Jianshui Normal School: sense of deja vu 建水师范:似曾相识的感觉
Finally escaped from my cozy nest(dorm) and took a hasty trip to Jianshui(建水), where I met my e-friend Yang, a third-year student in Jianshui Normal School. Yang, a son of farmers, is cool and ahead of his time with brilliant ideas, whose major and ideal are IT and being a teacher respectively. We got to know each other from QQ and clicked at the first sight. Born and grown up in the isolated mountains, this Yi(彝)lad has never stepped out of Honghe Prefeture, not to mention Yunnan. He dreamed of finding a teaching job in the developed coastal region and then returned to repay his hometown 2-3 years later. "I just wanna broaden my outlook and toughen myself up first. What we lack most here is the advanced thought, without which,rooting out the poverty is completely a daydream." Yang expained. He is a credit and hope to his family, who have had a hard life on the barran land for generations .
Yang kindly took me under his ample wing and showed me around his compus.The trip was so fantastic, like turning the clock back to several years ago. Due to a weekend, the compus looked like an open field, big and quiet. The students were in twos and threes, basking on the lawn ,reading by the pond, hanging out the washing to dry….reminding me of my own college days. Environed by the tall trees are the various architectures, simple-designed but elegant—— a good place for schooling. Strolling down the tree-lined trail,I just felt so carefree and joyous, like walking down a memory lane. Lucked out with a clear sunny day,I feasted my eye on the beautiful scene, bright blue sky and gentle breeze. I hate most Shanghai compus, morden but cold. "Only if I could study or teach in your school! I envy you." I smiled to Yang when we passed by his classroom. I would not imagine that Jianshui would have such a good place if Yang hadn’t told me. Thanks, Yang, good luck to you.
After luch, I headed back to Yisa. Another painful endless turns and turns on the rugged mountain trail. Fortunately,I didn’t shoot my cookies because I swallowed an anti-carsickness pill in advance. It was already pitch black outside when I returned, exsausted, after 5-hour-long incessant jolting and bumping. A nightmare to me as the ride on the rough mountain track is, I must admit the visit to Jianshui Normal School is really wonderful.
