Love Stories from other lands -Mon/Tues class

Story 1
A Love Story
A Chinese story by Yu (Mon/Tues class)

Once upon a time in China, there was a girl who liked to go to school. But girls were not allowed to go to school at that time so she dressed up as a boy so she could attend school.

She loved school and while she was there she met a boy she loved very much and intended to marry him. She invited him to come to her home next year and promised that he could marry her sister. In fact there was no sister – she was going to pretend to be her sister.

The girl’s father forced her to marry a rich man when she went home. Just before wedding the boy came happily and asked, “Where is your sister?” Then the girl told the truth. He was shocked and regretted that he came so late. He died a short time after this.

On the girl’s wedding day she insisted that she on the journey to the ceremony she went to visit her love’s grave to say ‘farewell’. Otherwise she would refuse to be married. Her father was not happy but he allowed her to go.

In front of his grave her heart felt like it would break; she cried very hard. Suddenly to her surprise the grave opened. She jumped in it .Then the grave closed again slowly. Meantime a pair of beautiful butterflies flew out of the grave. They went to heaven together.

Story 2
Love Story
Written by J. K. Mon/Tues class

A very long time ago there was a bachelor who was desperately looking for a wife. One night as he drove his car home from work, he saw a girl hitch hiking so he stopped the car for her. She got in the car and the man gave her a lift home.

On the way home she was feeling very cold and asked the man if ahe could borrow his jacket. She told him she would give his jacket back the next morning. So he went to see her the next day but she is not in because her mother said she had already passed away.

The man would not believe the mother so the woman took him to her daughter’s gravesite. There was his jacket hanging over the headstone. He was so sad that stopped eating and drinking.

Not long after the bachelor died because he missed his lover very much and he committed suicide.