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YoYo (China and Venezuela, Age 15): English 413


      Life is  like a piece of paper. From the moment of our birth, the time recorded by the pen of our growth, as we add their favorite colors and scenery. So everyone has a their own portrait, only you can read the contents.                          
My mother and my father they are fall in love at the first sight. They meet only one time in a restaurant and they are falling in love. My mother told us that when they first meet my father dress up very ugly and funny also my father speak chinese very funny,my father didn’t know too much chinese because when my father was 14 years old he went to Venezuela with my grandfather and live there many years,so my father speak Spanish instead of Chinese, when they finish first meeting they falling in love with each other but after few days my father told my mother  that he going to leave soon so my mother decide to  follow my father went to Venezuela. When my mother went over to Venezuela she had a terrible time in there she was not acclimatized so she get very silk and she don’t understand what the people say her,she don’t any spanish.she feel very lonely she had no friends to talk to. But my mother try very hard to learn Spanish . Finally she knew spanish after few years.She know spanish and chinese。
There is a world of selfless love that a mother's love! The passage of time, in a small Spanish country. Summer is past , the cool autumn is come. In the meanwhile while lying in the operating room for few hours of women experienced childbirth,  she is painful, she cried hoarsely, wet hair casually posted on her forehead ,eyebrows twisted together into groups, eyes shining with tears rapid panting, hoarse voice and her hands clutching the sheets have already been soaked with sweat. Finally the baby was born, the baby cried, That woman giving birth lying on the operating room for hours  she already tired when she heard her baby crying she slight smile......her name is YOYO. The day my mother brought me to this beautiful world, began the first day of my life, when I was a baby,I am very weak so my mother took me back to China and let my grandmother took care of me.
Years standing on the shore, watching the passage of time, unknowingly I am 15 years old now. Many things have faded with the day of the disappearance. But there is one thing that makes me long time can not forget is that of a deep and unforgettable grandmother's love. My whole childhood is spent with my grandmother, my grandmother with her loving heart sinking, weaving  colors of my childhood. My grandmother is sixty three year old now, how no matter how far I go, my heart is always worried about my grandmother. In my mind she is the supreme mentor,she is the most important people in my life . Since childhood, my grandmother took care of 3 childrens. A blink of an eye, my wonderful childhood on the passage of time, and I had leave my  grandmother a full four years. Now, my lovely loving grandmother already 63 years old, she have a lot of wrinkles on her face , she's have a lot of gray hair, but her eyes did not change, her kind smile did not change, and the love she told me  is never going to change . Grandmother, I want to say to you: "You're great!" This is not just listen from my mother, but also because of  my own personal feelings. From my teeth language, from the time I started to learn  how  walk you alway here on my side . From what I remember, you alway  taught me the truth in life, lived a carefree life. Years passed, and experienced a lot, but the most memorable is when my  grandmother laugh, that hint of sunshine and hope that touch the heart.
When I was 6 years old I starting going to elementary school , everythings is strange to me, but that day is a new start in my life, a new starting line from the first day of school. In school I learned a lot of Chinese cultural relics and historical sites. In China, there are a lot of culture, there are many famous buildings from China are concerned. Each building they all have a wonderful story. For example, the "Great Wall of China", which has a thousand years of history and culture. The Great Wall was built is because to prevent the invasion of northern nomads.since. they built the Great Wall there are countless people deaths, they are buried in the ground. Chinese have a saying, " who has never been to the Great Wall is not a true man." This reflects the spirit of boldness of the Chinese nation, and positive spirit of struggle.
My school life is colorful, and it brought me joy; it gives me confidence; it made me acquainted with many friends. I spent four years of my school life. In the classroom, we learn very hard, after school, students is playing in Playground,we playing, jumping rope, hide and seek ......,  it is all our games, we can always find happiness in this wonderful place. While staying in this school for four years, but every day is not boring, every day there are new stories, has a different mood. But In China, the teachers in school are all diabolical. Chinese teachers are always very strict with us at our homework and studies they want us to be serious too. We cannot walk around or play during forty-five minutes. We have a lot of papers, Teachers just leave mountains of homework for us every day, and even more on holiday, if you don't finish you will have punishment such as called home, after school, copy lesson, announce in front of all the students etc.….. On one occasion, I did not finish the homework because I was sick, the teacher didn;t listen to me when I explain why i didn't finish homework and just give me detention  I feel so sad  Therefore, such a severe punishment so I always remember  to complete homework.
In April 2013, my mother came back China to visit us, but this is not just to visit, but to bring us out of the country. When I  knew we will leave China and go to Venezuela ,It came too sudden I can not accept, my mother told us to pack up the stuff ,I  went back to the  my room, I didn't pack up my stuff  first but sitting quietly  in bed, but series of tears flow from my sad face silently down, I didn’t crying, just let the tears kept streaming down. But I can not change the fact,I really hate leaving , it is bitter, sad,, I try to pack up my feelings, began to pack my stuff, I do not have time to say goodbye with my friends I left without a word.
     In the dark night. The streets are silent, everybody have entered the sweet dreams. Alarm clock wake me up, I still get up like normal,go to bathroom and, brush my teeth, wash my face, I feel bad. I put my suitcase in the door and  look back for a moment to my room, I thought:  this walk, I do not know when to come back? "I think the problem for a long time and finally have the answer, I should be brave enough to face the problem brave challenge of time,  this walk does not mean I will never came back , I'll be back," I quietly closed the door, and go down to the stairs. My Grandmother were get busy making breakfast, I sat  on the sofa holding a cell phone and texting message. Time off  fast, we ate breakfast and ready to get on the car and leave the house, time rolls on wheels while my grandmother figure becomes to smaller and smaller until it disappeared I feel so depressed in the car . I try to pick up my feelings, lying in the car slowly and fell asleep. When I woke up we ready on the airport, and we check in to airport we waited patiently for boarding. When we went inside the airplane, I watched the sky from the window the sky  is blue, clear blue skies, is kind of shallow, like a block of blue crystal, it always feels like pure, refreshing. I feel much better. Soon the plane is flew away, from China to Venezuela need to be one day of time,the plane is travel around half circle of the earth. Finally the plane landed to Venezuela airport.  I saw a lot of  foreigners, when they spoke spanish ,I did not understand, but it sound very interesting, my father came to the airport to pick us up and we went  home, on the road at the top of the hill I saw a lot of old house I feel  so weird why they are lived in hill? they are not afraid to live on the hill? My mother said it  because they are poor so live they need to live the houses like that,  and it is cheaper areas they don’t need to pay too much money in  here. Now I understood why. I lived in Venezuela two months, learned a lot of things about this country. And something about Venezuela's culture and customs.            
Since two months I've been living in a new country, although I don’t understand the words when they taught to me , but  it sound  interesting. I started to learn spanish when I go to after school with my sister. But in June, one day, my mother told us that we would go to the US to studied, I was so surprise  I could not believe my ears,. My brain seemed to have lost the ability to command the actions. My mother told us to packed up our stuff and ready the day after tomorrow we  will went to U.S. Time flies, the day after tomorrow we wake up early and rush to the airport, on the road to the airport, and suddenly, the sky floated a piece of black dark clouds covered the sky, a few lightning designated space and over, and then I heard a loud clap of thunder, rushing and it was raining,  I feel sad  In fact, I do not understand why my mother  want us to leave the country? Why we need to went to  United States? I do not understand! When we got to the airport, the rain stopped,the sun is shining,  they give us refreshing feeling. I came to the United States four years already,I learned english very hard. but it is very difficult to learn, many people will make fun of me when i speak english , sometimes I feel sad, But I believe there will always be one day, all my efforts are worth it. In these four years I lived with my mother and family,my mother give me all i need  and finally in the four years I know why  my mother take us to U.S.A.it because they want us to  have a good environment for learning,and we will have a googd life in the future, My parents do a lot things for me. She has a lot to give up her careers,and lived with us in U.S.A and every day I see her very tired.She is my best mother .
In our daily Life will always be a lot of disappointments and not too unhappy,  no matter how hard it is do not give up, we must learn to cherish life every day, because every day, will be the first day of the rest of our lives among. The road ahead is still a long way, you may cry, but we must go on,  we must not stopping and try hard in the meantime you need to say thank you to your parent everything you have now is your parent give it to you ,they work every hard Don’t forgot them.

3 comments:

  1. I really like how you describe your parents they meet each other. Also please explain more details about your feeling when you first came to United States.

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  2. I like the way you write the love about your grandmother and details about your school life. You should try to add more details about your friend in your country and in the U.S.

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  3. I LOVE IT ... sometimes was funny ... I like when you describe your parent and your grandmother when she was taking care of you with a lot of details. But you should add more details about your friend in your country and in New York

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