Nkhaniyi ndi yachitatu pamndandanda wokondwerera California Arbor Week. Lero, tikumva kuchokera kwa Ashley Mastin, Network and Communications Manager ku California ReLeaf.
Monga wogwira ntchito ku California ReLeaf, ndikhoza kukhala m'mavuto chifukwa chovomereza kuti mtengo umene ndimakonda si uli ku California. M'malo mwake ndi mbali ina ya dziko ku South Carolina kumene ndinakulira.
Mtengo wa thunduwu uli pabwalo la nyumba ya makolo anga. Yobzalidwa ndi eni ake oyambirira a nyumbayo m’ma 1940, inali itakula kale pamene ndinabadwa mu 1980. Ndinasewera pansi pa mtengo umenewu ndili mwana. Ndinaphunzira kufunika kogwira ntchito molimbika kukweza masamba omwe amagwa nthawi iliyonse kugwa. Tsopano, tikamachezera banja langa, ana anga amaseŵera pansi pa mtengo umenewu pamene ine ndi amayi tikukhala momasuka mumthunzi wake.
Pamene ndinasamukira ku California zaka khumi zapitazo, zinkandivuta kuona china chilichonse kupatulapo misewu yaufulu ndi nyumba zazitali. M’maganizo mwanga, mitengo ngati thundu inali paliponse ku South Carolina ndipo ndinali nditangosamukira kumene m’nkhalango ya konkire. Ndinaganiza choncho mpaka ndinabwereranso kukaona banja langa kwa nthawi yoyamba.
Pamene ndinali kudutsa m’tauni ya kwathu yaing’ono ya anthu 8,000, ndinadzifunsa kumene mitengo yonse yapita. Zinapezeka kuti South Carolina sinali yobiriwira monga mtengo womwe ndimakonda komanso zokumbukira ndili mwana zidandipangitsa kukumbukira. Pamene ndinabwerera ku Sacramento, m’malo mowona nyumba yanga yatsopano ngati nkhalango ya konkire, pomalizira pake ndinawona kuti, m’chenicheni, ndinali kukhala pakati pa nkhalango.
Mtengo wa oak uwu unalimbikitsa kukonda kwanga mitengo ndipo chifukwa chake, udzakhala wokonda kwambiri. Popanda izo, sindikadakhala ndi chiyamikiro chofanana cha nkhalango zomwe ndimakonda - yomwe ndimayendetsa, kuyendamo, ndikukhalamo tsiku lililonse.