… I went back to Wuhan to spend my four-day-long vacation there …

Q: how can I stand a 24-hours air travel just to spend four days back home?

A: I’m a little homesick these days, partly due to the great pressure I’ve been facing since the start of the semester. I ever thought about coming back home for winter break and discussed it with Tianyi a lot recently. But for some reason I can’t make it. This occasion indicates my wish and my concerns.

…Having nothing special to do, I went shopping with my parents in a sportswear store...

Q: Never happened in real life before. I never bought sports stuff with parents because of the taste differences. Does it imply my wish that Dad and Mom would take care of themselves and do more sports?

…Then we stopped before something like a canoe and Mom decided to buy it as a gift for Nanna...

Q: Literally it is very absurd coz Nanna is in her 80s. Hard to imagine what good a canoe will do to her. However, since she is in bad health these days, dose this mean something?