Disaster

In recent days, when I open some Chinese wed sides, most of their head lines are talking about the heavy storm in China. It is the most terrible weather in the last 10 years. Many provinces have heavy snow and low temperature. Even in my hometown, my grandparents told me that this winter is the coldest winter in last 12 years. The worse thing is that the bad weather comes at the time that millions of migrant workers are going home for the Chinese New Year. The storm destroyed the rail power system. Trains have been paralyzed because of the cripple power line. Almost 8 millions migrant workers have stayed at the Guangzhou provincial train station for over one week. They come from different provinces to work in Guangdong province. Spring Festival is their only chance to bake home and see their families. Some of them hadn’t back home for several years. Now, they all are obstructed by the terrible weather. I can feel how anxious and despondent they are. I used to work in a fabric factory. There are many migrant workers in the factory and I worked with them for three months. This experience totally changed my opinion to migrant workers. Most of them are hard working and very kind. They leave their home town to search better life and they always miss their family. Most of them have the same aim that earn enough money, and then back to their hometown to do some small business or get marry. Their life is tough, but their smiles always emerge in my eyes. I finally understand how optimistic they are because I am now study along in another country and I hardly find any smile like this in my past 5 months. Now, may be one of my friends is staying in the train station and look for the “luck train” to take him back home. Sincerely hope the bad weather will end soon and all of the workers can back home and have a nice new year with their family.