Since we wrote about Aaron's grandmom- Nathan's grand grandmom, I think it would be fair to write little bit something about my grandpop-Nathan's grand grandpop.
My grandpop is now 92 years old, hardly has any wrinkles on his face. He lived by himself in his own house since my grandmom passed away. However, my big uncle lives just 5 minutes walking distance from him, they deliver meals and check on him every day. He was an excellent police who catch many criminals in the past due to his great memory and smart minds. He is still in very good health, he can walk long distance ...fast, and who watches news in both Chinese and Japanese daily. He knows history well and always have tons of stories to tell.
He was born in a very poor family as the fifth child. So his father just simply give him a very simple name...Five Liu. Because his family was so poor, they actually gave him away to other family who has no son to adopt him. However, the other family was very poor too. So my grandpop only received few years education. However, he loves to learn, loves to figure things out...he self-taugh himself with excellent Japanese, excellent history, and very good in the ancient literature. Also, he pushed himself very hard in study that he passed the police test to became a Chinese police when Taiwan was still under Japanese Goverment as a colony place. It was considered very rare at that time that they are willing to let a Chinese to be their police, but since he learned Japanese well...they accepted him.
My grandparents has 8 kids, 4 sons and 4 daughters. I think they are very open to their kids because my uncles and aunties are all very comfortable to express their opinions in front of each other. And it has always been confusing to me which uncle is older or younger, because they call each other by names...so my siblings and I simply name my uncles and aunties by the city they live in.
My grandpop is very thrilled about Nathan. We asked his advice to give Nathan a Chinese name and he joked that he think Nathan's Chinese wouldn't be too good because he is American. So we'd better choose a character that's easy to write for him. Well..:-) I think my Nathan will be smart enough to remember any character that I choose for him so I decided to chose something with great meaning.
:-) The story is getting lengthy...Let's hope this article will help Nathan to remember that he has a great grand grandpop one day.
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