She always misses her mom.

Source from English Essay


I'm a farmer and constructure business as a second job. One day I won a contract to build houses in a small mountain village for 3 months. I lived there to manage the project and got to know the villagers well. One of whom is sujin who is raised by her grandmother. Her parents had gotten divorced. She only has one man whom can talk with, her grandmother.
At the end of every school day, she would go to the entrance of the village and wait there for her grandmother. Watching subin wait there all alone made my heart ache.


I decided to reach out to her. Whenever I saw her, I said hi,hoping to get her to open up to me. (open up 마음을 열다. open one's heart to + 사람 - ~ 에게 마음을 열다)
From time to time, I gave her the bread that I had packed for a snack. But she didn't seem to open up to me. Her facial expression stayed the same. stone-faced.


Then one day, subin visited me at work. She gave me an individually wrapped Choco Pie. She actually almost threw it at me and she left hurriedly. But It was very touching and I was grateful. The next day,I bought a box of Chocopi and gave it to Subin. She said,"Thank you,sir"
That was the first sentence that I had ever heard say. She finally started to open up.


Later that evening, Subin visited me to hand me a roll of papers. (a roll of a film. 롤필름). There were the test sheets that said "100%" and the awards that she had gotten for doing well on tests.
It was obvious that subin was thirsty for words of encouragement and motivation. I praised her using all kinds of good words that I know.


My project came to an end. (end,finish) I went to say goodbye to Subin. I said to Subin "Who do you miss the most? " With tears in her eyes, she said "Mom...I miss my mom."
I could not do anything for her but to just tightly hold her hands while she was crying.
It has already been months since I left the village. But whenever I think of Subin,my heart still hurts. I hope that the heartache she has for her mom will someday heal.