Mid-term exams&My first Yunnan diary期中考试&我的第一篇云南日记
Time flies! Half semester has unnoticably slipped away before I realize that it’s now high time to blog some stuff for future’s memories. The past 2 months is , after all, way too busy and eventful to me,who had been dreaming of stepping onto this magic soil of Yunnan one day.
Now I am in a classsroom, watching the students sitting their first full-scale exams of their senior high school stage. They, aged around 16, are mostly from poverty-stricken areas, which could be easily told from their plain clothes, swarthy compexion and especially how they value the tests. Basically,these good-as-gold kids would all sit out every 2-hour-long exam,wasting no time and trying their best to achieve every single possible score. They wanna live up to their hard-earned tuition fee and opportunity of further study.
Seeing this, I, as a volunteer from the relatively-developed coastal cosmopolitan city , cannot help but recalling my Shanghai students and sharing some views here. you’ll never know what a spoiled and previleged life you are living .However, it is saddening that many of you ,addicted to net games, are not in the slightest awarenese of the fact there are still considerable number of your peers here in Yunnan who don’t even know how to use computers. Ironically, you spare no effort indulging yourselves in the other extreme– virtual cyber space. In actuality,I like to "monitor“(or "acompany", more actually) these Yunnan kids during their exams, for there is almost no bother worring if they copy or cheat .Cheating here is still a rarity and regarded as a shame rather than a "pride" somewhere else.
So what i am doing during the two hour is nothing but handing out papers on time and then awaiting them to hand in on time. In between is just my apprieciation of their hard work and accasionally the outwindow’s beautiful seneries ,which are mainly made up by the lavishly green rolling mountains. Therefore,invigilation here is no longer a gut-wrenching close watch but simply one of my alternative relaxations .
