Mianzhu Hanwang: Chronicles of Renai School on June 14 and 15 (Ajiaji)

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That day, my feet were deep in the mud…
event:
1. On June 14, Ajia and Lin Yiwei from Bei­jing arrived at the school to replace Inspec­tor Luobo and Xiong Liang and hand over their work.
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They start­ed work­ing in the rain ear­ly in the morn­ing.
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Pre­pare to dig a drainage ditch here
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Let’s get start­ed togeth­er
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Does­n’t seem to have changed much?
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Take a breath and con­tin­ue
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The slip­pers are final­ly going to be reim­bursed: (
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Let’s have some fun first
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Oh my God, is there real­ly no way?

On June 14th, heavy rain caused sig­nif­i­cant dam­age to the camp, pri­mar­i­ly due to the mud­dy ground, leak­ing vol­un­teers’ tents, and the upper pad­dy fields threat­en­ing to over­flow and even sub­merge the school. We worked togeth­er to find a solu­tion. Three vet­er­an vol­un­teers from the Cheng­du Vol­un­teer Cen­ter arrived. Although we had pre­vi­ous­ly men­tioned this, we were unable to arrange for them, and we made it clear that we could not accom­mo­date them. How­ev­er, these three vol­un­teers nonethe­less joined in on the work to revamp the camp. They clear­ly pos­sessed greater expe­ri­ence, and after half a day of work­ing in the rain, they tem­porar­i­ly alle­vi­at­ed the three afore­men­tioned issues. How­ev­er, the heavy rains over the next few days will undoubt­ed­ly cause fur­ther prob­lems. There­fore, we invit­ed two of these vol­un­teers to stay and join the team.
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Let’s hang up the nation­al flag first to boost morale!
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Fresh blood is com­ing!
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Try lay­ing some straw.
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The vet­er­an seems to be help­less.
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Obvi­ous­ly to no avail
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Even the lieu­tenant was at a loss.
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Don’t wor­ry about so much, just be hap­py first!
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Put up the awning quick­ly, it is more impor­tant than any­thing else!
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And more impor­tant­ly — make a bowl of instant noo­dles. I haven’t had hot water for days!

3. June 15th was a sun­ny morn­ing, but the bam­boo for­est base of Ren’ai School in Qunx­in Vil­lage was extreme­ly mud­dy. We dis­cussed with the local teacher, Mr. Xiong (tem­po­rary prin­ci­pal), and decid­ed to sus­pend class­es for a day to thor­ough­ly repair the base and see if it could be main­tained regard­less of weath­er con­di­tions.
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The next day we came up with anoth­er idea.
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But it seems that no prob­lem has been solved
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Nine Arti­cles of Agree­ment

On the morn­ing of June 15th, Ajia, Lin Yiwei, and Zhao Tiezhu first went to the tem­po­rary pri­ma­ry school in Niu­bi Vil­lage, Renai School, to see if class­es could be held. They found it also mud­dy, but the ground there was open, mak­ing it eas­i­er to divert the water. They then asked three more vol­un­teers to go there and raise the class­rooms to divert the water. After a morn­ing of hard work, the class­rooms at that pri­ma­ry school were basi­cal­ly acces­si­ble regard­less of weath­er.
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In the morn­ing, the project start­ed at the Niu­bi Vil­lage School.
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The basic idea is to fill the ground with bricks and stones and raise it a lit­tle
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There’s too much water inside!
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Niu­bi Vil­lage School Tem­po­rary Con­struc­tion Team (chil­dren also par­tic­i­pat­ed!)
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Is this wash­ing hands?
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Haha, hav­ing a water fight!
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The kids had a blast too.

At noon on June 15th, with the help of Teacher Xiong, we had locals bring in two trac­tors of coal ash from a bridge about 5 kilo­me­ters away. Then every­one worked togeth­er to pave the grounds with coal ash. Work­ing until almost 8 p.m., we final­ly cov­ered the entire grounds with a thick lay­er of red coal ash. Renai School had become a red school!
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Qunx­in Vil­lage School Ren­o­va­tion Project
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Acci­den­tal­ly, a heart shape was cre­at­ed!
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Does it look like the “Red Mud Vil­lage”?
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At around 9 p.m. on June 15th, heavy rain fell again. This time, the ground at the base with­stood the test, but the tar­pau­lin awning we had set up the day before leaked again, and the vol­un­teers’ tents were once again exposed to the rain.
Vol­un­teer com­po­si­tion:
Ajia and Lin Yiwei are from Bei­jing; Zhao Tiezhu, Yu Xiaowen, and four oth­ers were rec­om­mend­ed by the Cheng­du Vol­un­teer Cen­ter; and Dai Xip­ing and Zhang Jun, both vet­er­ans, came on their own (also from the Cheng­du Vol­un­teer Cen­ter). All vol­un­teers have skills and can teach rel­e­vant cours­es, includ­ing two vet­er­ans. We plan to invite them to help with intro­duc­to­ry mil­i­tary train­ing to strength­en the chil­dren’s sense of dis­ci­pline and pro­vide appro­pri­ate phys­i­cal exer­cise class­es. Ajia is cur­rent­ly in charge.
Urgent­ly need­ed sup­plies
1. We urgent­ly need col­ored strips of cloth or rain­proof cloth that can real­ly block out the rain, oth­er­wise the vol­un­teer tents will not be able to with­stand the rain;

2. We urgent­ly need cook­ing uten­sils and table­ware to facil­i­tate cook­ing at the base. Oth­er­wise, the vol­un­teers at the base will have to rely on min­er­al water and dry food to sur­vive.

3. Three mois­ture-proof mats and four thin blan­kets or sleep­ing bags are urgent­ly need­ed. The base is very cold at night, and sev­er­al vol­un­teers are not ful­ly equipped and can only hud­dle togeth­er to keep warm.
On the morn­ing of June 16, the Argen­tine Primera División
The bat­tery is run­ning out, so I wrote this down in a hur­ry.
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At dusk, it looks like it’s going to rain again :(
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Tonight, I’m going to soak in the water again!