I have never been to Africa, but I am familiar with the taste of poverty and the taste of warmth

Ola 2022-03-23 09:03:03

In the future, when I mention Malawi, I will think of the inspirational boy named Kankuamba. When watching a movie, I was surprised at the backwardness of the African land, but when I think about it carefully, why wasn't my childhood like that? The small mountain village didn't have electricity until I was in fourth grade, which was 1994, the end of the 20th century. Before that, the lighting tools in mountain villages were kerosene lamps, the kind that smoked the whole house into darkness. There is a family in the village who is very hard-working and capable. He bought a generator with his own efforts. His family lives on the hillside opposite my house, and the traffic is extremely inconvenient. Therefore, I admire that family very much. After the electricity was turned on in the village, I gradually bought TV sets, black and white ones, the ones that received antennas on a pole stand, and I could only receive two poor TV sets, the Central One and Shaanxi TV. Sometimes the weather is bad, and the TV is full of snow, sizzling, so one person turns the antenna patiently outside the house, and one person slowly directs it inside the house, turn it again, turn it again, um, okay, oops, it doesn't work Yes, keep going! Okay, don't loose your hands, that's it! Hold on! The most impressive thing is that on the weekend, I watched Tyson's boxing match with my dad. The fight was hot on TV. Outside the TV, I also clenched my fists and took advantage of the situation. At that time, the football league was still in the A, A, B, and B era. Shaanxi was still called Guoli at that time, and there would be broadcasts of football games every weekend. I still remember that the commentator at that time was called Jiang Xiaojing, who was also the announcer who hosted "Five Rings Short Wave". Football matches don’t have the kind of wind and lightning in the championship match. Sometimes a ball comes down, and the two sides have no fighting spirit, and the score is 0-0, so I often see me drowsy and yawning. The happiest thing is to watch the series, and it takes ten days and a half months or even longer to catch up. At that time, the number of interstitial advertisements became more and more long, which provoked the patience of the audience a little bit. Children hate those lengthy advertisements the most, swearing and taking the time to go to the toilet while swearing.

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  • Priest: By the fruit shall we know the tree.