The Fire That Changed Me
改变我的那场大火
I was eleven years old standing outside in just my underwear while I watched the house that I grew up in rapidly burn to the ground.
A few minutes earlier I had been sound asleep in my nice， warm bed when a scream woke me up.
My grandmother’s bedroom was just next to mine and my brother’s. A fire had broken out there and awakened her.
Hearing her my older brother had sprung into action.
While I stumbled around in the smoke and darkness he ran from room to room quickly waking everyone in the house.
The house， however， was over 50 years old and made of wood. Before we could do anything the fire consumed it.
We all barely made it outside before the
十一岁的我只穿着内衣站在外面，看着伴我长大的房子迅速地被大火夷为平地。（剩余2066字）