My family (2)

I was short and skinny all the times until my second year in high school. I still remember that my height was 127cm and my weight was 28.5kg when I graduated from the elementary school. I was the monitor of my class in the last year of my middle school. Some time, the teachers brought a plant of rice or wheat from their homes and asked me to take to my home and ask my father about the treatment. My father was an agriculture engineer and knew most of the insects or disease of the plants. Every time when the teachers talked to me for my father's help, I was really embarrassed. My classmate said that I became the monitor because of my father, I tried to prove that was because of my academic performance.

When I was in the last year of my middle school, I heard girls in my class and my neighboring class said that our physics teacher liked to talk with girls. At that time, I walked to school from home everyday, but there were students who lived in school and their homes were kind of far away. Those students were much taller and mature than me.I thought that my physics teacher only liked big and pretty girls. But one day, I found that I was wrong. That was a physics class and we had an exam, I was working on the questions when I noticed my teacher stood beside my desk. Suddenly he grabbed my right hand and held it. I was scared to raise my head to look at him, instead, I used my other hand punched on his hand, he released my right hand and I ran out of the classroom and never went back.  Since then, I skipped the physics class and never went back. I went to the high school entrance exam and I got 46 out of 100 for my physics class. I had been doing well in my school since the second grade ( I got a kidney disease when I was five and had to go to a village doctor to take 2 shots every day until the doctor told my parents that I was recovered and could stop of seeing doctor when I was in second grade ).

I was lucky that I was admitted in a high school because at that time, only about 5 out of 50 students in my class were able to enter a high school and the rest of them all went back to their homes and worked in the farm as peasants. Until today I still believe that most of them are very smart and could have been much successful if they could get a chance to get further education. I was just being lucky in every step.

Because of the low score of the Physics class, I didn't get into the best high school in my county. Instead I went to a high school about 3 miles away at the other side of the town. I was living in the dormitory in the high school and that was my happiest year in my early life since I didn't have to worry to see the face of my father and I could read my books however late in the nights.

My period came in that summer and I was scared. My grandmother was with us that time, I remember she was smiling and said to me:"you are a woman now!". She led me to the bedroom and showed me how to put on a stripe with clean paper towels. My sister and my brother were kicking the door and shouted " we want too!"

The other memory of my time in that high school was that I was sleepy all the times. I was almost sleeping in every class. My classmate called me "sleeping bug". I realized now that I started growing from that time.