Beach by Oath

 Beach

(bench, coconut tree, sand, cottage, stone, wind, sand, ball, long, wet)

The train left the station early morning while the rain is pouring hard. Linda is sitting next to the window and enjoy scenic along the way. She is going home for the first time after moved to a big city for work.  She is originally from the wealthy family who own a private island. After finished school, she left home to continue higher education in the big city. Luckily, she did not by her own but her aunt was preparing everything to support. Her mother's family are in the city but moved to the island after married with her father. Everyone agreed to let her learns and gains experience before taking care of family business.

The train stops at the first station for ten minutes. Linda looks at people walk back and forth. Some drags the food cart and yell for attention to get the sale. Her eyes stop at the wooden bench in front of the ticket booth. There is a familiar face looks to her direction. It is Joy, her friend from the university. Linda waves the hand and Joy runs to her. They talk for awhile before the train moves away.

The train stops at the destination in the next morning. Linda steps down the ground and looks around. She is expecting to meet someone. Suddenly, a small red ball hits her feet in behind. Linda turns around immediately and the little girl gives her a big hug. It is her niece. Linda asks, if she comes with her mother but an old man walks to them before her niece answers. Linda 's father.

From the train station takes about half an hour to get to the private pier. Her father drives the boat takes them to their island.

Linda's father owns a big coconut tree farm on the island and supplies to the factories who produce coconut milk. Besides, he sets up a seafood restaurant for Linda's mother a year ago and business goes well. The restaurant in the coconut tree farm on the private island. People only get here by boat and must have reservation only. 

Linda is very cheerful to come home and see everything always welcome. There are ten new cottages near the shore. Father and mother expanded the business to get more visitors after many guests requested to stay over night. Linda is pleasant to walk on the wet sand in the cool breeze. She let her long hair down and let it blows with the wind. She would stay here and takes happiness with full energy on the weekend before goes back to work in the city.

Accident by Pailin

 Oily is an elderly who lives with her husband in the US countryside. She is an intelligent granny and does the housework all the time as usual. Last week, she found a bird nest in the bamboo bush near the grape yard while she walked around the house. She asked her husband to check on the nest. He claimed on a ladder and saw three baby birds in the nest. The next following day, it was a heavy rain at her house that worried her about the baby birds. She wore the boots to avoid slippery when walked on the wet ground and checked on the baby birds if they were ok. Her husband ran fast to see her because he heard something, "Clank...Clank" behind the house and he saw his wife was fallen down on the ground. The land was shaking because of the water horse was on her way to the yard. She said, "I am alright" however, her husband did not trust. He looked over her body to ensure that she was not hurt.

Beach by Pailin

 The sweet song, "Huahin" from the radio is waking Oily up. She loves this song very much that Suthep Wongkhamhaeng sang it long time ago. 

Huahin is a very famous and widely known beach over the world. It is a very gorgeous beach. There is pretty white, clean sand many tiny stones. There were many foreigners visited Thailand and fell in love the place. Some of them settled down there.

Oily had visited Huahin a few times. She met a man from a dating site and spent time together at Huahin. It was a wonderful time six years ago that was her magnificent time with him. They walked along the seashore and sat under the coconut tree, also watched the children played the ball while the gentle breeze calmly all day. They stayed in a cottage at an old style resort. The cottage was very close to the sea that they could hear the sound of the wave. In the morning, they held hands and walked along the shore where shallow water enough to wet their feet. Those were her pleasant memories whenever she hears Huahin song.

Mrs. Apple : Pailin

 Mrs. Apple

Apple is an elderly old-school lady who loves to do old things.  For example, she enjoys using a pencil instead of using a pen.   She believes in her thought. However, she considers a new idea of looking for an old man to be her life partner together online.  Then, she starts using a dating site to find the love one.  She acknowledges the  qualification to join the dating site but her weakness is communication in other language. She finds a good English teacher and starts learning with him.   

Her goal is having a chance to travel oversea to see civilization countries and would be a citizenship in those countries.

She dreams to have an excellent and joyful life in the cultivation lands.

*cultivation synonym : civilization

A boy with a bear-cup : Pailin

 

A boy with a bear-cup

There was a small family living in the wood. There were colorful flowers beside the house and butterflies and bees roaming around. The deer and bears came to this field sometimes. A boy was the youngest one in the family. He loved to go to sit at the creek behind the house. One day, he went behind the house again , he sat on the rock near the creek and threw small rocks into the water and sang rabbit song that his mom sang to him while he was a younger boy. Suddenly, he saw a bear-cup walking toward him. A bear-cup was very hungry and made a sound like a baby bea…bea….It was so skinny. He was so excited and so sad to see him hungry. Then, he gave a piece of cookies to it and gentle put his hand on a cup’s head. While he enjoyed feeding and playing with the bear-cup ,he saw a buck (male-deer) and doe (female-deer) jumped up to the creek and ran away to the deep wood. His father came from other side of the creek hold an archery in his hand. The boy guessed that his father would went hunting in the wood. His father interrupted him and told him to stop feeding and playing because the bear-mother might come to get her cup and might hurt him. He was not happy but kept him safe and he followed his father back home.

I just noticed later and would like to leave it as cross the line over the word "would"...* would go not would went and in the story just the word "went"

Mali and family : Park, bicycle, busy city

 Mali and family

Nowadays, people are living in rush and always competing to each other and time. Everyone tries to live well but not all happy.

Mali, 17 years old girl lives in a medium size house in a countryside, 2 hours away from the city. She has 3 brothers 15, 14 , 11  and 1 sister 10 years old. She is the biggest kid whom parents trusted to manage the house and taking care of younger kids when they go to work in the city.  Her parents own a bakery shop in the city. Mali and her siblings  work at the shop on weekends. They enjoy and fun with work, especially when parents give them money for what they have done each time.

Every Fridays night, Mali and younger kids will prepare everything ready for stay over at the family store in the city. They must finish their homework as well because it is the family condition, if not then stay home is a punishment. The children always take responsibility to finish their homework and earn money from the bakery owner (their parents) with joy.

They leave home about 7am and get to the store an hour before open and stay an hour after store close at 8pm. for cleaning. The parents are the best baker in the city. There are three employees rotating weekly schedule, two employees stand by in the store and one delivery using a motor bike.  On weekend, younger kids work in the shop with parents and Mali does delivery job. It is very fun and exciting.

The bakery shop is located at the intersection where is super busy during rush hours as morning, noon and evening. The sounds from the car engines, the honk, the bicycle bell, construction sites and etc, all around the area but seem not bother people. Fortunately, there is a huge public park in the area, the lung of the city where always full of people at all time. They do activities all day long in groups or alone. There are many trees and shady, also  the grills provided for set up picnics and the boats for rent at the big pond. Besides, the fountain spot is popular as well where the food venders settled in a huge gazebo.

Mali enjoys working in the city but she prefers living at the countryside as they are, no traffic, no loud sounds, no pollution.

Childhood Memory

 Childhood Memory 

(about farm by Oath)

 Jonathan is on the train, traveling from Zurich to Lucerne Switzerland. It takes about 41 to 50 minutes. The spectacular scenic along the distance reminds him to his childhood. His parents lived in a small town in England where he was born and grew up. People there did farming and did not worry about money. They exchanged food by gathering their produces and store at the town cooperative. Everyone grew different fruits, vegetables, flowers and plants. Also, raised animals for milk, meat and eggs. Each family took enough for a day and never wasted crops. There were 30 cottages in the village with 200 population, 150 adults and 50 children.It was a huge windmill at the river that could see from far away.Every live in the village use the water from here. The water came from the mountains, even they believed the water was clean ,still always boiling before drinking. 
 

Smoke was coming from chimneys in the mornings and evenings ,the sign of cooking in process. There was a big barn near the raised area where animals feeding. There were piles of straw and hey around the barn. There was a tools storage next to the barn. It was a sharing center where villagers could use the farming tools . 

 Jonathan’s father was the community chef and his job was visiting every family and ensure that produces enough and ready for merchants to pick up every Thursday. They grew fruits such as apples, apricots, peaches , cherries , corn. There was a huge area next to the river where grew vegetables like kale, green onion, onion, potatoes, tomatoes, melons, squashes, peppers, chillies, limes, lemons and more. His mother was the leader of women feeding animals, milk cows, collected chickens and ducks eggs, taking care of horses, pigs, goats and sheep. The animals area was across the river. 

 Even though, the villagers do not need money for living but sometimes they had to spend money for clothing and consuming items which they did not construct in the community. 

 The train stops that brings Jonathan back to the real time. He gets off the train with a big smile.