LIU WEI LI            S3-09          12/06/12

A TV show

         Today is Tuesday and it is my second day in Hunan. My cousins had to go to school in another place so they could not come to my house and visit us. However, all of my uncles and aunts as well as my grandmother came this morning. They were here to have lunch with us, after lunch, they played mahjong together for fun.

         I was watching TV after lunch while they were playing mahjong. The TV show I was watching was a story about a very poor family. There are three members in total in this family which are mother and two sons. Their father left them several years ago and they had to live on their own. Their younger son could not walk and talk properly when he was born and the elder son had heart disease. The family was extremely poor so they had no money to see the doctor. After a while, the mother and the younger brother came to the city and began to beg for money while the elder brother was studying in a university. One day, the mother found that the two hundred Yuan she recently got was lost and she was very upset and anxious. She went out to find where the money was. However, after several hours, the reporters found that she was trying to commit suicide. The reporters stopped her form doing that and she told them that the elder brother’s heart had a problem again and his life was in danger. That was why she wanted to commit suicide.

 I was very moved by this story. They kept living though they were very poor. Look at some of the young people these days, they don’t need worry about their food and living problem. However, they still not satisfied with what they had right now and always want more.