a memory I can’t forget and I am always eager to wait for every each summer comes until now.