My journal to shandong

Here is another journal of mine...
This winter vacation, I visited my hometown, Shandong province in china. This is the place where my daddy grew up. Before we got there my dad told me a lot about his childhood. Like the food he used to love and all the traditional customs his family had. I was very curious did not know what would this big family like since I had never visit there before.

I promise I have never seen that much relatives before. I just had no idea that much people are related to me. They smiled and talked to me like we were friends for ages. Oh jesus I had just seen them exactly that moment! I have to be honest that I was scared at that time. Everything seemed over-whelming and everything was just not under my control. I just like a robot at that time, they took me there I would go there; they asked me questions I just answered them. I mean, I supposed to know who they are in the first place and then came to know them and finally we can talk like friends or close relatives whatever. I just felt terrible!

One day everything just changed. Since I can not adjust myself to the best condition, I got a cold after I stayed there for a week. I can not move, all I can do was just stay on the bed and enjoy the bored day. The thing I did not expect happend. My relatives come to see me everyday and took lots of fun stuff. Like a book or a video game. My little cousin even bring me a teddy bear to make me happy. I was moved so much by them. In my mind, though we are so called “relatives”, we had nothing in common and had no same experiences not suppose to be close like this. lying on the bed, I had no idea what to say. I just smiled to them and can not stop saying thank you. All of a sudden, I understood one thing: The thing my daddy really enjoy was not the food or the game he used to have. It is a word “family” that made him wanted to go home that much.

Thanks to this trip, I got to know the sense of big family and got to know what a true big family should look like. If I have a chance, I would love to go back there!