At the end of May, when the royal poinciana flowers bloom, schools hold their closing ceremonies. Many schools plant royal poinciana flowers, the flowers bloom red, and the female students wear white ao dai, the male students white shirts and blue pants, sitting in the school yard on the last day of the school year, there is a feeling of emotion.
My daughter in Hanoi sent me a photo of her grandchild graduating from 5th grade. The school she attends is an international school, so the ceremony was quite thoughtful. The school let the students wear uniforms to graduate, gave them graduation certificates, and sang a farewell song together. Looking at the photo of her graduating from school brings me joy, because those moments are the mark of my school years, to be remembered later.
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To remember in the future, when we finished grade 12, there was no graduation ceremony like now. It was just the last school reunion, the last class reunion, then we rushed to study for the exam to get the baccalaureate degree. The current generation of students is more mature than their grandparents and parents, the graduation ceremony is beautiful and memorable. There is the scene of signing each other's names on the white school uniform, that uniform when we grow up, looking at each signature with faded ink is a memory that comes back.
This season, it was only 5 o'clock when the sky was already bright. Sleep seemed to follow the sunlight of the day, because the light from the glass brick on the wall signaled a new day. So when I woke up, the yard was covered with a carpet of yellow flowers from the blooming canary flowers that had secretly fallen. In the summer, the neighborhood kids often went to the grocery store to buy snacks or other miscellaneous items, happily showing off: "I'm on summer vacation at my grandmother's house". Once, the boys told me that their grandmother's house was in a province in the North, and they talked about how they enjoyed their summer vacation. They enjoyed walking on the dirt road covered with grass, enjoyed running and playing without being honked by cars, enjoyed seeing the moon rise, and enjoyed picking vegetables around the house to cook a soup. Grandmother's house is a common word for schoolchildren to imagine a countryside. Grandmother's house for summer vacation is not a room in an apartment building, each time you go in and out you have to close the door, the sky is very square in a certain space of the room, and there are no rice fields in that place.
Talking about the neighborhood kids coming back to the countryside for the summer, I just saw that my house was very empty. The school year had ended and the kids weren't coming back for summer vacation. Their parents couldn't ask for leave, and the kids were grown up, preferring to go on field trips with their classes. The house had been the same for years, when the kids were still young, if the two kids' families came back together, they would still have a place to stay. Now that the kids are grown up, when they come back, one family has to stay in a hotel, and the high cost of airfare also makes it difficult to go back when the economy is getting more and more difficult.
Every day, the royal poinciana tree on my street is more and more red with flowers. The street I pass by early in the morning is quieter because there are fewer parents taking their children to school. Stopping by a restaurant to buy breakfast is also quicker because there are no parents asking for priority to buy food so their children can go to school on time. That's it. Summer is here and the royal poinciana trees are more colorful every day.
KHUE VIET TRUONG
Source: https://baokhanhhoa.vn/van-hoa/sang-tac/202505/nhung-ngay-mua-ha-e133890/
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