What little time to remember

Chapter 1


It looks like when a guy becomes eighteen years old, did not bother with animals is not encouraging. For me too, it is a wonderful infinity.


I remember two years earlier, when a child classmates hung hí breeze: "The tao is eighteen year old" ... I envy a miserable happy with it. Despite the large like it, go to school later than two friends, three years, the honor is not nothing but a "strong points" to children should be distributed to her homeroom class president. But eighteen years of age is eight to ten years old, is still to the old stately, desirable and full confidentiality for bọn nhóc such as me. At that time, I was extremely bitter when you realize that strives to be signed two years will be more like it.
Then mải education, mai fun, take the hope I forget Beng stop your hangover. Use one, it's time to do or not, the age of eighteen he. It is to laugh with my teeth and light, a bright morning sun rose, and teeming with flavor.
Eighteen years, I have two huge fun, take two important steps in life: one step foot into the entrance of adults, and a preparation step foot into the entrance of the University.
The wide adult, children up to age of any shock to freedom, not one block or block ticket control. The entrance to university is not for everyone. Want to have to pass another test that!
I have no home university. Childhood I learned in school for a social, lazy days in school were parents took roi jejunum to attack the school. To secondary, to the school district. To level three, and, again the provincial capital. School courses on ten provinces only. I finished school computer class for ten to study the city. But I just finished school grade ten, eleven schools open class. I studied grade eleven, twelve grade school Now open. I learned all this school holidays Pallete to other schools but I have not really seen any cute school as my school is learning. Do the managing board should fear me sad end to open this class to other class I study.
But until the end of grade twelve I must retire from the provincial capital. At that time, I was at two levels from test to normal class, a rank usually secondary but also clearing the way enough for me to university.
Students odd central provinces like me, want the university to select two places: either the Hue, or in Saigon. I am confused that should not retrieving the outside lane or into the lane. Ba me this far, no comments about me. As military officers, he was out of the place to go other places, in the ten new illustrations crossing on family visits. At home only a few parent my child. My mother is concerned for life story housework indoors, where the story is pure three "advancement" of me.
I asked my mother asked back:
- So for the month of flowers go?
United is the month my friend led the class in the game.
- It for Hue! - I answered.
- Mobile Hue So he can learn to have em!
What type of mother I said, also want to hear, to listen and not do. The sentence means: "Depending eyebrow".
I leave the highway standing in the South looks North feedback. Finally, I decided to export to the south. Shelf, go to Saigon to know, I like the abdomen, Hue is also the one you have then?
Hue of my trip occurred five years ago. At that time I thirteen years old. It was such a fun trip and something started by a disaster neither. A lunch, eat sitting, saw two dogs won each song bones, roll bite as loud roar table, put my foot consecutive ... intervention. Bi to the ceremony, saw the rabbit foot, salaam and a swept tail divert lost. Now the Mi-say it is blood, I thought the local leg bone, an event that has four nhe, blood streaming.
Dog bites were thought normal, not to two days after the Mi-times the slaves that died naturally, effervescent snout. Crisis to my mother, think it was the Mi-wild, I started to inject drugs.
Wild dog's medication at the Pasteur Institute in Qui Nhon, or only in Hue. But in Qui Nhon, I do not have her child relatives. In comments, my three children intestine, the high medical officers, are closed in Hue. How do I follow her up the land line nerve, ventral to fear death thon rolls along.
Just out to where I was not breathing promptly rush to the hospital in the comments. The hospital that is how big, now I do not remember. Contrast, I remember forever, remember the old one needle to the wrong shots at the second skin my stomach medicine cloudy lens to bone pain. Every drug injection is complete, my abdomen to prominence with a local chicken eggs, along the way home from the hospital to get my hands removed forever.
Day in and day, over half consecutive months, to around nine o'clock in the morning I go to hospital injected drugs, was originally led me to comment in, later I go alone. His spare time during the day, I also follow comments in go elsewhere, but in my memory the sight of pale Hue small needle nose than the other lot. Anyhow I also come to Hue.
Saigon is the first time I just heard, only read in books, see the movies. In my imagination, Saigon as a certain country, wonderful and unfamiliar. Very rare in a country new to Saigon. When on, they tell strange stories hundred, the tennis great who sit around listening to the listening bu classic story. There are a half months to go, also have other voices heard. Instead of saying "heaven and earth ơi, calling them" anti Dec ơi, listening is either. They do not say "drink water too far" as before, but said "à ơi thirst too. In his son as thằng Bao Khang, take me to Saigon to visit the play, at the offer, it does not say "about" as always, but said "Welcome Thim Palace Six Disks" to stupid people making my mother a new feedback understand.
But usually the only Breeders Saigon from the constellation of dread with her neighbors about a week, with the voice returned to normal on the origin country ornamental me the same.
Of course I want to study in Saigon Tet on extra not to mother "the new disc" as type thằng Bao. At age eighteen, twenty pairs, the people who also want to major cities, but select urban civilization Assembly to expand knowledge and power to try life. Especially a guy like me odd provinces.
On my way up, beyond my mother and her little child I have a lot of her children first I found out they take bus station. If I have three houses, perhaps he will go with me to Saigon. But the three do not, I must go alone.
Apart from Italy and containers of clothing, books, I carry a pocket book to minister in everything that my mother put food, medicine and cake left. Several days earlier, in her comment for opening the road for my lack of courtesy I bring something, do as I was preparing to Robinson that desert island. Fruit cake I've eaten all kinds of food to take two or three days now, so that when I can only bring about one-third.
All this week, my mother has told me enough of detection, so that until now, when I was sitting in the car then, my mother still feel things are not promptly said. She stood beside the tank car, hand over the cell door market held my hand tightly, mouth constantly asked to repeat the question I was pleased.
Do not understand why I do not feel little. Maybe my mind to think tomorrow night life new and attractive waiting in front of me. Only when the car roll, over ngoanh see my mother and the children with her aunt and uncle after the dust khuất gradually blurred, I was crying or her.
                                                                                                  nguyen nhat anh