Father's Day @ 冷言冷語

※Happy Father's Day!

Yesterday was Father’s Day. Teacher talked to us about his father, and that’s very different from Taiwanese normal fathers. When he was 16 years old, his father started to charge to him if he lived in home. So he was driven to earn money for himself. Also, his father showed off this method to other relative, and said “Your children usually cost money, but my child can earn for me. ”. Although his father treated him not very well, but there were some reasons. His father always ruled him, like the time of getting home and whether to go to friend’s house or not, but teacher always refused and lied. Maybe his father asks him to get home at 11 o’clock, and he will say ok but really gets home at 12 or 1 o’clock.

Teacher seldom talked to his father, only once when he was 22 or 23 years old. Teacher just broke up with girlfriend, and very sad. His father knew that and wanted to talk with him. It sounds like want to cheer him up, but his father said ”Why the girl likes you? Why she wants to date with you? ”. Thence, he never talks to his father. Even the Christmas day, he still wasn’t back to have a reunion.

Three years ago, teacher tried to fix the relation with his father. After, he can converse with him in three topics. When everybody heard the first topic, all burst into a laugh. It’s weather! Second topic is sport, his father like to watch NBA and MLB games and news, so teacher can see something about it on internet and they can talk about. Third topic is family, just like us, we all care family.

Finally, teacher said that his father was a good father, although he was strict.

I’m glad of my father treating me very nice, and we had a cake yesterday afternoon. If one day I’m a father, I will know the difficult of being a father.

Key words:
reunion [ri'junjən] n. 團圓, 重聚; 再聯合
burst [bɝst] n. 破裂, 爆發, 突發v. 爆炸; 沖, 闖; 破裂; 突然出現; 使爆炸; 突然打開; 使破裂; 沖出