Mianzhu Hanwang: Chronicle of Renai School on June 24 (Ajiaji)

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School events:

Tues­day, anoth­er sun­ny day. Qin Ming, who had returned to Cheng­du for a rest, was bring­ing a new vol­un­teer teacher, Ju Xing, with him, but the morn­ing class would still be split between five teach­ers. We planned to reverse the pre­vi­ous day’s sched­ule, with three teach­ers teach­ing at Niu­bi Vil­lage School first, and then return­ing to Qunx­in Vil­lage School after their class­es. The teach­ers hur­ried­ly fin­ished break­fast and were about to depart when Xiao Yi from the Heart of Chi­na arrived to announce that Niu­bi Vil­lage School need­ed to be reor­ga­nized for the next two days. He explained that three teach­ers from Deyang Jian­ming For­eign Lan­guages, who had vis­it­ed the school the day before, were very dis­sat­is­fied with its cur­rent state, so class­es would be sus­pend­ed for two days. He was also busy orga­niz­ing the open­ing of a new tent school in Qun­li Vil­lage, which was indeed quite demand­ing.

2. Class­es at the Ren’ai School in Qunx­in Vil­lage con­tin­ued as nor­mal, with morn­ing read­ing, mil­i­tary train­ing, music, cul­tur­al read­ing, and Eng­lish sto­ry­telling class­es. Ajia tried teach­ing the old­er stu­dents to sing Li Yu’s “Meiren” dur­ing morn­ing read­ing, and the chil­dren were very inter­est­ed. They plan to con­sid­er bring­ing the mid­dle school stu­dents in tomor­row to learn the song. Teacher Lin Yiwei thor­ough­ly reviewed pre­vi­ous­ly learned poems and clas­si­cal Chi­nese texts with the younger stu­dents and found that the chil­dren had excel­lent mem­o­ry, retain­ing most of them. Dur­ing mil­i­tary train­ing, Instruc­tors Dai and Zhang led the chil­dren in for­ma­tion drills. After sev­er­al days of train­ing, the chil­dren quick­ly got into shape. Since the ground was dry, they also prac­ticed step­ping today. In music class, Teacher Chen Chao had all the chil­dren learn his com­po­si­tion, “Sing If You Want,” which was quite engag­ing. In the cul­tur­al read­ing class, Teacher Lin Yiwei read “Lit­tle Flow­ers on the Barbed Wire” with senior and junior high school stu­dents. This pic­ture book, set in a Nazi con­cen­tra­tion camp dur­ing World War II, aroused great inter­est among the chil­dren. The sto­ry of Rose Blanche left a deep impres­sion on them. In the Eng­lish sto­ry class, Ajia tried to tell the sto­ry of “Green Eggs and Ham” in Eng­lish to the younger chil­dren.
Eggs and
Ham), and found that the chil­dren in the low­er grades here basi­cal­ly had no expe­ri­ence in learn­ing Eng­lish (chil­dren attend­ing Dongqi School were bet­ter), so we main­ly played word pro­nun­ci­a­tion games. For­tu­nate­ly, the sto­ry itself was very inter­est­ing and the chil­dren lis­tened to it very care­ful­ly.
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mil­i­tary train­ing
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Courage is hav­ing the guts to smile fool­ish­ly in front of the instruc­tor dur­ing mil­i­tary train­ing!
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Close-up of Teacher Chen Chao

3. For the after­noon inter­est and read­ing class, the chil­dren had already devel­oped a habit of arriv­ing at the class­room between 1:30 and 2:00 PM, lin­ing up to bor­row books, and then read­ing freely. The pre­vi­ous evening, the teach­ers had rearranged the seat­ing arrange­ments, using a mix of desks and cement blocks in both the senior and junior class­rooms. This elim­i­nat­ed the need for senior stu­dents to “scram­ble” for seats in the junior class­rooms, and pre­vent­ed the juniors from being left with­out seats. After every­one set­tled in, sev­er­al junior stu­dents, par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in per­form­ing, asked Ajia to rehearse. Togeth­er with some young audi­ence mem­bers, they went out­side on the cement plat­form to rehearse two short sto­ries from the com­ic book “The Sto­ry of Afan­ti,” “For­bid­den Food” and “The Archer.” The chil­dren were so impressed by the rehearsal that they could­n’t wait to return and per­form for every­one. So, we returned to the bam­boo for­est and stood in the cen­ter to per­form for every­one. The chil­dren per­formed even bet­ter than in rehearsal. Teacher Chen Chao even impro­vised music for the per­for­mance, which was a fan­tas­tic result. The “Ren Ai Lit­tle The­ater” was estab­lished in this way. The chil­dren were prepar­ing to per­form anoth­er play tomor­row. I rec­om­mend­ed them to per­form “The Gruffa­lo”. Xiao Xian, who per­formed the most out­stand­ing­ly, became their direc­tor and lead­ing actor.
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Indi­vid­ual tutor­ing
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The young actors are rehears­ing seri­ous­ly.
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There are also famous musi­cians impromp­tu accom­pa­ni­ment
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Too involved
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The Eagles were delight­ed
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After school class­room

Today, I arranged a spe­cial les­son for Pan Yuli. We found a pic­ture book with­out a cov­er. It was filled with Dis­ney sto­ries, and Alice in Won­der­land par­tic­u­lar­ly cap­ti­vat­ed her. The book had large print and pinyin. I read it with her page by page, try­ing to point and read, ask­ing her to fol­low along. As long as she rec­og­nized three char­ac­ters on each page, we would move on. She strug­gled at first, but grad­u­al­ly improved. How­ev­er, per­haps due to phys­i­cal rea­sons or habit, she only made it past five pages. Even so, her progress was sig­nif­i­cant, and she could already read sev­er­al sen­tences rel­a­tive­ly com­plete­ly, which is quite a chal­lenge for her. Com­pared to younger chil­dren, her abil­i­ty to com­pre­hend the sto­ry is slight­ly bet­ter, but her abil­i­ty to imi­tate lan­guage is much weak­er. She strug­gles to fol­low along and often has to repeat her­self. I think read­ing to her as often as pos­si­ble is the only way to over­come this dif­fi­cul­ty. Per­haps there is a bet­ter way. I invit­ed all the teach­ers in the school to make time to read to her.

In the after­noon, Xiao Wang, a vol­un­teer from Shang­hai, vis­it­ed the school. He pri­mar­i­ly worked on set­ting up the vol­un­teer infor­ma­tion plat­form. Around 4:00 PM, Qin Ming and Ju Xing arrived togeth­er. They had come with a car from a cycling club, which had col­lect­ed sup­plies for the dis­as­ter area. Every­one was delight­ed to have Qin Ming back and a new vol­un­teer join the team. Just at noon, some chil­dren from the neigh­bor­hood brought in a large grass carp, and we wel­comed them with a braised fish feast that evening. Qin Ming quick­ly got into the swing of things upon his return, and he and Instruc­tor Dai went to a fel­low vil­lager’s house to help set up a shed. He did a fan­tas­tic job.
 
Two days of sun­ny weath­er in a row put every­one in a par­tic­u­lar­ly good mood. The bam­boo for­est offers a spe­cial advan­tage at this time: it’s cool! In the evening, look­ing out at the hori­zon, the sun­set glow is a sign of anoth­er beau­ti­ful day tomor­row!

June 25th morn­ing Argen­tine Primera División record
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The leisure­ly lieu­tenant
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Argen­tine Jia prepar­ing din­ner
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The can­teen is now ful­ly equipped
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This is the restau­rant (also a study room for junior high school stu­dents)
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After-din­ner enter­tain­ment: penal­ty shootout
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This trick is called “Phan­tom Flow”
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The sky is full of col­or­ful clouds
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Very “Impres­sion­ist”