A song reminds me about an old friend of mine when I was a little girl. I live in Ho Chi Minh city, the biggest city of Vietnam, but my homeland is Bac Ninh, a rural land. 9 years ago, I came there for the first time, and I felt everything so strange from the architecture to the way of life. But I liked that differences: the smell of the rice-field, smoke from the cooking fire made my eyes burn, the large gardens with so many kinds of fruit, the narrow sinuous roads...and in that occasion, I knew her, a girl has a long hair and warm eyes.
Every morning, she came to my grandmom's house to wake me up and leaded me the market. That was a small market but sold everything. She always laughed at me because there were many things I didn't know but I knew she just joked...
And 3 months of my summer holiday were over, I had to come back to the city.
I still remember that day, a gloomy day, fog wrapped everywhere, I was preparing to go to the train bus, just in more 5 minutes, I would go...But she didn't come...
Now, everything changes, my rural homeland becomes a city, no rice-field...The images of the past are gone, and she're gone too, but her images can't fade from my memory.
Until now, I still don't know what happened to her that day...
Somewhere, the words of the song "When you're gone" resounds..." when you're gone, the pieces of my heart are missing you..."
Saturday, July 21, 2007
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