Amber

My College Life

   Hello, my name is Amber and my Chinese name is Huo hailian. I am a college student who come from a rural village. My parents are kind-hearted and diligent farmers. My village is quite small, and there are about 300 people .Before 2000, most people are farmers, now, we young people get out of it to have job in the big city.

Rice and cotton are main crops in our countryside. In my memory, we have 7 mu farmland in our family, and we fed about 10 head of sheep and 3 head of crow . in our house .My parents work in the farmland all year around, such as dress a crop, spray insecticide and so on. they want I and my old brother have a bright future by education .The busiest season is June in the college ,we make best of time to mow the wheat and separate the grains from wheat with a threshing machine ,and then dry wheat in a flat immense space .After that ,farmers deposit these wheat in a warehouse. Besides that, we plant cotton in the spring. First we should prepare some seedbeds ,and then we will put cottonseed into cotton bed ,and then cottonseed covered with fresh soil ,finally ,the cotton bed is covered with plastic sheeting in order to ensure the proper temperature. After two weeks ,these cottonseed will sprout through the soil .Farmers will busy to bedding these young plants and take good care of them ,such as dress a crop ,spray insecticide and apply fertilizer to cotton seedling , and that is a long time from seedling to grow up .These are agriculture in our countryside.

   These citizen in the village living separate, but inevitably, we help each other when some neighbor in need. For example, when a young people get married, most of village will attend his wedding .Every family will give the newlyweds some money and some bottles of wine as wedding gifts . The parents of the bridegroom will hold a feast to treat the guest. you will find some fun in the same day .In the morning , the bridegroom will hire 8 cars to bring bride from her home .Bride usually have some bridesmaids an these bridesmaids will get some fees from the bridegroom . the new couple will make a kowtow to their parents and other close relatives such as aunts ,uncles and so on .of course , these relatives will give the new couple some money when they accept their kowtow, after that, the new couple will be teased to eat a red apple by hanging over by a string, finally, a celebrate is bridal chamber . Young men in the village will tease the bride .Of course, they do it just for fun .

    In village , when the children grow up to 20 year old ,it is a good time for them to look for boyfriend and girlfriend .Generally speaking , the elder worthy aged will introduce young girls to boys .If they have an affinity to each other ,probably they will get married after two years later according to the accustom , the young man’s parent will give the girl’ parents about 30000 RMB as betrothal gifts .of course ,the young man will give her girlfriend ring as a token of their agreement to marriage . generally , as for the bride ,the distance between her new home from her parents home is not very far .

    Tremendous changes have take place in the village. The dirt road has become highway, so it is more convenient, especially in the rainy day; farmers do not mow the wheat by hand ,instead of that , machine has take the place of hand-working ,what we need to is take wheat to home . villager become more and more happiness .more children go school to receive education and go to college .Our government give more attention to rural areas , and farmers can receive allowance for their hard-working ；Pupils in the countryside have given milk ,bread in school .

    I cannot tell you all things I have experienced owing to the limited time , however ,I welcome you to come here to experience life in china .Chinese people are friendly and kind-hearted .

   Through two years’ get along well with each other ，I learn that American are friendly, I have had deeply affection with Bridget, Tara and Elizabeth Carpenter and so on ,so welcome to China!