The smells from the cars and garbage begins to reach Mai’s nose as she makes her way to work. With all the skyscrapers towering over her little body, Mai was feeling a little bit claustrophobic, struggling for some fresh air. The city is always crowded with people, cars, trucks and buses. “Watch where you’re going!” a man yelled as he bumped into Mai on the crowded sidewalk. “By this rate, I’ll be late to work. I might as well take a taxi” she thought to herself. Shuffling through the crowd, Mai finally reaches the street where she calls for a taxi. As the taxi approaches her and came to a sudden halt, she hurriedly got into the taxi. “405 East, 42nd Street, please” she tells the cab driver. As the driver began to drive, Mai finally looks up
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She knew that she hasn’t been running for too long because she can still see the morning dew on the patches of grass that surrounds the rice plots. Her skirt and hair blowing in the wind. The rice stalks are as tall as her; she has to hop to catch a glimpse of the houses/mountains/lightposts beyond the patties to orient herself. The grasshoppers are teasing her, she is chasing them as fast as she can, but as fast as she goes, they slip out of her hands and get lost in the rice fields. “Stay still Mr. Grasshopper,” Mai pleads as another grasshopper slips out of her …show more content…
Her grandma expected her to be at her Aunt Patty’s house by 2:30pm for the Christmas dinner. She is rummaging through a pile of gift wrap paper, trying to find the nicest one to use to wrap the 7 gifts boxes that she has for her family. She was excited to get the gifts for her family, but as she is wrapping them, she notices herself getting impatient and wonders what Uncle Bill is getting everyone. She wonders to herself, “will they like his gifts more? Should I have spent more on the gifts? Will they be enough?” Every year these questions comes to mind. “The family already has so much, what more do they need?” she thought. Her thoughts overwhelms her and she fights the urge to call in
She knew that she hasn’t been running for too long because she can still see the morning dew on the patches of grass that surrounds the rice plots. Her skirt and hair blowing in the wind. The rice stalks are as tall as her; she has to hop to catch a glimpse of the houses/mountains/lightposts beyond the patties to orient herself. The grasshoppers are teasing her, she is chasing them as fast as she can, but as fast as she goes, they slip out of her hands and get lost in the rice fields. “Stay still Mr. Grasshopper,” Mai pleads as another grasshopper slips out of her …show more content…
Her grandma expected her to be at her Aunt Patty’s house by 2:30pm for the Christmas dinner. She is rummaging through a pile of gift wrap paper, trying to find the nicest one to use to wrap the 7 gifts boxes that she has for her family. She was excited to get the gifts for her family, but as she is wrapping them, she notices herself getting impatient and wonders what Uncle Bill is getting everyone. She wonders to herself, “will they like his gifts more? Should I have spent more on the gifts? Will they be enough?” Every year these questions comes to mind. “The family already has so much, what more do they need?” she thought. Her thoughts overwhelms her and she fights the urge to call in