Candice – Yu J ingjing - #0505020258

In China, there is a saying, “A snow indicates a harvest the following year,” but this year the storm seemed to be one that could always be called one of the worst years in the history of China. Because of the terrible weather, the storm caused our country and the people huge losses.

My hometown is located in the northeast of Jiangxi province, a beautiful town, named Jingdezhen, which is famous for chinaware. We could not escape from this suffering either when the storm hit.

One morning, when I got up and opened the window curtains I found that the outside had changed overnight. The heavy snow covered the entire ground. The entire world was white. I like the snow, but I didn’t want to destroy this pure white. Before long I walked out to share with the beautiful snow. No wonder I thought it was wonderful. Seeing so many children playing and throwing snowballs, I couldn’t help holding a mass of snow and looking at it happily. I played to my heart's content. Suddenly a big giant snowball came flying at me. I lost the balance in both feet and couldn’t hold up my ponderous body anymore. I fell right between some very happy children. I didn’t feel either pain or shy only because I’m older than those young children surrounding me but also because my father was standing right behind me. Father had told me that I should not play children’s games. No matter how hard I’m hit, I still want to rise to my feet. I wanted to show I’m good. But when I got home I didn’t feel comfortable. I went into the kitchen and my mother saw the pale color in my face. She had guessed what happened to me. She didn’t ask me any questions but took out some aerodynes and pinched my skin. She knew that this time I was in pain.

I only told her the fact that I didn’t intend to but I couldn’t help but walk outside to share in the happiness with the children. I needn’t tell her because I felt things went well. Mother understood that I didn’t want to have them worry about me. For a while, all of these difficulties had been solved. Mother began to talk with me. She knew I didn’t tell her the facts because I am shy. I should not fall down with so many people around, but she said it didn’t matter. The next time she didn’t ask me how many people fell down. The TV set had recorded the situation of the disaster. I didn’t say anything and directly looked at the television to see the country news about the snowstorm in different zones.

Through the TV set I knew that the unprecedented snowstorm had brought us the huge disasters and personal misfortune. Many of us were trapped at home for nearly half a month. Some people even lost their warm houses because of the snowstorm. Many cities had to face the main electricity being cut off. The snowstorm almost destroyed the equipment in our lives, for example the roads, buildings, electrical systems. But under the control of the country leaders, the common people fought together against the snowstorm.

The terrible snowstorm had gone and it made me think a lot. I was in pain for a long time. Before the calamity of nature, our humans are very little and incapable. But the friendship and care between human beings makes us more powerful to overcome any disaster. We have reasons to believe that as long as we keep close to each other, human beings can create the phenomenon.