saturday nov. 15, 2003 cloudy
my teacher gave me an assignment "experience life" last week. i had been thinking how to finish it because i had never done any thing by myself before.
mother was out today. it was a good chance to complete the assignment. seeing the barrel was empty, i decided to fetch water from the well.
i took the empty barrel and went towards the well outside the yard. it snowed yesterday, so the alley was very slippery. a layer of thickice was frozen on the platform of the well. i was frightened by the sight, but i gathered my courage to walk towards it. i stepped on the platform carefully. after standing steadily and squatting down slowly, i hooked the barrel at the end of the rope and