One day, we had a family dinner. While the adults were busy with their serious talk outside, I was left alone in the 1 to help my grandmother wash dishes.2 my grandmother would tell me stories about her childhood.
Born just before WWI, my grandmother3 an entirely different childhood lifestyle from mine. She did not have a chance to go to4 . Like in typical families, where boys were5 much more than girls, my grandma had to stay at home to do6 . The only opportunity(机会)she could seize to7 was when her brother was having Chinese8 with the family tutor. She would sit quietly at the far end of the long dinner table, listening9 . This training taught her to read and write her Chinese upside down一 a skill that has turned out to be quite10 ，especially whenever we share the newspaper. On most weekends, my grandmother, a young girl then，and her brother would go to the11 . There, they would walk through deep water, sit down cross-legged underwater and hold their 12 while they watched all action going on around them. This is something I13 — her ability to open her14 underwater and still sit comfortably on the seabed.
My childhood is quite15 compared with hers. I am16 that I did not need to17 the hardships like she did. I've never faced the problem of18 . I guess our different childhood background is what makes my grandmother such an amazing person to19 to: her stories always make my history textbooks20 .
