When I was nine, my greatest desire in life was to own a po go stick (蹦蹦跷). I had recently learned to walk on a pair of stilts (高跷) my dad had made for me, and I thought that if I also learnt to use the pogo stick, the circus would want to hire me. When the new year season came around, I told my mother that the only thing I wanted was a po go stick. My mother, however, told me they were too expensive and that our family simply couldn't afford one.
A couple of weeks before the new year, my mom and dad told me we needed to go to bank to pay our credit bill. While my mother and I were at the counter paying the bill, my dad said, "I' ll be right back, I need to see something in the tool department." Soon my dad came back with a long thin box. I remember wondering at that very moment if it was a po go stick in that box.
When we arrived back at home my dad put the box in the barn (车库). While my parents were busy with their chores, I sneaked in the barn and found the box. I was so excited and I knew that as soon as I opened that magical box, my bright, shiny po go stick would appear. But... No such luck! Inside the box was a silly old broom (扫把)! And so the New Year's Day was both great and disappointing. I got some nice gifts but I didn't get the one that I really wanted.
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After all the gifts were opened, my dad said he needed to do something in the barn.
