There is an old English saying: “Child is father of the man". It is from William Wordsworth's poem “My Heart Leaps Up". By this, it means that people's personalities form when they are children.
There is also a Chinese version of this saying, which is, “you can predict a manhood at three years old” (三岁看老)。
Well, apparently this rule also applies to womanhood. Now let me share a couple of silly things I did when I was a young child.
I spent the first ten years of my life in a military base in China. It was in a rural area near the Guangzhou Zoo. Back then, kids had very little pressure on marks, there was no extracurricular whatsoever. All we did after school was playing, the endless tree climbing, fishing in farmers’ fishponds, swimming in the river, etc. etc.
One day, a neighbor told me that the Zoo was going to let out a tiger, and everybody was welcome to go and visit. I woke up super early next morning, actually, I felt like I barely slept the night before, due to the excitement of finally getting to see a tiger out of its cage. I anxiously waited until it was the school time, and of course, instead of going to school, I went directly to the Zoo. I spent the whole day in front of the tiger's cage, yet, as you may know already, they did not let the tiger out. Sigh. What kind of a grown up will make such a lie to a little girl?
My parents still remember all the silly things I did back at that age. For example, one morning, after I was dropped at the school, I walked all the way back home only half an hour later. Because I went to school without books and homework. I totally forgot my backpack! My Dad used to say, if I were a soldier, this was like going to the battlefield without a gun, I would be dead within two minutes.
Many decades gone by, now as a grown up, I am still busy daydreaming every day, like that young little girl, waiting for the tiger in front of the cage. I am still careless, so careless that my mom used to joke that if I gone out shopping with my son, I'd forgotten all about him and come home alone.
Thank you for spending your precious time reading my silly stories. What a life I have, so simple and naive, yet so happy. LOL
carefree, childhood! Thank you for sharing. I grew up near the Beijing Zoo. Once, while hanging out behind the Beijing Planetarium, some friends and I caught a guinea fowl (珍珠鸡）that had fled the zoo. It was a beautiful creature. We eventually returned it to the zoo. We'd have kept it had it been a tiger. :)
There is an old English saying: “Child is father of the man". It is from William Wordsworth's poem “My Heart Leaps Up". By this, it means that people's personalities form when they are children.
There is also a Chinese version of this saying, which is, “you can predict a manhood at three years old” (三岁看老)。
Well, apparently this rule also applies to womanhood. Now let me share a couple of silly things I did when I was a young child.
I spent the first ten years of my life in a military base in China. It was in a rural area near the Guangzhou Zoo. Back then, kids had very little pressure on marks, there was no extracurricular whatsoever. All we did after school was playing, the endless tree climbing, fishing in farmers’ fishponds, swimming in the river, etc. etc.
One day, a neighbor told me that the Zoo was going to let out a tiger, and everybody was welcome to go and visit. I woke up super early next morning, actually, I felt like I barely slept the night before, due to the excitement of finally getting to see a tiger out of its cage. I anxiously waited until it was the school time, and of course, instead of going to school, I went directly to the Zoo. I spent the whole day in front of the tiger's cage, yet, as you may know already, they did not let the tiger out. Sigh. What kind of a grown up will make such a lie to a little girl?
My parents still remember all the silly things I did back at that age. For example, one morning, after I was dropped at the school, I walked all the way back home only half an hour later. Because I went to school without books and homework. I totally forgot my backpack! My Dad used to say, if I were a soldier, this was like going to the battlefield without a gun, I would be dead within two minutes.
Many decades gone by, now as a grown up, I am still busy daydreaming every day, like that young little girl, waiting for the tiger in front of the cage. I am still careless, so careless that my mom used to joke that if I gone out shopping with my son, I'd forgotten all about him and come home alone.
Thank you for spending your precious time reading my silly stories. What a life I have, so simple and naive, yet so happy. LOL
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中英文分割线。 夹带私货一个我喜欢的儿歌， “You Are My Sunshine"
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Many many happy days to come-:)).....-,
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She is an all-time favorite among many-,many children-:&us too-:))..
wasn't a tiger,they freed a lion,hipo,zebra&giraffe2 Madagascar
then I would have skipped the school for the whole week!
carefree, childhood! Thank you for sharing. I grew up near the Beijing Zoo. Once, while hanging out behind the Beijing Planetarium, some friends and I caught a guinea fowl (珍珠鸡）that had fled the zoo. It was a beautiful creature. We eventually returned it to the zoo. We'd have kept it had it been a tiger. :)
just a guinea fowl
双鱼座？：）
突然觉得我应该早发QQH提醒你，你原来是忘了来交美坛过去几个月大作业啦！：）
有洒脱的歌声，漂亮的文笔，地道的发音！
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我一时语塞。想了一会儿，说，去给我做饭！
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family rode the #6 bus to get there..... Had been there several times during my childhood....
I'm sure you've been to the Zoo, who hasn't?
visit this forum on a regular basis
where I was born
remember where I was born at all.：）
Please share your golden innocent childhood fantasy with us！：）
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conquering the universe & being immortal. My dream was crushed when I realized that I was too poor to afford either of them.
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喜欢的歌，小赛唱得好听