A Red-letter Day
The people in the photo (from the left) are my shanghai school’s Party secretary Mao, me, Fengxian Education Board’s three leaders—-section chief Tang, director wang and and another section chief wang.
The day finally came, to which we had been looking forward for a while.
Yesterday director Wang and his party of 10 people came over from Shanghai to see us and they left this morning. It is so exciting to reencounter our folks 3 months later not in our hometown but in a place which is more than 3000 kilos away. We talked a lot and had tons of group photos. It was clear they were as thrilled as us. After a visit to our dorms came the unforgetable dinner party, where everyone drank and chat in a friendly and warm atmosphere. Our Honghe hosts even sang many songs for all the Shanghai friends, among which was the most classical ‘Welome to Honghe" . Amazing.
Our leaders made light of trudging for thousands of miles to see us in person, which in itself was a great acknowledgement to our jobs here and gave us enormous encouragement. We knew they were very concerned about our life here from the intimate conversations. Before leaving, they sent us some money and asked us to take care. In return, we reassured our leaders that we wouldn’t fail to live up to their great trust.
Bon voyage.
