After the death of his 21-year-old American girlfriend after the new crown, Chen Zhou: Studying in the United States is the most shameful decision
Narrator: Chen Zhou
Finishing: Mr. Xiao Han
My name is Chen Zhou, 23 years old this year, born in Guangxi, my parents are doing small business, when I was a child, my family was very average, until seven or eight years ago, after my parents did business, they gradually got better. As the only child in the family, I have been pampered since I was a child, but I am not the kind of pampered child, probably because of the poor family conditions, and I have studied very hard since I was a child.
Since the age of 4, I have lived with my grandparents, my parents went to Guangzhou to work, only come back once a year, whenever it is almost the New Year, I look forward to my parents coming home, because at that time there are not only new clothes, but also a lot of delicious food, children are hungry, I am no exception.
Most of the time, I was alone, and I couldn't play with the children in the village, because I was not good at talking, so I was gradually isolated.
And my best playmate is a dirt dog raised by my grandfather, he is very smart, seems to be able to sense my emotions, sometimes miss my parents, the puppy will snuggle up next to me, and then a silent daze.
When I got to junior high school, I went to boarding school, my grandfather had inconvenient legs and feet, so every time I went to school, I rode my bike to the town 6 kilometers away to study, and at that time, my life began to hang on, and my academic performance ranked among the best in the school, not only by the love of my classmates, but also by the praise of the teachers.
And every time my parents called, it always made me feel very uncomfortable, because other students had parents attending the parent-teacher conference, and I didn't have anyone to attend every time, fortunately, the teacher knew the situation in my family, and didn't say much. In high school, my parents returned to Yulin City, and the whole family could finally get along day and night.
My dream at that time was to study abroad, I did not think about studying abroad, but my parents were already in business at that time, thinking that I had good academic performance, and I could go abroad to refine in the future, and then come back to find a high-paying job, so that I could honor my ancestors, and they also had face.
It seems that my life is to make my family happy, after the college entrance examination, I was admitted to the 985 college with excellent results, but under the supervision of my parents, I still went to the United States to study. Life is not familiar, and there is some rejection in the heart. I came to the United States alone, with no friends, no relatives, and simply learning knowledge.
But not long after I arrived in the United States, I met a girl, she was American, saw that I was very introverted, and always accompanied me, handed me a lot of American ways of life, and later we became lovers.
The beauty didn't last long, in 2019, my girlfriend dropped out of school to work at home as a restaurant waitress, but the two of us also started a long-distance relationship, I studied in California, and she was in Minnesota, very far away, but we still kept seeing each other once a month.
And in 2020, the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, for each other's safety, had to stop seeing each other, not long after, the girlfriend was infected with the new crown, at that time I was very anxious, she was also very panicked, fortunately, the first time to get the new crown in more than a month after recovery, I thought fate would take care of this kind girl.
But in April 2021, she was infected with the new crown again, and this time, she was unfortunate, abandoned by her family, and I couldn't do anything about it, she wrote me a letter at the end, and she never heard from her. It wasn't until May 29, a little over a month later, that her mother called me and said, "Chen, Joe passed away because of a second covid-19 infection." ”
At that moment, my tears flowed, the most worried thing happened, the situation in California was more dangerous, my parents would call me five or six video calls a day, I knew how to protect myself, but my girlfriend lost her life.
In the face of the United States' epidemic prevention ability, very disappointed, to tell the truth, come to the United States to study, feel shameful, because did not learn anything, just feel their indifference, ruthless, in these two years or so, in addition to the Chinese friends every three forks in the phone greetings, no one else cares about your safety.
A good classmate of mine, who studied at Fudan University, told me how good the level of academic research in the mainland was, and I only went to a very ordinary school, not Harvard University.
Now I just want to go back to my country and go back to my parents.