Xie's parents are often away for weeks at a time

My parents work in the city and I take care of myself.

Sometimes they come home at the weekends; sometimes they don't come home for a month. I call them and ask them to come home.

I've visited Hefei – the city where my parents work selling fruit, seeds and nuts.

There are so many people there!

There are so many cars too – at night I can't go to sleep it's so loud.

Sometimes it's hard to wake up in the morning and then I get up I don't want to go to school.

For food sometimes I reheat leftovers from last night, or I cook up some cabbage and then have some fruit.

My aunt sometimes asks me to help on their farm. I pull the vegetables or dig holes and plant the seeds. 

At school I love language classes and maths, but I don't like English class – that teacher always screams and hits the students.

I want to go to college, attend the best university, and make lots and lots of money.

But my family won't have any money to pay for college, so I might just move to Hefei when I'm older to work there.

I miss my mother and father, and that's where they are.