І wake up at six in the morning. Dad is putting the cows and sheep onto the 1 . Mom packs my2 milk food and dried meat. Soon, we will 3 driving to another pasture (场) . We won't 4 to take our yurt (毡房) with us!
My family 5 like this four times every year. It's a tradition (传统) of Kazak (萨克) people in Altay (阿勒泰) , Xinjiang. We have 6 100 sheep and 40 cows. We move to different places as the 7 change. So, our animals can always have fresh 8 to eat.
Kazak people have been 9 this way for thousands of years. In the past, people had to 10 camels (骆驼), and the sheep and cows had to 11 . It took about 10 days to get from one place to 12 . If it rained or snowed, traveling was even 13 . Luckily, now we have trucks. It only takes us five hours on the road!
A Kazak poet (诗人) once 14 that Kazak people have traveled the most roads in the world, and we move the most often. As we move from place to place, our lives keep 15 better and better.
