I grew up in a small village. I am the second child of the family, and my sister is the eldest. Our house is on the main street of the village so I always saw a lot of people on the streets There were farmers, fishermen, and a few merchants in the village. My sister and I used to play with the next-door children; their father is an elementary school teacher. Sometimes when we played together in the house we made so much noise that my mother wanted us to play outside, so we went to the seashore to look for crabs and clams, and pretty seashells, too. Also, we enjoyed running on the beach chasing each other. On breezy days we used to enjoy flying kites on the beach. When I look back on my early life in the village, I feel I had a happy childhood.

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我在一个小村庄长大。我是家庭的第二个孩子,我妹妹是老大。我们的房子在村里的主要街道上,所以我经常在街上看到很多人,村里有农民、渔夫和一些商人。我和妹妹过去常和隔壁的孩子们玩;他们的父亲是一名小学教师。有时候,当我们在房子里玩耍的时候,我们发出这么多噪音,以至于妈妈想让我们出去玩,所以我们去海边寻找螃蟹和蛤蜊,还有漂亮的贝壳。此外,我们喜欢在海滩上奔跑嬉戏。在微风的日子,我们习惯在海滩上放风筝。当我回顾我在乡村的早期生活时,我觉得我有一个快乐的童年。