Jennie Huynh
My Countryside
Let me tell you about my countryside. Even though I’ve been to a lot of
places, with me, the most beautiful place in my heart is my hometown of
KrongBong . If you could spend just a day there, you would never regret it. In
the morning, you can hear the sound of the birds waking up after a long night,
singing a welcome song to the morning. A chorus of insects with crickets, frogs,
and cicadae … plays the country-music song in the evening. You can also hear
the sound from a little funny wind that goes through the forest, the bamboo, and
it will bring you a comfortable feeling. If you go to one of the famous waterfall
there, which is named Krong Kmar (it means father river), you can know how
boisterous the sound is, and relish the attractive and impressive scenes. The
sound of mother sings a lullaby, sound of flutes, sound of fatherland. Look
around all the town from the highest mountain’s peak- Chu Jang Sin, what you
can see are the beautiful views of waterfall, trees, rocks, and far away, there are
some small houses with grey smoke going up from chimneys. You can also
watch people go back and forth on the road to town’s center, children go to
school, and I’ll show you my school, either ancient or modern. Some girl-students
are going home after school with bright smiles and very pretty in Ao Dai, which
known traditional dress of Vietnamese women. My countryside doesn’t have an
ocean, but we have the rice-sea. There are large fields with green color of the
paddies, wind blows across to make it like a green pretty beach. Pick some ripe
fruits from back yard, and you may enjoy them right away. They’re so delicious
and sweet. Wine drunk out of a jar through pipes (Vietnamese calls Rượu Cần )
is a special wine of highlanders such as Krongbong. It’s made from just wild
leaves, cassava roots and rice but people make a really strange smell and taste
for this wine so you never could forget it. I remember the senses when I went on
the dam without shoes, slept under branches in my grandma’s back yard, rode
a bike cutting cross the field, felt how the wind touched my face, blew up my hair
and laughed with me … When you enjoy nature, come back to normal things, it
seems to be airy and comfortable strangely. There are so many things to talk
about my countryside, but let me keep it secret, so I can show you on the day
you come there.