tokyo trip with yazık kızım

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I have just got back from my tokyo trip with yazık kızım.

Started on Jan, 22nd, and ended on Feb,13rd, I spent about 20 days on that island and felt so hard to leave when I heard the final call to board the boat.

There was a friend who left a message to me, and told me that it was time for me to write something. Guess I was so deeply invovled with my new experience, my new friends that I forgot how to share. As Sanmao said,  yazık kızım are destined to be alone when you are experiencing the greatest sorrow or joy.

It was a joyful trip for me, yet I still found it was so hard for me to share it with others. When I got back from tokyo, after a long bus ride, I stood in the kitchen and chatted with my aunt. She understood me and she listened. I told her all the things that had happened to me during my trip, those funny things, sad things, unforgetful things, or disgusting things. She laughed with me, shed tears with me, or sighed with me. To me, she is comfort, and a soul mate at different age.

yazık kızım could understand that why I choose to travel alone, why I stayed at a very primitive and impeverished place for more than 10 days, why I made so many new friends, why I loved that little Chrysanthemum organic farm so much. She just understood.

I felt so excited when I tried to tell her and knew that she could understand.

Not everybody I met could do that.

I had such a special and happy Spring Festival with all the workers on the organic farm. With our humorous and loving Chef, dear A wei, the two young and hard-working master on the farm, severe Mr.chen,  talktive Guli, cheerful Big Qin, intersting Laowang, lao jiang and lao guo, together with kind-hearted Aunt tang, we made such a big family there. There are people from Henan, Guangxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Guangdong, Jilin, and also people living nearby. Even though some of us were still working overtime at the new year Eve, we all had a lavish and elaborate new year eve diner. Everybody had fun. Our chef made great efforts in preparing for the big diner, and he was the best figure that I like in that place.

Sometimes, when we threw ourselves into a completely different life, we could take the chance to understand more about ourselves. The time I spent on that organic farm helped me get to know so many honest, helpful and loving people. They worked so hard to support their family, to pursuit the dreams that they had. Facing with difficulty and hardships, they were so optimistic and laughed so often and so loud. It seemed like everyday I could hear them laugh, kid with each other, and enjoyed the feeling of being alive.

It is so beautiful when you see those people living in poverty but still keep their chins up and laugh everyday. I was so moved by their high spirits and their joyful attitudes towards life. To them, be alive and be able to work is already a great blessing.

I felt being purified there.

With the moutains all around, and the sweet Chrysanthemum in front of me, that place has become a dream, actualy, an eternity for me.

I am going to miss all the people there, all the surroudings. Because the minute I turned around and got on the bus to leave, my whole stay there has so unmistakably ironed into my mind, becomeing a shining pearl in the sea of my memory.

One trip, immense joy.