Experience supporting education and witness the power of Beichuan
——Humanities Society2011Beichuan Social Practice in Summer
Reporter: Yang Baixueyu
2011Year7month19Day, Humanities Society2010level Li Liang, Wang Tianyi, Tan Zhenyi, Xie Sisi, Cheng Yanshu, Chen Ran, Xiao Meng, Ma Qianli and Chen Cheng10People followed the "China Heart" volunteer team and finally arrived at Anchang Town, Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County, Sichuan Province after a long journey to make final preparations for their ten-day social practice activities.
The volunteers of the "Heart of China" volunteer group not only come from domestic universities, such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University, Renmin University of China, Shandong University, and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, but also bring together overseas students from the United States, South Korea and other countries. They traveled thousands of miles to Beichuan, where they had experienced life and death disasters. They confidently walked into the elementary w88 casino with simple facilities and began their unforgettable life as a volunteer teacher.
The harder the environment, the stronger the friendship
In the third year after the Wenchuan earthquake, the small town of Anchang in Beichuan has basically completed its reconstruction and restored its former peace and happiness. However, when the volunteers enthusiastically arrived at the teaching site - Anchang No. 2 Primary w88 casino, what they saw was a scene of overgrown grass.
The Anchang No. 2 Primary w88 casino building is old and dilapidated, the girls’ dormitory is in slightly better condition, and the boys live in a temporarily converted classroom30In a dormitory with one person. All the beds are made of plywood. When you turn over during sleep, the bed boards will creak. Moreover, the w88 casino food is only enough to satisfy the hunger. There is no special kettle in the w88 casino, so we can only boil water in a large cooking pot, so there is a layer of oil floating in the bath water. Some volunteers cannot face such difficult conditions and ask to quit, but those of the Humanities Club10All volunteers persisted and bravely faced various difficulties in life.
Among volunteers20People formed a logistics service group, and Tan Zhenyi from the Humanities Society worked in the logistics service group. According to him, the logistics service team is responsible for the meals of all volunteers and students in the w88 casino, so they ride tricycles to the town early every morning to buy vegetables. After returning, they are responsible for cutting vegetables, dividing meals, and washing dishes. The work of washing dishes is arduous and boring, so the volunteers invented a "dish-washing culture" to have fun while washing dishes, telling jokes and singing songs to relieve boredom. The "dish-washing culture" also enabled this group of volunteers from all over the country and foreign countries to quickly form a deep "revolutionary friendship." Qin Zhenyi said that he still keeps in touch with some fellow volunteers, and he still laughs heartily every time he talks on the phone about how he bought vegetables and washed dishes.
Both teaching and being taught
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"The children there are not as pitiful as what we see on TV. They are very strong. One child once told me very proudly during a chat how he directed his family to escape when the earthquake happened, making their family the only surviving family in the whole building. Another child told me,5month12On the night of the Japanese earthquake, they did not feel scared when they took shelter amid the aftershocks. On the contrary, they were very calm and even felt a little excited. The Wenchuan earthquake made these children very strong and admirable. "When Cheng Yanshu said this, tears wet her eyes unconsciously.
Cheng Minshu was mainly responsible for teaching "The Analects of Confucius" in this teaching activity. Before the class started, she made careful preparations and was confident that the children would like her class. However, she was greatly disappointed by the fact that some students started to fall asleep in the first class. It turned out that the students in Beichuan did not have a good foundation in Chinese as she imagined. They did not even understand the meaning of "knowing something is knowing it, not knowing it is not knowing, it is knowing", so the classical Chinese knowledge she taught felt boring. So, she turned to the history teacher who was the most popular among the students. Based on the successful experience of the history teacher, she re-wrote the teaching plan. She no longer taught boring classical Chinese exam-oriented knowledge, but told the students idiom stories, China's top ten filial sons stories and ancient love stories. This transformation immediately created a strong interest in her class. Cheng Yanshu concluded: "If students don't like class, they must look for problems from the teacher himself."
Remember the dead and admire the living
In this social practice activity, the "China Heart" volunteer group not only organized volunteer teaching and home visits, but also organized200Many volunteers went to visit the Beichuan earthquake site.
Along the way, the volunteers laughed and were in high spirits as if they were traveling on a regular basis. They had no special feelings about the earthquake site. However, when everyone entered the ruins, everyone was silent. Some people were shocked by the ruins left by the earthquake, and some were infected by the solemn and silent atmosphere around them. The volunteers stared at the clear water at their feet, and their hearts overflowed with compassion. Being in the desolate ruins and witnessing the irresistible power of nature, the volunteers' awe for life and mourning for the deceased emerged spontaneously. Subsequently, all the volunteers of the volunteer group spontaneously held a moment of silence at the Victims Memorial Square for those who died in the Wenchuan earthquake.
The disaster is gone, the dead rest in peace, and the living are strong. Qin Zhenyi told reporters that he was very moved by the optimistic life attitude of Beichuan people. Every afternoon when the sky gets dark, the men, women and children of Beichuan will gather in the town square or the open space in the village, dance to the music, drink tea and chat, forget their trivial worries and enjoy the comfort of small town life. Beichuan people used the bright sunshine in their hearts to drive away the shadow cast by the disaster.
Ten days have passed by in a hurry, and the volunteers will return home carrying a bag full of memories left to them by Beichuan. In Beichuan, a small town that was reborn after the disaster, the volunteers tasted the ups and downs of life, learned to be optimistic, strong, and courageous to take on responsibilities, and understood the meaning of "hardships bring success". The trip to Beichuan is, as Qin Zhenyi said, "not just a teaching mission", but also a trip of enlightenment, harvest and growth.
