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Tiantian Tang's One Day - She is in Urban Village

This city is my most familiar alien land. It is the third time that I visit this city, but it is the first time that I get to know it profoundly.

Today, our plan is to record one day of the housewife, Tiantian Tang, living in Meiyuan New Village.

 

Because she has to get up early to cook for her family in the morning, we arrived at the her house at about 6:30 a.m. and started shooting.

 

Tang’s home is not small, but the decoration is simple, and there are no other decorative items other than the necessary furniture for life. In addition, because the building where Tang lives is too close to the opposite one, her house does not get daylight most of the time, and the room is in a relatively depressed atmosphere.

 

At about 7:10, Tang finished cooking and waked others up. During eating breakfast, Tang carefully fed her son carefully to avoid him being burnt, and I was really impressed. Because the son is so young, Tang and her husband both still have to work, and they do not have much energy to take care of their son. Therefore, the son is sent to Maoming City for most of the time and takes care of  by his parents who live there. Only on weekends or holidays can the son be brought back to live with his parent together. Therefore, Tang and her husband cherish the time spent with their son. Today is the day to send the son away. Tang cared about the son when he was eating.

 

Today is Sunday. After sending off her son, Tang originally planned to take a rest at home, but a phone call from the company made her rush to work overtime. Unlike the appearance when sending her son, Tang carefully made up at home before leaving. Perhaps because the work place is in the center of Tianhe District, she does not want to be different from the female in the city center.

 

At 6:00 in the afternoon, Tang was coming back home after working overtime. When taking the bus, she couldn't help but take a nap for a while. After all, she would go back for cooking and housework. At around 7:15, the housewife went to the entrance of Meiyuan Xincun and bought some ingredients for cooking and other daily necessities today, because after entering the village, the number of shops there and the variety of goods would be very small, and it is difficult to meet daily needs. So every time Tang needs to buy something, she has to go out for a long time.

Dragging the tired pace, carrying many supplies, after walking a long distance, the housewife 

returned to the home in the deep area of the village, and we also ended today's shooting

 

In the follow-up interview with the housewife, I was deeply touched by one thing. After a busy day of work and housework, Tang still takes some time to read books about accounting everyday. Her current academic qualification is secondary schools, and she is now using her free time to get junior college degree. Although Tang’s living conditions are not very good, and the house she lives in is the deepest in the village, she has not lost her passion and hope for life and the future, and she is still trying her best to improve herself, hoping that she will move out here in the future and  have her own house. I sincerely wish her that she can achieve her goals in the future.

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