暑假当然要去中国

暑假当然要去中国

 

悦林

 

            几年前，听一位朋友说，孩子放假了，要带她去日本度假。当时羡慕不已。

           

            今年暑期将至，我为女儿注册了SAT强化班，加上她自己学校的暑期班和晚上校队的练球，“暑假”，对她来说并不轻松。我有些心疼女儿，小小年纪，怎么比谁都忙！于是想为她安排一个假期。我问女儿，“你有一个礼拜的空隙，想去加拿大还是去中国？”加拿大有分公司，去度假还可以顺便去考察一下业务情况，去中国，看看老人和亲戚，对我来说都可以，但是时间上只允许舍一取二。

 

她毫不犹豫地说，“当然是去中国！”没几年前，我还常常开玩笑似地“威胁”她说，“你不好好学习，就把你送回去”，她听说中国孩子读书辛苦，作业很多，所以最怕这一点。感谢“寻根之旅”夏令营，女儿参加了两次，就有些向往中国。每逢暑假就想去中国，去看看老家的爷爷奶奶外婆表兄表弟表姐们。我体谅孩子在美国的孤寂，也难得她有那份孝心，只要条件许可就应该让她如愿。

 

她很明确这次回去的任务就是替妈妈爸爸看看家人，要跟家里人在一起，爸爸妈妈两边的家人都要照顾到，三天住外婆这边，三天住爷爷那边。从这次她单独回国起，我们立了规矩，每逢她出门或妈妈出门，只要不与妈妈在一起，每天都要发一条电邮回来，汇报一天的事情。这些她真的都做到了。

 

我打电话问她在干吗，她说陪爷爷奶奶散步呢。第二天电话里告诉我，她陪奶奶看电视，奶奶睡着了，堂哥不顾她远道而来，只管与朋友去内蒙古旅游去了。大伯大妈都在忙着。我听得出来她有些孤单，有些无聊，爷爷看电视也会睡着。现在国内要有一群小朋友陪你玩也不容易。她还很体谅堂哥的出游，说他们高考象被关在监狱里一样，好不容易结束，与朋友约好了的，他不能不去嘛。

           

 她去郊区的老人山庄看望外婆，与外婆一起打乒乓球，采摘杨梅，拍下了很多鸽子的照片。喂鸽子喂鸭子和其它小动物，是她最喜欢的。白净的鸽子在绿草相间的青砖地上悠闲地啄食着女儿丢下的饼干。照片拍得很清晰，光线柔和，我把她的照片放在我的电脑上成了频幕图片。

 

以下是女儿电邮的摘要：

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