4/24學寫英文

Relaxing will make you get less side effects, my boss told me on Thursday, April 22. I thought it right, stress and horror are enemies of ourself. After going through vaccine hesitancy, I got my first moderna covid-19  vaccine on March 26, my 2^nd dose appointment was set up on April 23rd which was yesterday.

my appointment was at 11:45, I have plenty time to do my own things in the morning. In the past a week, the weather was pretty bumpy. Rain, wind, snow and cold air all hit this area after a month’s warm weather and people cheering for the beauty of spring. Probably since I have been walking outside for many years and I feel so close to nature. As an interaction, nature feels me and loves me too. Yesterday the temperature jumped from 40F back to 60F, people breathed spring air again. A nice warm day would bring me luck, I thought.

  In the flowerbed at entrance of my complex, weeping fountain cherry blossom’s snow white flowers were almost gone, their reddish brown leaves were densely growing. Flowers go, flowers come. Now, the dogwood started blooming. Those blushing pink, cup-shaped baby flowers are so cute. Same as fountain cherry ，Yoshino cherry,  magnolia， plum and malus trees, dogwood grows flowers before leaves popping out.

My vaccine location was in a CVS store 15 minutes away from home, pretty close which makes me so happy. I hate driving far. The young female nurse was an Asian. she might tell I was a little bit nervous and tried to comfort me.  I asked her a few questions, “should I take medication if I feel sick…”. “Follow your body” she said with smile on her face. “drink more water, rest well, if you feel very sick and need medication, then take it. otherwise you not , just follow your body. Generally speaking the side effects will start between 12-24 hours after your shot.” So all the nasty sick- feeling will come around midnight till tomorrow noon time. I calculated inside. I will be ok, I will still be myself in the following 12 hours!

I felt normal after waiting for another 20 minutes in store, so I left. The traffic was busy, cars whooshing by, white petals whirlling on the road with them. In my sight , light Pink and white spring is leaving. Instead,  green, red and purple-pink spring is coming, natural sceneries change fast, now the white church at the intersection was standing behind the yellowish green leaves.  

Motivated by some books I read in CVS, I stopped by at town library and borrowed a few books all related to the history of CT or New England. As a 7 years' resident of a small town in CT of New England, a new immigrant, I think it’s time to know more about this region. I know I will always be thought an outsider of this ground no matter how many years I live here. but I feel the more you know about it, the closer you feel to the people, to the soil, to the air of it. It will take time, but for me, it will be an enjoyable joujourney.

I have prepared of facing the flu-like symptoms, sitting on bed, I read a little bit, then went to bed around 10 pm. My mind was clear when I first woke up at mid-night, I was still myself at my 2^nd waking up time around 3:30pm.I knew I survived from the 2^nd shot, I didn’t get any flu-like symptoms at all. The only side effect was sore arm. I FELT I WAS BLESSED. 

I WALKED FOR ONE HOUR IN THE MORNING AS USUAL, BY now,  After almost 24 hours from the 2nd shot,I FEEL NOTHING WRONG. 

第二針莫德納疫苗打完後，隻在第二天注射周圍有輕酸脹痛感，動作完全不受影響。這種感覺在第三天清晨就完全消失了。對疫苗的反應完全是因人而異，所以是趕著什麽就打什麽吧。

當人們還沉醉在四月的春光裏時，冷空氣由南向北襲來。雨雪狂風後，還沒欣賞個夠，梅李櫻蘭的白粉春光就走了。好在我又發現了新的春光: dogwood,白海棠，eastern redbud，山櫻。對運動完的小子說:看，校園裏的白花謝了，不過山櫻樹已經掛滿了花苞，下周就會開了;看遠處那些白花累累的樹，這時它們的白花謝了，新葉長出，它們正消融在綠色的春草裏。小子"嗯嗯呀呀"聽得挺有興趣。

今早身體狀況如常，出去走路。灌木園入口的兩棵守門野海棠小樹，白花已謝了一多半，另一株花基為粉玫瑰色的海棠木始開新花。兔先生一家的兩位成員遛到園門口附近曬太陽，吃草食，發現我在關注它們，一溜煙地鑽進園裏。

有一段時間沒進林子了，本以為會有不小變化，但情況並非如此。林外花開已經兩季了，林內還是綠，灰，棕的世界。野花還沒動靜，變化最大的要數生長在淺溪邊，一柱柱如抽筍的綠葉植物。驚喜地在林外的池塘發現一隻藍鷺，這可是2021年以來我見到的第一隻藍鷺，作為開始，我知道以後會常常見到它們了。

中午和兒子一起吃飯時提到了外國人講英文的口音話題，想來笑人。說到印度人講英文的口音重，兒子同意。他說有次上課，一個印度同學因為口音重，老師聽不清，讓他重新再說一次。結果，桌下眾同學的小笑最後合成了人人都可以聽到的笑。。。與孩子的飯桌上的聊天總是有意思的。