Mianzhu Hanwang: Chronicle of Renai School on June 26 (Ajiaji)

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School events:

1. Thurs­day morn­ing: strong winds and show­ers; cloudy in the after­noon, grad­u­al­ly clear­ing, then grad­u­al­ly rain­ing in the evening. Ear­ly in the morn­ing, Xiaoyi sent anoth­er mes­sage to inform us that eight new uni­ver­si­ty stu­dent vol­un­teers had arrived in Niu­bizi Vil­lage last night, so we would­n’t be need­ed to cov­er for the class.

2. Class­es at Qunx­in Vil­lage School con­tin­ued as nor­mal, includ­ing morn­ing read­ing, cul­tur­al read­ing, lan­guage, music, and com­pre­hen­sive activ­i­ties. Dur­ing morn­ing read­ing, Ajia gath­ered all the chil­dren to recite Jin Bo’s poem “The Lit­tle Deer” and offered a prize: if 10 stu­dents (of all ages) could recite the poem dur­ing morn­ing read­ing, they would be treat­ed to a movie in the after­noon. The chil­dren par­tic­i­pat­ed enthu­si­as­ti­cal­ly, and before the morn­ing read­ing ses­sion was over, 10 stu­dents had suc­cess­ful­ly recit­ed the poem. Teacher Ju Xing shared “Chief Seat­tle’s Man­i­festo,” a pic­ture book about the inte­gra­tion of human­i­ty and nature, with the old­er stu­dents, which was also very effec­tive. Dur­ing the com­pre­hen­sive activ­i­ties class, sev­er­al stu­dents from the “Ren Ai Lit­tle Dra­ma Club” offi­cial­ly per­formed the fairy tale “The Gruffa­lo,” which was also very suc­cess­ful. Today, we have appoint­ed home­room teach­ers for sev­er­al class­es: Ajia for the low­er grades; Qin Ming for the upper grades; and Lin Yiwei for the mid­dle school. We have also announced that we will orga­nize read­ing activ­i­ties for all stu­dents in the com­ing days: sto­ry­telling, fairy tale per­for­mances, and a com­pe­ti­tion for read­ing response works with prizes.

3. Near noon, vol­un­teers from a Shang­hai car club arrived with a batch of wood­en boards, sta­tionery, and toys. The wood­en boards were par­tic­u­lar­ly valu­able, hav­ing been col­lect­ed from var­i­ous sources. Mr. Hao­nan from the Vol­un­teer Cen­ter orches­trat­ed the effort, and a group of anony­mous vol­un­teers dili­gent­ly raised the funds. It was said that these boards were raised with the help of stu­dents from Sichuan Uni­ver­si­ty, pri­mar­i­ly from the grad­u­at­ing class, who donat­ed them for book stor­age. We were tru­ly grate­ful! Now the chil­dren have desks.
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Class­room with wood­en desks

After noon, every­one pre­pared to build desks and a new tent out of planks. Two fel­low vil­lagers vol­un­teered to help, jok­ing­ly call­ing them­selves “vol­un­teers.” Togeth­er, we cleared a new area for the camp­site, weed­ing, burn­ing, and lev­el­ing the ground… This near­ly dou­bled the size of the camp­site. Sev­er­al vol­un­teer teach­ers worked from noon until night, erect­ing a new four-per­son tent (two bed­rooms and a liv­ing room) and re-installing the wood­en desks for the chil­dren. The entire school looked brand new again!
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mow­ing
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Hoe­ing the ground
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igni­tion
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Begin­ning to take shape
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Torch Relay
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Don’t let the fire go out!

In the after­noon, dur­ing our read­ing class, we watched the movie “Char­lot­te’s Web” (played on lap­tops and ampli­fied with small speak­ers). The expe­ri­ence was fan­tas­tic. The chil­dren were cap­ti­vat­ed by this film, adapt­ed from a clas­sic chil­dren’s lit­er­a­ture sto­ry about friend­ship and car­ing for each oth­er.
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Chil­dren watch­ing Char­lot­te’s Web

6. In the after­noon, Sec­re­tary Zhou from Qunx­in Vil­lage came to vis­it us. We gave him a rel­a­tive­ly sys­tem­at­ic intro­duc­tion to the school, explained the dis­ci­pline of the Renai School vol­un­teers, and clar­i­fied some mis­un­der­stand­ings. Sec­re­tary Zhou also high­ly praised and thanked the work of the Renai School and expressed his strong sup­port.

7. A new vol­un­teer joined the class this after­noon. He is Xue Shan­bing, a senior from Chongqing Uni­ver­si­ty of Arts and Sci­ences. He quick­ly inte­grat­ed into the team. He is good at paint­ing and sports and plans to start teach­ing paint­ing tomor­row.

Dur­ing the evening meet­ing, I real­ized I would be leav­ing the school the day after tomor­row to rest in Bei­jing. Sud­den­ly, I felt a pang of sad­ness: such a won­der­ful school, such a won­der­ful group of like-mind­ed com­rades, and such won­der­ful chil­dren. I real­ly don’t want to leave!
A quick record of the Argen­tine Primera División on the night of June 26
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Cel­e­brat­ing the upgrade of the tent to a “two-bed­room, one-liv­ing room”
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An unfor­get­table village—although the nights are not peace­ful (land slides con­tin­ue)