http://yunnan.blogsome.com Weblog featuring thoughts and experiences from a Shanghai voluntary English teacher on the magic soil of Yunnan Province Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:25:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 打开新博客请点击 http://i.cn.yahoo.com/shanghaigoodtime说明：图片更新见旧博客， 文字更新见新博克。 http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2007/04/14/p71/ http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2007/04/14/p70/ http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2007/04/14/p69/ http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2007/04/14/p68/ http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2007/04/14/p67/ http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2007/04/14/p66/ http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2007/04/14/p65/ http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2007/04/14/p64/ http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2007/04/14/p63/ http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2007/04/14/p62/ 今天在甲寅乡中学开课和听课活动，收益菲浅。沿途美丽的梯田让我留恋往返。  http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2007/03/22/p60/ 山村小学 http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2007/03/20/p59/ 2007年2月26日(星期一) 起航下午1点50分,飞机从虹桥机场起飞.领登机牌时,我特地要了一张靠窗的位置,因为我要拍照给孩子们(我的云南高中学生)看.上学期,他们听说我坐过飞机,羡慕得不得了,一定要我拍几张.看着印有中国东方航空字样的翅膀在凌云飞翔,我想,这些孩子的心不正像这翅膀一样吗?终有一天,他们会飞出大山,自由地翱翔在蓝天白云之上!坐在我身边的是两位去昆明旅游的韩国女士,中文不错.一边听我讲学生的故事,一边看着下面连绵的红土丘陵后,不由瞪大了眼睛,连连说"中国太大了".是啊, 中国太大了,我们这些支教教师多么庆幸有这么一次让我们亲眼目睹中国之"大"的机会啊!2007年2月27日(星期二) 归心似剑 昨天来昆明机场接我们的是红河县一中的驾驶员范师傅.等我们取出行李时已是下午5点,老范提议晚上就住昆明,因为这里离红河县还得开7个小时.我们问老范累不累,他说累倒不累,只是黑夜走山路不安全.我们提议到建水住宿,天黑前再走3个小时的高速路就可以确保第二天早点到校.老范点头表示同意.今天一大清早继续上路.看到两边熟悉的山坡和刚刚开放的攀枝花,我们兴奋不已:红河,我们又回来了! 2007年2月28日(星期三)十字路口今天老师和学生领课本,明天正式上课.下午我去教务处拿授课计划,回到宿舍区碰到住在隔壁的张华的父母.张华是我的学生,聪明而单纯,只是初中文化课基础太差而影响了高中学习.张华的父母都没有稳定的收入,他们想让张华读职校好早点出来工作,问我行不行.我帮他们分析了一些情况,建议坚持读完高中.并补充向他们指出:其一,他19岁的姐姐是一个极好的榜样,今年大专一毕业就考上了公务员.其二,张华也可以请教另外3名支教老师,他们也愿意帮助这位懂事的孩子辅导辅导物理和数学.张华,就看你的了!2007年3月1日(星期四) 奖励今天正式上课,主要是就上个学期期末考试进行反馈.这些孩子很争气,英语平均分名列年级前茅.我打算好好奖励奖励他们.奖品早就准备好了,按照计划,凡是超过平均分的同学都有奖品.20多位同学喜气洋洋地上来领走手表,钢笔,笔记本等等,突然在我的眼睛余光里,下面一个同学轻轻地埋下头.这个不经意的细节让我赶快重新看了一下讲台上的期中期末两份成绩表.发现这名女生虽然只有53分,但比期中的32分进步了不少.这时我有主意了.奖刚一发完,我就宣布:明天我还要奖励一批,他们就是虽然期末没达到平均但比期中进步的同学.话音刚落,底下已是掌声笑声连成一片!2007年3月2日(星期五) 牵挂今天我没课,上午在宿舍静静地阅读教材.下午听班主任说班上还有好多同学没来报到,我的心就再也静不下来了.特别是品学兼优的李孟沙,更让我放心不下.这孩子先天残疾,家境异常贫困.上学期我给过他一些资助,甚至我把我最喜欢的悠哈uha糖全给了他,看到这位可怜的孩子在津津有味地品尝,我的心那,真的比蜜还甜.去年,我在我的上海学校网站上介绍过他,校长答应资助他一台电脑.这次我没带也有我的考虑,如果他真的辍学,学学一技之长倒是非常不错.今年我又带来了悠哈,但仅有悠哈是远远不够的,明天就是周末,我知道该做什么了. http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2007/03/03/p58/           2月27号上街买日用品,顺便买了2只小鸡(大约出壳10多天)放在院子里.在墙角简单的圈了一下算作他们的住所.晚上9点左右,我到院子里发现鸡没有了.拿了电筒到处找,老孙也来帮忙.循着鸡叫,在闲置的淋浴房门后找到1只.另一只确始终不见,担心被猫叼走了.第二天上午,这只孤零零的小鸡在院子里叫个不停,我到哪里,它就跟到哪里. 临近中午时,我隐约听到院墙外还有小鸡叫,我从一个大豁口下去,刚站稳,一只小鸡就跑过来,顺从地被我一把抓住放到上面.2只小鸡又团圆了.见面就啄,既似高兴又像在互相嗔怪.现在他们形影不离,根本就不理我了.傍晚,我就把他们赶到淋浴房里.闲暇时看着他们,真有一种很放松的感觉. http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2007/03/02/p57/   这里太热了. 刚到红河一中,我就迫不及待把一身冬装(包括皮夹克羊毛衫)换成短袖短裤及拖鞋. 当地人说这里只会越来越热,除了阴雨天外. 开学三天了, 让我感到最舒服的还是在院子里用自来水冲凉. 傍晚打完羽毛球后一次,晚上睡前又一次. 巨爽! 新学期第一天,我把衣柜整理了一遍,发现至少15件衣服这学期是没机会穿了,重重的一大马夹袋.上海还是冬天,这里已是夏天.看来我们2007年注定是少了一个春天,多了一个酷暑.附: 我的新博客: http://i.cn.yahoo.com/blog-GouWGiUic6fjYS69IADVN6wjKe.eaqyo http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2007/03/01/p55/ Three Lis are three students whose last names are Li. Have I mentioned before that there are extra many Li-surnamed people here in Honghe? Just in my class the Lis make up nearly half, most of whom belong to Hani(哈尼)ethnic group. Really, nine out of ten people you meet in ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/12/17/three-lis/ If you ask me what attracts me most in Yunnan, I will say without hesitation it is the climate.  November now. In Shanghai, it is already freezing cold and my families have bundled themselves tightly. But here in Yunnan, it seems that people haven’t changed their outfits much since mid summer. Now ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/12/08/lovely-weather/  Today I had a demonstration lesson, which was observed by nearly 10 teachers. Not a big hit but something to write home about. In a nutshell, it was a reading class, aiming at cultivate the students’reading ability. As all we know, grammatical questions are only fractional while listening,reading and writing ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/12/06/p38/ Yesterday: First time to shoot my temple out of control. My assignments for the students to do after school are supposedly the fewest—-only a small composition each week. In the first place, I tried to keep calm when told by my little assistant that only 5 students turned in their homework ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/12/03/p36/  "There is another day before the LAST month of 2006" said the emcee in a radio music program in a sentimental voice last night. Later, she played some pieces of music, most of which were love songs. I had long passed the age of having a love affair but I found the lirics and ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/12/01/sentimentality/ Today I observed another fellow’s lesson. A newbie as he is,his passion and vitality is what I pretty much envy. Counting him in, I have sitted in on no less than 10 teachers’classes up to now.It is beyond doubt that I have learnt a lot from these observations. In gerneral, ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/30/p34/ Dunno how many days our dorms have been cut off from Internet. Previously, we had been out of water for 10 days in a row. Just imagine the smelly compus and town in general. The day before yestday, the power was off. The students seemed to be happy—–They didn’t need to go to ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/28/odds-and-ends/ The other day,I ran into a little girl on my way to a student’s home in the mountains. She, sitting on the ground, looked up and smiled sweet to meet my greeting. Around 4 years old , she was no longer a toddler. I bent down and tried to help her up ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/27/32/ 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 ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/25/p31/ Last week I went to see a student, who lived in the 5-hour-away countryside. The first 3 hours was a bus ride to a small one-street town, where I was told the road ahead was impassable. With the help of locals and a draft map, I managed to make it to Li’s home(my student) before noon. ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/24/30/ This was taken on my way via Yuanjiang two months ago. I redicovered it when sorting out a large pile of photos. Forgot the name but I know the picture just doen’t do justise to this cute village.All the houses are built with the charecteristic red soil, firm and beautiful.  Nearly a hundred years’ weathering has ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/23/p29/ The other day, I met two countrywomen in the street, who were selling the firewood in the market. I was taken back when they told how heavy each bundle was. 100 jin at least, my god! Seeing my suspicion, one of them unloaded hers and let me have a try. Until my back was ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/23/28/ Remember the first day I entered the classroom in Yunnan and was stunned by the masses of clouds floating near on the opposite mountains, repeating to the students that the seneries were just too beautiful.Now having stayed here for over 3 months, no longer will I see it as a spectacle as I did ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/23/27/ Waked to a sunbeam resting on my desk and I pulled open the door，stepping into the courtyard.It was empty and quiet and I realized the school was still on vacation and my buddies hadn’t returned from the long journey. So I was on my own again today. Inside was a ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/22/p26/ I got an email today from one of my bog’s readers. What follows is the original text(see the highlighted part). hi there, i came across your blog, which was very well-written. much to my surprise, though, you are a chinese native who teaches english in yun nan. at my first ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/20/p25/ 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 ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/20/p24/ At last,Li(the student mentioned in the previous post) came over at noon and we had a good talk. To break the ice, I expressed my apprieciation to his wishes of helping share his family’s burden by wishing to work early at the expense of dropping out of school.  ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/17/p23/ Today, I recieved a strange letter after class. No sooner I was to leave the classroom than Li (better not reveal his identity here)ran over and handed me this sheet of paper. Astonished and rather upset at the moment of reading it and I am now still in denial. Mainly ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/16/p22/ Hongxiao(an affectionate form of address to our principal, Literally meaning a principal surnamed Hong.) is definitely a legend, setting a great example for Shanghai voluntary teachers. He is the first elected principal from Shanghai to Yunnan with a three-year contract. Only a man of transcendental love and courage like him ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/15/p20/ The student-hit-teacher incident I heard the day before yesterday was proved last night  by Longxing,  who came to my dorm for a shower and  then we chatted for a while. Naturally, our chitchat is never short of the topic of class teaching. He wanted to be the best teacher, buiding ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/15/p18/ Let me start with my sneakers. Last night, my sneakers came in handy for the first time in Yunnan, and performed very cool—-after being laid idle for over two months. I hadn’t worn them for a single day until then. They, wrapped tight in a plastic bag, would stay inside ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/13/p17/ Just now watched a basketball match between two classes while having my lunch at the canteen doorway. A really close and keen fight. These days witnessed the students’ craziness about the school-organized tournament. Some classes even set up a cheering squad, and in the distance, you could HEAR girls’ loud ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/12/p16/ Felt refreshed after the no-class afternoon spent shopping and having my hair cut. Now I owe my present relaxation mainly to the 2-hour walk. Yes, I spent too much time indoors, either in the classroom or my dorm. Something should change since I felt a little under the weather for ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/10/p15/ My students have been performing much better than before these days. Nothing else can make me feel happier than that, I suppose.Just returned from class,grabbed a bread and I began to recollec some details which I think were worth writing. To activate their enthusiam, I made up loads of mini ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/09/p14/ Today, I bought 10 ball-point pens. Guess what I would do. You’ll never figure it out, for I gave them to my students who failed in the English examination they took 4 days ago. I think I have done something meaningful, of which I am proud .    For the last ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/07/4/ This is a park-alike compus, really gorgeous. Eveyone I suppose would suspect they must have entered a senic resort when coming here for the first time. Really fantastic, with big trees, huge mountains all around, exquisite pavolion,and the MOST magic feel–like you are amounting the highest peak.The first sentence I ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/07/p12/ It was said that this year’s tourism fair was so far the grandest in Honghe’s  history.  We could n’t wait to see it and particularly the famous long-street banquet when we got the news. You could immediatly felt the festival flavour in the air as soon as stepping out ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/07/p11/          Slopes after slopes and bends after bends. A very clean and laid-back place. That is my first-day overall impression on this legedary town. It’s hard to believe there could emerge abruptly a populous community living happily in the middle of nowhere, drowned and nearly secluded in the depth ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/07/p10/ In the 10.1 golden week, we paid a homevisit to a student and took the oportunity to have a good time in Dayangjie–reportedly, one of the five most beautiful ancient villages in China.(stay tuned)  http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/07/p9/ 2006 marks China’s 22nd Teachers’ Day. It is also my 12nd AND probably my most unforgetable one.What I mean by" most unforgetbale" is that I experienced the most unique banquet here in Honghe No.1 high school. As usual, the teachers and staff could possibly recieve some good wishes or ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/06/p8/ Our school canteen rocks!Totally diffrerent from that in Shanghai but it is suprizingly to my taste.  In the morning, I would come with a large bowl of rice noodles. very tasty and cheap, only one yuan. As for lunch and supper, there is large room ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/06/p7/ All the 6 Shanghai teachers live together in a bungalow, which is ideally seated on a secluded corner of the cumpus. We all have our own dorms and the northernmost end is mine, where I could enjoy the most sunshine thanks to the tree-free doorwayThe school was considerate enough to ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/06/p6/ Yisa is the capital of Honghe county, where I am temporally working as an one-year-contract voluntary English teacher.The very first visit to this small moutainous town is so impresssive that it will never escape from my mind in the days to come.After Jianshui(建水县）was a 3-hour-long laborous trek, which should account ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/04/p5/ One oddest thing here in my current school is that almost no students  wear glasses! (Have a look in person here in Honghe No.1 High school and you’ll see what I am talking) I still remember my initial double take at such odd scene during my first class here. But ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/03/p3/ 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 ... http://yunnan.blogsome.com/2006/11/03/p2/