When I was 7 years old I came back after school and I said to my mom “mommy, snow outside right now” but it was spring. So my mom looked outside. I thought the cherry blossoms looked like snow.

When I was 13years old, I walked to my mom’s office. Perhaps then it would have been April. Suddenly I saw the sky, clouds and there were cherry trees in bloom. The scent of flower was very soft. The wind blew the petals of the cherry blossoms flying in the air like snow.

--Yoo  Jeong Hong