Mum My mother is about 68 years old, and she is not in good health. She has some sort of disease, like headache, inexplicable pain, and so on. When I was a little kid, I did not know how hard she worked. Now when I look back, I know she is a hardworking and selfless woman.  At that time, there were no appliances, she had to do everything by hand, just backbreaking work from sun up to sundown. It seemed she never had a chance to take a break. I still remembered When it was sunny, she worked in the field, and when it rained, she made shoes for us. She never complained, at the same time, she never said:" I love you." I know whatever she felt, it's so far below the surface. My eldest sister, unfortunately, passed away seven years ago. She took care of me when she was about five years old. She learned how to cook when she was about seven years old. She cooked for the family, did some cleaning. She is a capable woman. After she married, her apartment was always clean, their clothes always freshly pressed, and sounded a wonderful cook. She seldom complained. She had made countless sacrifices to take care of her own family. Now I am a mother. I started thinking about the role of a woman. My mother, my sister, have made too many sacrifices for their family. Why does this society want women to make sacrifices and take it for granted? Of course, the proportion of Chinese men doing housework is increasing, but it is far from enough. When they get home from work on time, they think they are great husbands. When I was having dinner in a restaurant that night, I looked around and sadly found that almost all the customers were men, while women were mostly with their boyfriends. Where are the moms? They are busy taking care of the children at home. I expect women to think more about themselves because we are also flesh and blood.

Mum My mother is about 68 years old, and she is not in good health. She has some sort of disease, like headache, inexplicable pain, and so on. When I was a little kid, I did not know how hard she worked. Now when I look back, I know she is a hardworking and selfless woman.  At that time, there were no appliances, she had to do everything by hand, just backbreaking work from sun up to sundown. It seemed she never had a chance to take a break. I still remembered When it was sunny, she worked in the field, and when it rained, she made shoes for us. She never complained, at the same time, she never said:" I love you." I know whatever she felt, it's so far below the surface. My eldest sister, unfortunately, passed away seven years ago. She took care of me when she was about five years old. She learned how to cook when she was about seven years old. She cooked for the family, did some cleaning. She is a capable woman. After she married, her apartment was always clean, their clothes always freshly pressed, and sounded a wonderful cook. She seldom complained. She had made countless sacrifices to take care of her own family. Now I am a mother. I started thinking about the role of a woman. My mother, my sister, have made too many sacrifices for their family. Why does this society want women to make sacrifices and take it for granted? Of course, the proportion of Chinese men doing housework is increasing, but it is far from enough. When they get home from work on time, they think they are great husbands. When I was having dinner in a restaurant that night, I looked around and sadly found that almost all the customers were men, while women were mostly with their boyfriends. Where are the moms? They are busy taking care of the children at home. I expect women to think more about themselves because we are also flesh and blood.

The Blooming roses The rainy season finally passed, and the sun began to shine on the earth. Every morning I get up and draw back the curtains, then I step into my little garden. It is just a small balcony，but now, it is not a balcony, it is a small garden. In the past two months, I am a little crazy. I keep buying all kinds of roses and other flowers on taobao.com. In the beginning, some roses were root without any leaves and some roses were seedlings. I plant them and water them, every morning and every night I go to see them. I wait for the roses to bloom, and finally, one rose bloomed, I was so excited. It was so beautiful and I smell the fragrance of rose, it was so familiar. When I was a kid, I planted flowers all around my countryside home. I had grown grapes, pomegranates, moss rose, roses and so on. It was really unforgettable time. Now, my little garden is full of roses, it makes it so special. It is the time I have wasted for my roses that it makes my roses so important.

No 61 Online Learning Last year, I wrote an essay about online learning, at that time I did not realize one day it would come to true. Now, every student has to take online lessons. I can tell you, it has no effect, because of almost all Chinese students rush into the internet on 8:30 am, so most of the time we can not listen to the teacher. And my son's English teacher can not come back to China, her network is worse. Sometimes she is online, then one minute later, she is offline. I think these kinds of online classes are a waste of time. So sometimes we just keep logging in, then I ask my son to stay away from the computer. I hope the coronavirus epidemic will end soon, then the children can go to school, I can go outside. This year I really want to travel around in Xinjiang. I am looking forward to this trip. And another thing is that I had planted nine roses, they are purple, yellow , white and pink rose. Every morning I will go to see them, that is, I expect the roses to sprout soon.

No 59 Time passes quickly The last time I wrote an essay on italki was three months ago. Time passes so quickly. Many things had happened. The first one is I received an admission letter from Beijing Foreign Studies University, which means I will study for a master's degree in the next two years. I do not need to go to Beijing, and I study these courses online. I have learned these courses for almost two months, how to say, I feel so disappointed. And find many courses are useless and so boring. I really regret paying for the money, and the money is not refundable. So I decide to go on. The second one is I go hiking with my son almost every weekend and we make many new friends. We hiked 16km the day before yesterday. We were a little tired but we were happy. It's a pity, my son's tennis coach is busy these days, I hope my son can join the tennis team soon. Now I am writing this down, I have a lot of literature to read, and I have homework to do, and I am a little crazy.

No 58 My classmates My classmate came to Shenzhen this Friday, she often came to Shenzhen for a business trip. We also met from time to time. So this time, I asked her to have dinner together. When she arrived, wow, she was so thin. She told me that she ate a lot in the morning and did not eat rice at lunch, just took some oatmeal. That's the secret of her being so thin. I kept running these days, but I felt more hungry than before. When I was hungry I took some milk or some fruit. Though I am not fat, I still hope to lose five kilograms. That will make me younger. I will go to Shanghai next Wednesday, I will take my laptop with me. I will share the days in Shanghai. And I will run and run, I am happy when I am running.

No 57 Run in the rain Although the weather forecast said there was a typhoon, I still went outside and ran. At first, it rained slightly. I kept running. When I ran to 4km, it rained heavily. My aim was 6km. So I decided to go on. Running in the rain was a totally different feeling, the rain hit on my face, the wind was getting stronger and stronger. It was so cool. Soon I was wet through. But I felt comfortable. When I ran to 6km, I stood in the rain, I looked at the sky, the cloud flew fast. I remembered that my son and I jumped in the heavy rain five years ago. He was so happy, I took some pictures for him. Different weather gives us a different feeling, that's why I like nature. Whether it is sunny or not, I will keep on running.