暑假當然要去中國

暑假當然要去中國

 

悅林

 

            幾年前，聽一位朋友說，孩子放假了，要帶她去日本度假。當時羨慕不已。

           

            今年暑期將至，我為女兒注冊了SAT強化班，加上她自己學校的暑期班和晚上校隊的練球，“暑假”，對她來說並不輕鬆。我有些心疼女兒，小小年紀，怎麽比誰都忙！於是想為她安排一個假期。我問女兒，“你有一個禮拜的空隙，想去加拿大還是去中國？”加拿大有分公司，去度假還可以順便去考察一下業務情況，去中國，看看老人和親戚，對我來說都可以，但是時間上隻允許舍一取二。

 

她毫不猶豫地說，“當然是去中國！”沒幾年前，我還常常開玩笑似地“威脅”她說，“你不好好學習，就把你送回去”，她聽說中國孩子讀書辛苦，作業很多，所以最怕這一點。感謝“尋根之旅”夏令營，女兒參加了兩次，就有些向往中國。每逢暑假就想去中國，去看看老家的爺爺奶奶外婆表兄表弟表姐們。我體諒孩子在美國的孤寂，也難得她有那份孝心，隻要條件許可就應該讓她如願。

 

她很明確這次回去的任務就是替媽媽爸爸看看家人，要跟家裏人在一起，爸爸媽媽兩邊的家人都要照顧到，三天住外婆這邊，三天住爺爺那邊。從這次她單獨回國起，我們立了規矩，每逢她出門或媽媽出門，隻要不與媽媽在一起，每天都要發一條電郵回來，匯報一天的事情。這些她真的都做到了。

 

我打電話問她在幹嗎，她說陪爺爺奶奶散步呢。第二天電話裏告訴我，她陪奶奶看電視，奶奶睡著了，堂哥不顧她遠道而來，隻管與朋友去內蒙古旅遊去了。大伯大媽都在忙著。我聽得出來她有些孤單，有些無聊，爺爺看電視也會睡著。現在國內要有一群小朋友陪你玩也不容易。她還很體諒堂哥的出遊，說他們高考象被關在監獄裏一樣，好不容易結束，與朋友約好了的，他不能不去嘛。

           

 她去郊區的老人山莊看望外婆，與外婆一起打乒乓球，采摘楊梅，拍下了很多鴿子的照片。喂鴿子喂鴨子和其它小動物，是她最喜歡的。白淨的鴿子在綠草相間的青磚地上悠閑地啄食著女兒丟下的餅幹。照片拍得很清晰，光線柔和，我把她的照片放在我的電腦上成了頻幕圖片。

 

以下是女兒電郵的摘要：

hello mommy

of course i have spelling mistakes...i make them on purpose! haha so youve been sleeping better? aw you dont want me back because then you

wont be able to sleep as well!

and now i seem to be writing like a fob because i just finished reading a book about a chinese girl growing up in america...you should read the book and then we can "discuss"

ive bought alot of things already and i havent taken count of it but i still have at least half my money left

today we went to nainais house to get her cell phone and visit her

"house"...did you know it costs $1 for a ride on their bus? yup and had chao mian and qiao yu soup...jealous? muahhaha

im slowing adjusting to my contacts and putting them on and taking them off is not as scary or difficult as i used to think.

i bought some fake vcds(which store owners hide)

we went to a "steak house" for dinner where the boys were very happy and da yi fu wasnt because the vegetarian pizza was horrible...

did you know...that depending on the "class" of the restaurant you go to,

you can spend 3x or more on the food even if its not better? they also charge you for those fancy towels at the fancy restaurants i see poverty everywhere, it makes me sad, and the pollution makes me sad

too.

i played pingpong at nainais place with chao jun and pingpong here at sanyis with da yi fu...

yup thats about it

 

love

yaoyao

 

ps what am i going to write to dad? hes not gonna understand me and he

probably wont really read it anyways....

 

hello mommy

i have been reading， sleeping， and watching tv， but mostly

eating。。。these days it seems like im eating every other 5 hours， which

is pretty much true。。。

we went to the park with the mountain today and walked alllllll the way

around。。。then we took a bus back。。。 when people use their card， the

machine goes lao ren hao or gong ren hao。。。hahaha

yea so maybe i am getting bored but i do need to read my books。 i think san

yi will take me shopping tomorrow night since ive only bought one

shirt。。。

this side of the family is so separated。。。lili is in college and she

having her finals so shes spending all her waking hours in class。。。her

mom is sick。。。wangli went somewhere to travel with his friends since he

finished his college testing。。。im am quite alone。。。i never understand

the things that grandpa says and im sure that half of it is

interesting。。。

love，

yaoyao

 

ps thers lots of mosquitos too，，，im scared。。。but theres a mosquito net

on my bed so yay