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People always don’t feel how far the time flies. It has been 13 years since I left my hometown where I was born. Searching my memories, I miss the pure white snow, the freezing air and the people who lived with me during my childhood. My hometown is located in Jidong county near the most northeast border between China and Russia.My family,my many relatives’family and my grandparents used to lived there .Because of the geographical location, it is very cold in my town with heavy snow when winter comes. Even though the temperature is under -30 ℃ sometimes, I still loved spending my whole winter vacation there. You maybe never imagine the feeling that wearing the thickest clothes, look like a bear, one person walked alone the road covered the white snow and heart “zhizhi” the voice came out when I stepped on the snow. I could not keep balance well when I walked on the snow, because the snow was so thick. I still remember the cool feeling when I breathed freezing air, it made me be clear-headed . There is a river called MuLing nearby the village which my grandparents lived in. Every spring festival(the most important festival in China) my parents took me to my grandparents’ house, so did my cousins’ families.The river was frozen in winter ,so my cousin sister and I played one game we called “pa li” like sled.I sat on a wooden car with two steel plates on the bottom ,then my cousin sister held the rope and pulled the wooden car. She ran on the ice river very fast, my car did it also. Sometimes we fell down the ice ground, we stood up and continued to play. I didn’t fell any pain. Now, I think the happiness may cover pain sometimes. After playing, we went home. Elders had done foods and waited for us. When the big dinner was done , I begged my grandfather took me to look the train. There was a railway on the edge of the village. Looking at the train ,grandfather told me what a happiness I had because those people were still on the train at this

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