June 29, 2013

My father decided to bring the family to Changhua County to visit one of his friends. On the way to Changhua County, I was asleep while dreaming about a beautiful city that will appear when I open my eyes at the destination. However, all I saw were a few small houses and endless fields of crops when I got off the car. Although many questions were still unanswered in my mind, I still followed my father and walked towards one of the small houses. My father’s friend came out and welcomed us. After a brief conversation in the house, he led us outside and showed us his farm. I was astonished by what I saw - a huge beautiful farm decorated with many diverse and colorful vegetables. There were tomatoes, cucumbers, papayas, dioscorea oppositas, pumpkins, watermelons, and even rice. The friend of my father told us many interesting facts about each type of vegetables he had on his farm. All grains of rice were white flowers before they were fertilized and became rice. In order to plant a dioscorea opposita, a farmer needs to dig a hole three meters deep. Unlike most plants, the male and female parts of papaya trees actually grow on two different trees. At last, my father’s friend brought us to the lychee yard. He allowed us to pick as many lychees as we wished. The pleasant smell of the lychee energized us. We ate many delicious and sweet lychee as we pulled branches and branches of lychee off the trees. I sat on a nearby rock and enjoyed my twentieth lychee.