My family lived in the city after a long and busy month, my parents besides his drive me to a place of interest in the countryside to have fun. Excited. We plan the route.
Then on a November Saturday morning, my dad started his car and we joyfully set off before now we let the lawyers sitting and came to the mountains. There are few vehicles on the road and the trees on side were pretty. We feel so delighted.
After several hours, we drove onto a narrow road and a minute later we found a river not far away from the road. The beach was very wide, and we wanted to have a rest there for a while. So my dad turned our car and drove towards it. Soon we were driving on the sandy beach. Moments later, our car wheels were struggling in the increasingly soft sand. But my dad wanted to get close to the river.
Before he greeted it, our car had gone got stuck in the sand. My dad tried to turn around or move back, but the car didn’t move. We were worried trapped in the middle of nowhere. What was worse? It began raining and was cold. We got out of the car and try to push it but failed. After a couple of minutes, we were tried and our hair and coats were little weight, but the car only sank further into the sand.
We walked to the road wanting to stop the vehicle and let it help for our car out of the sand. Our coats. And here were waiter and waiter before the journey, we hadn’t prepared an umbrella or carried any food. Now we are hungry and cold standing in the rain after waiting for a long time, there wasn’t one vehicle passing.
Just when we were helpless, we saw a farmhouse not far away. Can they help us? I asked my dad was doubtful. Still we reached there and found it was a big family. They seemed cool but friendly. My dad told them our problem. And begged them to help us pull our car out.
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To our happiness, they nodded without thinking.
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They invited us to have a meal and offer to light a fire to dry our coats.
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Not too long ago, I was at the grocery store(杂货店), and an elderly man in front of me was using a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)card—what we used to call food stamps. The card reader kept rejecting his payment. He had apparently gone over his limit for the month. He was confused about how it had happened and more than a little distressed about the situation. While I was trying to decide if the man would be offended or grateful if I offered to step in and pay the difference(支付差额), the young man checking him out (who looked to still be in high school) said, “Sir, this happens all the time. It’s not a problem. I bet we can figure out a solution together.”
The line behind us was growing long, but the young man didn’t show an ounce of impatience or anger. He confirmed that the man was, indeed, over his limit for the month and found the amount of the overage. It turned out that he wasn’t over by much, so the checker helped the customer determine which two or three items that he could make do without until his account was replenished(重新装满). “You’ll definitely want to keep the milk and the butter and the eggs and the bread,” I remember him saying as he looked through the already bagged groceries. Then the clerk, who had clearly done this before, pulled out a jar of salsa, a bottle of juice and some crackers that he and his customer agreed could wait until the beginning of the new month. The young man assured his older customer, once again, that this was a common occurrence and not a problem at all. The man left with his dignity intact(完好无损)and, no doubt, with a renewed sense of loyalty to that grocery-store chain.
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When it was my turn, I told the young man that he had done an extraordinary job.
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When I got home, I sent an e-mail to the manager of the store.
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Josibelk Aponte considers herself lucky. Few people get to meet their guardian angels (守护天使).
Aponte has a special place in her heart for retired Hartford police officer Peter Getz, who stood with her as if she were his own child, as she graduated from Eastern Connecticut State University on Tuesday.
“There are only a few moments that are so important in life,” Aponte said. “I wanted to share my graduation with everyone who’s important to me, who has been there for me, and who helped me through tough times.”
Getz certainly fits that description: He saved Aponte on June 25, 2004, a day the 23-year-old describes as the “best and worst day” of her life.
“I almost died, but I was given a second chance at life,” she said. “And it was because of Peter and all the kind people who came to help that day. They were my heroes.”
A fire in the Aponte family’s apartment broke out as Josibelk, then 5 years old, was home with her uncle Jofrey. She tried, in vain, to wake up Jofrey. Then, darkness. Meanwhile, Getz, a policeman, got there in time to see a firefighter pull a small girl from the building. In his rush to get back inside to put out the flames, the firefighter threw Aponte into Getz’s arms.
Doctors hadn’t arrived yet. Aponte had nearly stopped breathing. Getz carried out CPR (心肺复苏术) in the police car as his partner sped toward Hartford Hospital. By the time Getz passed her off to the hospital staff of the emergency room, Aponte was breathing on her own.
Aponte woke up hours later, surrounded by her family. Getz went to see her several times before the girl fully recovered. Aponte said she still has the teddy bear that Getz gave her during her hospital stay.
As time passed, they lost touch with each other as Aponte’s family moved to Vernon.
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About two years ago, Aponte tried to contact Getz through social media.
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At the graduation ceremony, many people came to Getz and spoke highly of his bravery.
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The rain was sudden and heavy on a cold night over ten years ago. Moving all the way against the heavy rain, my bus could barely stick to its normal route and was forced to stop at the station due to flash flooding.
With still two kilometers to go, time ran against me picking up my then four-year-old daughter from her childcare center. What waited for me was knee high water. I had no choice but to struggle through in the pouring rain to buy a cheap plastic coat in the shopping mall for my daughter.
After taking off my jacket and putting it into my bag to keep dry, I pulled up my skirt and took off my shoes, starting to run. Although I was wet through when arriving at the daycare center, I felt lucky to be only a few minutes late. Now I had to fix another problem.
All means of getting home appeared impossible to me. There were no buses with the clock striking 6 pm. I had no money to pay for a taxi. As the sky turned darker and darker, it seemed that we could never manage to get home.
The only thing we could do was to stand outside the childcare center staring at the rain pouring down. There was no sign of stopping. Lost in my own thoughts, I just hardly noticed another parent pull up and race inside to collect his child ten minutes later. I did not recognize him and my thoughts turned back to my current situation.
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I was a single mother with no family in Australia and no close friends I could call.
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I was about to run, when a voice asked, “How far are you going?”
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The Bicycle
When I was nine I needed to earn some money, so I asked Mr. Miceli, the newspaper publisher in my Chicago neighbourhood, about an after-school paper route. He agreed only if I had a bicycle.
My dad bought me a used bike, but right after that he fell ill and couldn’t teach me to ride. Mr. Miceli, however, merely asked to see the bike. So I walked to his garage, showed it to him and got the job.
At first, I filled my delivery bag with rolled papers over the handlebars and walked my bike down the sidewalks. But pushing a bike with a load of papers was awkward; after a few days I borrowed Mom’s two-wheeled shopping cart.
It took me longer to make my deliveries by cart, but I didn’t mind. I sent each paper to its proper destination. In rain or snow, I put Dad’s old raincoat over the cart to keep the papers dry. I got to meet everyone in the neighborhood — working-class people of Italian, German or Polish origins who were invariably kind to me.
When Dad returned from the hospital, he was too weak to resume his original job. Now we needed every penny we could raise to pay bills, so we sold the bike. Mr. Miceli must have known I wasn’t using a bike, but he said nothing about it to me.
On the Thursday evening before Christmas, 1951, I rang my first customer’s doorbell. Even though the lights were on, nobody answered, so I went on to the next house. No answer, nor did anyone respond at the next family on my route, or the one after.
I was very worried; I had to pay for my papers every Friday. And while it was almost Christmas, I never thought that everyone would be out shopping. So I was very happy when, going up the walkway to Mr. Gordon’s house, I heard music and voices. I rang the bell.
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The door flew open, and Mr. Gordon dragged me inside.
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________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________“See you at Open House (学校开放日) tonight, Amy,” Evelyn shouted from the school bus window. “Don’t forget to ask your mom if I can come over tomorrow!” “OK!” I called back. I wished I could feel excited about my first Open House at my new school, but I was worried. What would other kids say when they found out my parents can’t hear?
And I wanted Evelyn to visit, but then she’d see how different my house was. My parents use a video phone so they can use sign language to communicate with callers. We also have a light on the wall that flashes when the phone or doorbell rings. Would Evelyn think my house was strange?
That night, Dad drove us to the brightly lit school. We stopped in front of the bulletin board in the hall. “Look at Amy’s picture!” Mom said, too loud! She does that when she’s excited, because she can’t hear herself. Some older kids turned to stare at us and I wanted to hide.
I led my family into my classroom and looked around. Evelyn was not there yet. Ms. Jennings walked over to us. I introduced her to my family and explained that my parents are deaf. “Oh,” she said. “Well, how do you say welcome in sign language?” “Like this.” I swept my open right hand in toward my body, palm up. She repeated the motion. “Thank you,” Mom said, smiling. “Nice to meet you.” Ms. Jennings looked surprised. “You speak very well,” she said. In sign language, I repeated what Ms. Jennings had said in case my parents hadn’t read her lips.
“Was it difficult teaching Amy to talk?” Ms. Jennings asked. “Not really,” Dad said in sign language, and I translated so Ms. Jennings understood. “She went to daycare with other hearing kids.”
Some of my classmates were watching us and whispering. Then I noticed Evelyn and her mom standing by the door. “Hi, Amy,” Evelyn waved to me and approached us. “I didn’t know your parents are deaf.”
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I couldn’t think of anything to give a response, feeling embarrassed.
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“My new neighbor with a fantastic garden uses sign language too.” Evelyn explained.
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“You’re fired!” Andrew Chilton wasn’t joking. At that moment, the high school junior wanted his personal care attendant, Christy Chachere, out of his life forever. Gone. He didn’t want her telling him, he didn’t need help using the computer, and he could write his own term papers. Enough already.
“You’re fired!” He said it again for extra emphasis. Christy didn’t flinch(畏缩). She needed this job. Huricane Katrina had destroyed her savings along with her house. But the retired PE teacher wasn’t frightened. “I’m a tough nut,” she says today. “You know, I’ve taught middle schoolers.” And Andrew’s outburst? It was music to her ears. Progress. She’d gotten through to him.
When Andrew was diagnosed with autism(自闭症), at age eight, people told his mom, Cindy, to “get him on the list” for an attendant to provide after-school care. Someone to drive him to places and see that he was safe. In New Orleans, Louisiana, the wait can be years; the need is much more than the supply. Cindy chose a program through Volunteers of America, a national faith-based organization.
Even so, it was eight years before they were matched with Christy. In the meantime, Andrew’s family did their best to shelter him from life’s hardships. “I worried about him,” Cindy says, “I tended to hover a lot.”
There was a lot to worry about. Doctors and school officials predicted that Andrew might not even graduate from high school. Other questions were approaching. Would he ever have a job? Live independently? Cindy would do anything for her son.
Christy saw the problem right away. “Andrew wouldn’t take a step without his mother’s permission,” she remembers. “You have to let him fail,” she told the family, “It’s the only way he’s going to learn. To be able to do things on his own.”
No longer would Cindy write Andrew’s papers for him. His younger brother wouldn’t help him navigate the computer. Christy wouldn’t be helping him with homework either. It was a little scary to step back. Andrew complained. Loudly at times.
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But then things began to change.
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With the company of Christy for six years, Andrew has been developing well.
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