My cousin’s story

Things didn’t turn out the way they were supposed to, But what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it. ------------life of PI

One night not long ago, I found some photos from a IM software. They are my cousin’s photos. These photos are were taken in the USA .In one photo, she was sand surfing in a desert. In another picture, she was swimming in a huge swimming pool.

She was a swimmer when she was very young. She was sent to a sports school by her parents to learn swimming when she was 5 years old by her parents. She was in this school for 6 years. During these 6 years she could only go home once a week.  But in the last year, She lost a very critical swimming competition because of a fever she had that day.  In China, if you can not win this competition, you will lose the unique opportunity to be a professional athlete. Her parents were disappointed.  They didn’t know what they should to do next, because their daughter hadn’t attended to a normal primary school a single day for the past 6 years.  How would she catch up with other students? But my cousin didn’t fear at all.  She skipped the primary school and went directly go to middle school.

She was excellent at middle school beyond everyone’s expectation.  At the time, her parents had gotten divorced and then had remarried with different people separately. Neither of them wanted to take care of my cousin.  They didn’t want to pay the school fee for my cousin. Finally, my cousin was adopted by her grandmother. 6 years later, she attended to one of the best universities in China.  Once she went to university, she didn’t ask for one buck from her grandmother.  She made money by giving tuition (I'm not clear about this.). After she graduated from the university, she won a scholarship to study at a masters program in the USA. That’s the beginning of the story.

I don’t want to sell a success story, I just want to say I have learnt a lot from my cousin. If you want to start a new life, you just keep going, and never look back.

- Cool.  Inspirational story.  Just a few verb tense and other minor corrections.