Rain slurry Road (order)
Came back a few days, and thoughts are always around that difficult journey, a long period of rain-soaked dirt, overcast, wet, cold, mechanical way that each step is to move forward with.
The distance, is the destination - a town in Anhui Fuyang school volunteers.
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It is run by volunteers, created a secondary, previously produced the initial idea to establish this school, a local farmer, farmers Beizhao Bao went to Beijing University, I asked directions on campus are experiencing a Beijing University student.
That followed him back to Anhui Beijing University students to see that the newly established secondary school, that he stayed for only a short few days, but he came home not long back, this time he stayed for several years, until today.
This trip I saw the eyes of the volunteers is very simple, only one volunteer who's gore-tek clothing also revealed that the original environment, other people have almost the same with the local farmers, boots, and even plain old dirty clothes, silence simple smile. . .
After the forum that home visits to students, the school to his home is 10 miles round trip 20 years are in the rain, stepping foot in the countryside clay road, until the student's house, when it touched the sky is already dark, and so the time to leave his house the sky a dark, cold rain was not the slightest starlight moonlight, the only light source is its own flashlight, darkness, high kick low kick to trek dirt road, but for fellow travelers of the help I had already fallen in the fields, and occasionally head - to passenger car headlights are so Xuan Mu, I thought we would get lost, but we do not, in the dark in the distance the school is not visible as the invisible lights guide us.
During that road, hard to forget.
A few days later, in People's Square, I actually find it hard habit around the noisy crowd, in contrast, relatively warm winter rain, I feel like the shell had been frozen, I desperately miss that part of the countryside road also know that this trip is just the beginning, everything began to travel the longer term.
Camping in the classroom
Tents, sleeping bags, out of the window is not l'etoile, looked on the body under the soil.
In the dream I do not know where you are, but woke up in a small town in Anhui Province.
This is a shabby-down schools, the cold night sky, the school is based on a mud lake,
Although spared mentally prepared before he came here, came even after saying that the "既来之,则安之" mentality, but it is still seen and heard in front of the school so that I am a volunteer teacher was full of admiration.
Give a few examples for instance, the novel, "Ordinary World" started talking about the students stood in the rain, the playground to eat, I did not expect an overhauled to experience, and two in the afternoon was ushered in my first meal of the day, I brought in the cold rain of lumpy rice bowls, and we and the students stand in a quagmire in the wolf, to import food in the rain soon. Xiao Yue This is soup is also best in the world.
Schools to well water-based, but it was out of hand brake pressure well water brought the rust taste hard to swallow, I did not imagine the well water tasted sweet, on the contrary there are a number of companions drank the water the day after the acclimatized, who give birth to a rash, which is also the volunteers have experienced an off.
Toilets, the typical rural-style, and the ground dug a few holes, some of the stone and leave the aircraft. Its foul bear fell to the second, the most embarrassing is that every time you want to reach through a mire of this "convenient place." Convenience at inconvenient believed to be blocking one of the reasons a lot of enthusiastic patriots.
Another classrooms and dormitories are all volunteers before liberation of the old house and sometimes leaks. . .
But within a few days to understand the resistance from environmental and human imagination more than in the original.
Those volunteers are a mixture of travelers and farmers, they are frozen soil reclamation Napian are trying to grow out of the wilderness on the fruit of hope.
However, few people that read the middle school, learn to continue into the village, only a few elite each year in order to enter university cities, migrant workers, most of those father and brother's family, in that home do not look at books, eat a dinner on the sleep environment. . . I do not know how many people can a real effort to fight back. To change your life?
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Night, surrounded by tables and chairs have slept there, only some of the places to silence the blackboard writing, using the rough into a blackboard eraser Buguo quietly lying slumped down For the podium, I am cranky with, in this foreign land of the tent wrapped a sleeping bag, it has also had a sweet dream.
Found in the world with this life, where students are very cute.
Many girls prospect of a handsome, there's like a girl singing has a well-behaved, pleasant appearance, while the other told me that the girls want to have a glitter black and tailor the big eyes and difficult to draw hard to describe the growth of eyelashes of days, while some child's dress tends to urbanization, some have dyed hair.
However, only a few of them went to a one-hour drive from Fuyang City, let alone further afield, while most of them graduated from junior high school after a year or two but it will come to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and Shenzhen.
Then you and I may encounter them on the road, but you might no longer be able to recognize it on the road encounters did you have that expression Qingliang of the child, they simply ignore your gaze swept the roadside waiting for a group of recruitment of the wage earners, do you share it with their eyes are not the cornerstone of more than one side of the road.
However, ever thought of, they also want to live a life like you and me? Or they know the possibility of a different life.
Most students tell us that read the middle school will no longer be studying, I always hope that they can learn social skills at school, as a volunteer to say: Even as employees, but also more responsive to urban migrant workers rules of the game?
A memory
Forum is not my intention, but it still took place as scheduled.
Scores of classroom desks and chairs Minato became a conference room, surrounded by circle of students sitting, I and some companions joined them.
Organizers of the question, began an embarrassing, too direct, but also I look forward to beyond: What are your ideals, how you want to achieve your vision?
Children ------
Silence, embarrassed laughter, silence.
The children of those who started the third-year the number of serious thought and structure across their own future?
So I and some companions attempt to change the atmosphere:
The Lai Shixiang tell you, we are like you, and also hope to help us, I found that you are very cute. Let's also to help you, because we not only care about you that you are now concerned about the future. Maybe we do not do anything, but learn more about some of you, perhaps we will know what we can offer help. . . . .
So there is a boy openings, and he said keep our noses to the one on the choke: My ideal is college entrance examinations.
While here, the teacher had told me that the students here is how the university entrance exam was not easy. Very low rate, his family distress.
However, in this bit his lips, bowed his head to the third-year in front of children, our hearts suddenly moved by a swell of strange. Yes, you go hard then a return to it, success or failure of your life will be different! Whether the future, farmers, migrant workers, tailors, or university professors, all I hope you will succeed.
Volunteers and we ----
The boys in this calm before the bottom of my heart straightforward silent.
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Go to university professors to talk about with his school to the doctoral graduate from the rural areas difficult journey left a line on the blackboard the words "Knowledge is power," while leaving the background of the photo is that the lines, the outlook is silent with volunteers face.
But have not photographed is the time to listen to the story that wanted to test university students can not mask the excitement, perhaps, this is the beginning of his close to the ideal, right?
lila
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