难以忘怀的经历(an unforgettable experience)
      when i was a little girl， in the summer vacation in 1976， i went to my mother's hometown ， tangshan.
      after i got there， at first i stayed at my uncle's home . i was very happy in my uncle's home because my uncle had a daughter who is older than i. she often took me to visit some places. we spent ten days happily. i remember just on the tenth day there was a big earthquake. it happened about three o'clock in the morning when i was dreaming. i woke up to find myself under a heap of rocks . i couldn't move. i didn't， in fact ， know anything about what was happening until my uncle saved me from the rubble。
      during the earthquake most of the houses fell down. we set up many tents to live in and received a lot of food from every city in our country. they helped us to tide over those hard days. i think if we hadn't lived in new china we couldn't have survived the big earthquake. i am very lucky and so are my uncle's family