It's fourteen years since I left the Philippines to live with my family in the USA. A month ago, while on summer vacation back in my motherland, I learned a lesson from mosquito （蚊子） bites. Right before leaving Kennedy Airport in New York, my grandma warned me of the behavior of the native mosquitoes around the visitors like me. She said, "There's an old saying—the longer you stay away from the motherland, the sweeter your blood grows to the mosquitoes. " Not believing it, I replied, "Grandmaaaa, that's just an old wives' tale!"
Well, less than a week after my arrival in Manila, I was already carpeted with a blanket of mosquito bites. I took many measures to keep myself from being bitten , but they all proved useless.
Late one night in my cousin's home, I couldn't bear the pain of the bites. Hoping to find some comfort, I woke up my cousin, who was sleeping peacefully in the bed next to mine. Unhappy for being interrupted she said, "There is nothing you can do. Go back to sleep. " With a few turns, she slept again. Enviously （妒嫉地）watching her sleep, I hoped a big mosquito would land on her face. However, the mosquitoes would just lightly dance around her forehead and fly away quickly, never biting her. Amazed （惊奇的）, I ran to others' rooms , only to find they were all sleeping soundlessly as the same thing occurred again and again.
From those bites, I came to accept my grandma's silly tale. From then on, I've always tried to keep a（n）open mind about those strange old wives' tales because they do have some truth to them.

我离开菲律宾来到美国，与这里的家人同住已有14个年头了。一个月前，我回国度暑假时，蚊子的叮咬给我上了一课。就在离开纽约肯尼迪机场之前，祖母警告我说，那里的蚊子是如何对待象我这样的来宾的。她说，“有句老话是这样的---你离开祖国的时间越长，你的血对蚊子来说就会越香甜”。我可不信这个，回答到：“奶奶，那只老主妇们讲出来的故事”！
好了，我到达马尼拉还不到一周，我混身就起满了蚊子叮的大包。为了不被汀咬，我采取了很多措施，但这都无济于事。
有天晚上，在我表妹的家里，我再也无法忍受叮咬所带来的痛苦了。表妹正安静的睡在我旁边的床上，我把她叫醒，希望能得到点安慰。我打扰了她，她很不高兴的说：“这可真的没办法，回去睡吧”。她翻了几个身，便又睡下了。看她睡着，我真是妒嫉极了，巴不得有只大蚊子落在她的脸上。可是，蚊子只是轻轻的飞到她的额头周围，然后就很快的飞走了，根本就不叮她。我惊奇的跑到其它人的屋子，发现他们都安安静静的睡着，而且每个屋子的情况都是一样的。
从这些叮咬上，我开始接受了祖母的那个愚蠢的传说。从那开始，我就试图对老主妇们所讲的传说敞开心扉了，因为这些传说确实是真的。