-6.7.2018
The children in the mountains, they’re in poor condition, they’ve got nothing.
But there’s not a hint of impurity in them.
Just passed two kids playing in an abandoned car.
Not shy at all, smiling at me.
They asked me, “Who are you?
I said: I’m the new teacher at the school.
They smiled at me again.
I said, “When are you coming to school? I’ll teach you”.
They looked at me for a moment and laughed: we’re not going to make it!
I said: “why”?
They didn’t say a word, and seeing their dirty little faces, not being able to see the original color, with a big slit on the bottom half of the dress, I realized how stupid my question was.
I asked: want to go to school?
They say, “Better have fun!
I don’t know what to say, I looked into my bag and found a chocolate that was supposed to be left for the child I was going to visit in the afternoon, who was growing her own food and her father’s salary had to support three people.
I broke a piece of it and gave it to them both, and they put it in their mouths without the slightest hesitation and looked at me and laughed again.
I laughed, too. I said, “I’ll see you later“.
And they smiled at me again, and waved at me.
When I turned around, I heard them say “bye” behind me again.
I turned my head and smiled, turned around and walked back in my direction, and stopped smiling.
Now I especially regret it. Why didn’t I give them a whole bar of chocolate?
It’s not enough. There are so many kids.
I’ll give you all the chocolate I have.
-6.10.2018
The kids seem so happy.
What makes the kids in the mountains especially happy is that they don’t even know what they’re missing, and they can even play with plum kernels.
How I want to keep them happy now.
A little girl was isolated because she lost her best friend’s three RMB (0.5 dollar) and was too afraid to ask her father for it. I bought her four ice popsicles and only ate one, leaving the rest for her younger brother. She got up at 5:30 every morning because it was an hour’s trip to across the mountain to school.
The principal’s son, when I said warm up the meal, grabbed the spatula out of my hand and started frying. When he went home, sat down next to his mother and started picking vegetables immediately.
I asked the kids do they want to play computer games, they so happy that their hands were shaking. Every day, they pick us a bunch of wild fruits, one time he’d catch crabs, the other time he’d catch shrimp for us.
And then there’s the little boy, whose grandmother used to have no light at home, but often didn’t finish his homework when it was dark. In the end, his eyes were nearsighted at over 700 degrees.
Some of the children’s mothers and fathers aren’t there anymore, and they’re just farming with their grandmothers for a living, and some of their fathers are disabled and have to take care of themselves and their fathers.
But they didn’t think they were living in a bad situation, they didn’t think they were unhappy, they didn’t know there are kids’ lives can be simple and easy.
But we know what they might face in the future, what they need now, and we should do something about it.
Since we can see, we should do something. Even a little bit can change a lot.
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