The development of everything in the world is a gradual process. I have been looking forward to this opportunity from the very beginning when I had the conviction of joining the MSI missionary team. One day in the classroom, suddenly received a call from the captain, he said, welcome me to join. Thus, eight months of preparation kicked off. From convincing my family and applying for support from the school to conquering my own fears; from choosing a course to preparing for it lesson by lesson; from considering the constraints of all external factors to attending the teaching training as well as the medical training, we had countless discussions and even arguments before we finally finalized our plans. From teaching to finance, from medical care to logistics, from security to traveling, we make all kinds of arrangements, and each team member's division of labor and cooperation does their best, and finally reveals a satisfied smile. Step by step, we *** with the practical step, after finalizing the team name we *** with the collection of funds plus outside sponsorship, MSI college students teaching team finally registered successfully, we are honored to be the first batch of MSI team members.
We really want to emphasize that everything is difficult at the beginning. The captain collected nine hundred pounds of books in his school library, which no logistics company was willing to transport, and the shipping cost was also very expensive. The three students brought these books from Shanghai to Ningguo, and I won't go into the details of how hard it was. When we finally left Ningguo, five boys and six girls carried the books, as well as all kinds of luggage, equipment, school supplies for the children's classes, and other materials, which wouldn't have been too much work if that was all. However, God played a little joke on us. A typhoon prevented us from traveling to Huaihua, Hunan Province, which is a transportation hub, and the train service was suspended for three consecutive days. In order to hurry, we chose the Hukun line to bypass Huaihua, so with these luggage, we kept changing trains ...... Here, first of all, thanks to the boys and girls of the team did not shout a word of tiredness, and secondly, thanks to the staff of the train stations and trains for their understanding and assistance. On the way, we encountered a typhoon in the front of Guangxi and were trapped in Baise. When we finally arrived in Kunming, the train was ten hours late. By the time we got to Dali, we had been on the train for nearly sixty hours and everyone was extremely tired. A few books that had been pulled out on the way were almost left on the train, but one of the team members said, "We can't throw any of them away! How can we throw away the books we worked so hard to bring?". I can't throw away the books I've worked so hard to bring. Here to sneak in a funny word, the night we arrived at the school, I ate four bowls of rice ......
Stepping into the Shuanglang Middle School, the most intuitive feeling is that this is a newly built school, such a beautiful school, such a place need to our teaching? The second reaction was that we accidentally found another team, Shanghai Electric Power. So the traveling plus the appearance of the school and Shanghai Electric Power made our mood drop. Then we found out that the dormitory where we live has no water and electricity ...... suddenly felt the sky black. However, let the bullets fly, quiet mind, in exchange with the brothers of Shanghai Electric Power found that Shuanglang Middle School is the 2008 Sichuan earthquake for earthquake prevention and funding for the new, but the teaching faculty is not very good, the local concept of backwardness of education, the students are generally poorer in English, because the elementary school students do not learn English, a lot of children can be said to have zero basis in English. And Shanghai Electric Power just summer practice activities to Shuanglang, will immediately go to the next practice site. After two days, we have gotten used to and overcome the awkward situation of inconvenient water and electricity. After getting strong support from the principal of the middle school, our activities were carried out smoothly.
Teaching activities are mainly divided into two aspects: teaching work and team work. In the teaching work, for junior high school students and elementary school students each set up a class, there are special team members responsible for teaching work arrangements and tracking supervision and feedback. The junior high school offers language, mathematics, foreign languages, music, physical education, science, biology, history, geography, medicine, and Spanish. Elementary schools offer classes in language, mathematics, foreign languages, audio, physical education, biology, history, geography, and handicrafts. Every elementary school class will be attended by at least one teacher. In less than a month's time, I saw the efforts of the team members, each one of them prepared the lessons carefully before the class, tried to interact with the students to take care of each child during the class, and actively summarized the lessons learned in each class after the class. In case of a decrease in the number of students, we promptly identified the problems and proposed solutions, and with the communication with students and parents as well as the improvement of the quality of lessons by the teachers, the number of students showed a fluctuating upward trend. Both elementary and junior high school students give me the impression that they are not only positive but also mischievous in the classroom. Now that I am facing the students as a teacher myself, I realize that it is really not easy to be a teacher. These children are very enthusiastic about learning. The junior high school students mentioned in the teaching exchange meeting that they hoped the teacher would make the lessons more difficult or increase the number of boards, and the elementary school students even came to the school every day after dinner to ask us questions, and used their playtime to study, which I was very touched by. Often in the noisy classroom to see a child lying on the desk with sincere, serious eyes looking at me, that moment, I am really grateful and gratified. I've had teammates who have been exasperated and cried in elementary school classrooms, and I've had teammates who have lost their tempers with children. When dealing with naughty students even though I didn't cry with anger or scold them, their noisy and mischievous behavior kept me silent for a long time. I began to understand the hard work of classroom teachers and teachers, and it can be said that experiencing every class can make people grow. When I first met them, I was often greeted with a friendly smile by some shy children who didn't speak, and this kind of smile under the shyness really makes it unforgettable and touching.
But these children, say they do not understand, but they are really very well behaved, but sometimes really make people laugh and cry. However, after all, they are 12 or 13 years old children, and can not use our adult perspective to see their world. We don't have a crew scheduled to cook on the weekends, and we usually cook and eat on our own at meal times on the weekends. The kids come to play with us, and I hear them saying to each other,
"Why do the teachers always eat noodles?"
"Funds are tight, aren't they ......"
"Then let's each carry some rice from home!"
When I heard them say that, I really felt touched, happy and relieved, and thought they were silly and cute.
In the beginning, probably because of small misunderstandings, more than one team member told me that some children asked them, "Why is Sister Goddess ignoring us?" "Why doesn't Ms. Goddess play with us?" . At that time, after reflecting on the situation, I realized that the children's simple and friendly hearts were almost hurt by me, but they were actually sensitive. The love that comes from the teacher, they reciprocate with the same love. So I was very attentive and spent most of my time with the little ones. The world of small children is relatively simple, for them, like is like, happy, laugh; dislike is dislike, sad, cry. The captain of the team plays the role of a black face to us and to the children. Many children told me, "We don't like the team leader!" , "Why doesn't the captain let you come to our house for dinner?" "We're going hiking on the weekend without the captain!" The children's words were so cute that I could only explain to them. However, at the end of the program, the children still loved the team leader very much and wrote letters to him. They also understand that it is not necessarily the person who indulges your nature is a good person.
There is a longitude difference between Yunnan and our place, plus the reason for the altitude, it will only start to get dark at 8:00 pm, so the daytime is particularly long, resulting in a long working time for us, and we feel very tired and full every day. After a day of teaching, we have a regular meeting in the evening to summarize the day's work, raise questions and solve problems. On Saturdays, we go to students' homes to make home visits and communicate with parents. I've been out there once, and the kids were bouncing around and leading us through all kinds of trails and hills. The parents were very polite and welcoming, and we appreciated their respect for us, taking the time out of their busy schedules to sit down and chat with us, which is a great support for our work. Parents were kind enough to leave us for dinner, but there are team rules that don't allow us to eat at students' homes. In the course of home visits, we found that parents have their own concepts of education, and understand that teaching is tailored to the needs of the child. Many children's homes are plastered with awards, there is proof of academic excellence, but also the interpretation of the overall development of art and sports. One ****same shortcoming is that most parents lack communication with their children, and children do not like to tell their parents if they are happy or unhappy, which we suggest that parents communicate with their children more often. In the local area, there is an interesting phenomenon, the children come home late at night parents will not blame. This, in my opinion, does more harm than good. So at nine o'clock in the evening every day, we will send home the children who are playing or studying inside the school.
It's a great feeling to walk home in the moonlight with the kids talking and laughing. One time when it was raining when we were taking them home, my little boyfriends insisted on giving us teachers their umbrellas and raincoats, and said, "Boyfriends are supposed to protect their girlfriends! They said, "Boyfriends are supposed to protect their girlfriends! The reason why the girls are my boyfriends stems from the fact that when I first met them, they asked me if I had a boyfriend, and I laughed and said no, and then the two girls said that we would be your boyfriends! Just like that, I have two little boyfriends and one little girlfriend. When I think about it, the corners of my mouth go up. Speaking of which, I can't help but think of the loving relationship that middle schoolers had with their team Spanish teacher and geography teacher. One night, the junior high school student and his two teammates went out for a walk, and the boy walked in front of them and said, "Teacher, we are your bodyguards. If there are perverts in front of you, we'll help you chase them away!" I'm really touched. I was really touched. Although the children's words, but feel that they are exceptionally well-behaved and understand, although not all know, but also understand a lot of reason.
My favorite part of the day was when I went to walk with the kids on the Erhai Sea every evening. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world, and you'll be able to do that with the help of your own personal computer. In the distance, the beautiful sunset and the charming clouds smiled at our playfulness. I miss and cherish those times. And understand very clearly that those days are gone. On the last weekend, I accompanied the kids to the Red Mountain Temple. Along the way, the boys were all kinds of naughty, picking pears and breaking corn and chasing each other, while the girls sang and braided bracelets and collars. I was really happy to be surrounded by them. When we arrived at the Red Mountain Temple, the girls picked all kinds of wild jujubes and pomegranates for our teachers to eat. The boys couldn't wait to take off their clothes and jump into the water for a swim, which was really fun when I think back on it. Two little incidents happened in the meantime, one thing was that our little hero bravely and promptly saved a child who fell into the water, when this dark and thin teenager picked up the three-year-old child in the water, it really felt that the sunshine poured on him, it was so cool! Another thing is, I accidentally lost a student's glasses, the boys did not say anything to get into the water to touch the glasses, when a boy to find the glasses lifted above his head, he smiled and said he found it, a big smile, white teeth ......
These lovely children, with their simplicity, innocence and sincerity, touched us! A group of people. Some children are cheerful, some are silent, some are shy, some are naughty, any kind of character does not prevent us from learning and playing happily together every day. I love the capricious bratty princess, love the hardworking and down-to-earth school bully, love the boy with sincere eyes, love the beautiful and mischievous girl, love the multi-talented girl, love the Peng who often hits me, love the Jinhua who pulls my hand. Spend time with each other, teachers, older siblings, friends, multiple identities so that the feelings between us are getting better and better day by day.
During the thirty days of work, the team's various tasks were organized and on track. Yang Suwen and I are responsible for the logistics of the team's efforts, so that the team can eat every day to save money and delicious meals. And every day the team gathered around and ate all the food, the feeling of a big pot meal might never be experienced again. On the last day of the break-up dinner, we ate hot pot together, grabbed a bit of joy, a teammate said jokingly: "Oops, every day we all get along harmoniously so over, the last day of the everyone turned the other cheek ~ ~" a sentence that everyone can not help but laugh. Favorite Lin Lin Su Wen's braised pork, baby vegetables in soup, they are the most creative and popular chef. I remember the cola chicken wings Xu Yao made before he left. There is also Chen Liting's group of various colors of refreshing and delicious Ningguo small dishes. Captain cooking oil saving not put oil ah repeatedly be black, but his dry pot tea tree mushrooms can be remarkable. Of course, there I do braised chicken pieces were Zhongshan can not forget ah!
Our MSI team is an organic whole, each person's hard work in exchange for today's success. The first thanks to the laborious captain adults, in front of the children he is the villain is the bad guy, because he must bear all the accusations, opinions, misunderstandings to maintain our tenet principle. It was downright bitter for the Captain to be blackballed for eating, for clearing the plate, and for cooking. Here, I would like to say a big thank you to him who is far away from the disaster area. We are all aware of all his worries and efforts. Then there's Ruiting Liu, thanks to her who has been exhausting her brain cells to buy all kinds of train tickets for a group of people, so vast and complicated, the first to take the credit! Vice-captains Xu Yao, Xiao Ge and Xiaodong, your sanity and gentleness are indispensable additives to the team. There is also the safety officer Zhongshan, every night at 10:30 pm wearing a steel helmet with a headlamp on time to patrol the campus, urging us to go back to sleep in the dormitory, to ensure our safety at the same time also shoulder the cafeteria duty room of the electricity safety. When everyone was sick and my foot was sprained, I was touched by the silent and meticulous care of the medical director, Ms. Long. Pistachio Fu Huan, Ye Ying always makes me laugh. Ye's meeting minutes are perfect and everything is recorded. Xiaolong, the gentle informant, has been "squatting" in the junior high school class and has been paying her duty in the junior high school class. The most important financial management has been well managed by Li Ru, even with surplus funds! Linlin, the head of the village construction, organized various activities, thanks to her patience to play games with the children every day. Our village building activities organized for the fair were very effective, thanks to the team leader and Linlin's contacts before and after the publicity. The work of other teammates will not be repeated here.
With that said, one of the kids just asked me, "Teacher, do you miss your teammates? I miss you guys." In the past two days, some children also called me to tell me that they miss us very much, said, the phone has choked. Frankly speaking, before I went there, I understood that I would leave; before I left, I was already sad; when I left, the children's retention and the expectation of letting us come back made my heart ache; after I left, the children's phone calls, and the MMS with the pictures of the children crying and writing letters really made me feel guilty, and at one point, I regretted that I had to come here and leave them with tears in my eyes. But then I thought, we can't reject the beauty of a rose just because it has thorns. We are like a fish that leaps out of the water and falls back in, smashing ripples that ripple out in circles, and then the water will be calm again. The kids are young now, and they'll shed tears because they miss it, but one day they'll grow up, and they'll smile at the memory. Our story is so long and there are so many memories to chew on.
The goodbye, reluctant and hard. I don't know when my teammates and children will see each other again. We grew up together and we are waiting for them to grow up slowly. To borrow a phrase from my teammates, next summer, I want to meet you. This wonderful promise between us will one day be realized.
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