Okay, here is the translation following your instructions: A single person, I can also be very happy

Author: Xie Finland, Guo WeiJun, Zou YongShan
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Publish Date: 2000-09-01
Features: Only my dad and mom went abroad for a trip, saying it was to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary and go on a second honeymoon. But they picked the date right in the middle of the summer vacation when students were transitioning from 8th to 9th grade. During this decisive summer vacation, of course, the teacher required summer tutoring for the entire class, and no one was exempt. After weighing the options, the result was obvious: Yes, you guessed it! I went with them, but I could only see them off at the airport. I had to watch them board the plane from the Hall. I had to take a taxi home myself. On the way home by taxi, just thinking about it made me happy. Without my mom's nagging supervision, and with a little extra spending money left by my dad, the banner of freedom was waving towards me. I was finally out of hell and could be a free person. But this kind of happiness didn't last long. The usually great cable TV and videotapes, when watched without any restrictions, became boring and disgusting. Eating out every day also made me miss my mom's food, though not particularly delicious, it still had a hometown flavor. What I disliked the most was waking up early every morning and coming home after tutoring, having to face an empty house alone with no one to talk to or chat with. Even when I wanted to tell a joke, I felt like there was no duty roster (that would be my unlucky dad and mom!) to create canned laughter. (How tragic!) Then, I started counting down the days until my parents would come back. (Don't believe it!) Waaah! Dad, Mom, I miss you so much.
The class beauty, Mei Ling, who was famous for her looks, was truly red-hot today. Don't get the wrong idea—I mean her face. In that old X female geography teacher's class, the old X female teacher was checking the exam papers on stage. Our Mei Ling, probably finding the test too simple or boring, was busy admiring herself in the mirror during class. Unluckily, right in the middle of her reflection, as she was about to praise her flower-like beauty, the mirror also showed the face of the furious old X female teacher, squinting and glaring. That was bad. It wasn't clear if the old X female teacher was already dissatisfied with our naturally beautiful Mei Ling or if she had eaten something wrong that day, but she immediately took Mei Ling's mirror, made her stand in the back of the classroom, and gave her a long lecture—about her hard work from high school to now (strange, isn't she supposed to be teaching geography?), saying that beauty alone wasn't enough and that women had to rely on themselves, etc. She lectured for the entire two classes without stopping. Our Mei Ling's beautiful face turned white, then red, then purple. It must have been humiliating just to stand there, and everyone else had to endure a pointless mental lecture. She must have been so embarrassed!
Before she was left alone, Xiao Yu and Xiao Shan were best friends. No matter what they did, they were always together—using the restroom, going to the canteen, going home, even studying—always sitting next to each other. They were so inseparable that people almost thought they were twins. But at the beginning of this semester, Xiao Yu suddenly told Xiao Shan that her dad had been transferred, so the whole family had to move north, and she would have to transfer to a school in the north. At the time, Xiao Shan was only sad and didn't know what to say, only staring blankly at Xiao Yu, unable to speak a word.