We arrived at our destination: Yixin village, after 1-month preparation, 2-day journey, and 3-hour hilly road and feel some adventures because the road of Yixin village is not flat. However, when we see the beautiful scenery of green hills in rain and excitement of children, our fatigue disappears.
Eastday Hope primary school in Yixin is located conspicuously. Although it is a bungalow, four school buildings are much more beautiful in color compared with farmhouse around. Such feeling of "Never has a poor education, even though we are poor". Schoolmaster Zhang said:"since the hardware of school is very good, many nearby village students also come to here. So there are more than 200 students now, which make small spaces more limited. Teachers both work and live in school". They help us prepare the next-week lessons on weekend. Gradually, we are making friends with them and know many of them are part-time teachers. Their salaries are just 180 Yuan a month.
They are a kind of people who care little about meager income, with less words and more bashful, only say something when refer to their students. Life is pure and simple to them, only school and children meaningful.
To a selfless one, he never considers his benefits and gossip from outside -- we realize the simple reason from teachers that make us calm down our heart. Having prepared lessons for a month, we find it still difficult for us to become qualified teachers.
Tomorrow, we will spread knowledge to students. I hope what we give them is not just goods and materials.
Translated by Ling Limin