It is hard to imagine how many life pursuits, dreams and academic achievements a poor rural housewife in Africa, who is in her thirties and has only one grade of primary school education, has to endure the domestic violence of her husband suffering from AIDS while raising five children. However, Tererai Trent subverts our common sense. The New York Times reported that from June, 5438 to February, 2009, at the age of 44, she received a doctorate in philosophy from western michigan university.

From the primary education level in Africa to the doctor of philosophy in the United States, she has set an eternal example for all students with academic goals in the world: as long as you have a dream and have the eternal internal motivation to realize it, any dream can be realized on today's global stage.

Trey's dream is as simple as her desire for education. 1965 was born in a small village in Zimbabwe and was sent home by his father after only one year of primary school. After all, there is a brother at home, who can earn money for his parents and need to go to school in the future. Why spend tuition on girls who will be kicked out of the house one day?

Cui Yi, who dropped out of school, helped her mother with housework and her father with farm work. After that, he dreamed of going to school at his own small table. And every day after school, Treai can't wait to open his brother's schoolbag, pester him to tell her what he said in class, and then do the homework assigned to him by the teacher on his small desk.

Treai's little desk for homework is still lying on the land of Africa today, because it is just a big stone with a knee-high desktop. Treai wrote down his four dreams on this stone with a small piece of paper-studying abroad and finishing his bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees. Then, according to African tradition, she put the note with these four dreams in a crock and buried it next to the big stone in front of her house.

When Treai's brother always handed in neat homework on time and with good quality, but he couldn't answer the teacher's questions in class, the primary school teacher realized that his sister had been doing his brother's homework.

The primary school teacher begged Treai's father to let her go back to school, but his father was unmoved. 1 1 years old, her father married trey to her husband who had been beating her throughout the marriage. At this moment, the lack of life opportunities makes this girl eager for education one of the 75 million people in developing countries who were abandoned in advance because of poverty.

Time has passed, and more than ten years have passed. The heroine of the story is already a mother of five children, and she is still poor in her thirties. Just as her dream is about to be buried deep in Africa, she is waiting for the moment to change her destiny. A team of volunteers from an international aid organization passed by her village. During the conversation with the women in the village, Cui Yi told Ms. Joe Luck, the chief executive officer of Haifei International, her four dreams. Fortunately, Ms. Joe Lacker did not lightly perform routine work for this housewife with only a first-year education and these four "absurd" dreams. But tell the heroine an inspiring word-as long as you have a dream, you can realize it.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Treai began to work for an international aid organization and saved his salary to study correspondence courses, from primary school to high school. From 65438 to 0998, with the help of international aid organizations, she was admitted to Oklahoma State University as an undergraduate. Going abroad with an acceptance letter is a piece of cake for most China students today, but it is extremely difficult for this African woman.

"I can't leave five children." Cui Yi recalled, "Otherwise, they would probably let their husbands get married casually." In order not to leave her children behind, Cui Yi had to take her husband and seven people to study in the United States. Cattle are sold at home, sheep are sold by neighbors, and 4000 yuan is put in the nearest pocket. Treai's dream of studying in America has finally come true.

Dreams are beautiful, but reality is cruel. Soon, the dream of studying abroad became a nightmare, and the poor life in Africa became American-style poverty. Due to meagre financial assistance, school children and an idle husband, the family was forced to squeeze into a cold and shabby garage. Soon, Trey began to look for food discarded by her neighbors in the trash can in front of her house. The husband vented his dissatisfaction with his fists and feet, and the children were always hungry and cold.

She has to work several jobs, spend all her time studying, get insufficient sleep and endure domestic violence. Although she knows that she carries the expectations of African women and many people who have helped her, Cui can hardly hold on. Fortunately, her kindness and cleverness touched the people around her. Just as Oklahoma State University was about to expel her because she couldn't pay her tuition, a school official personally intervened to mobilize teachers and students to lend a helping hand. The official recalled: "I saw great talent in her." Local charities donate food regularly, and international aid organizations provide rent subsidies. A kind-hearted Wal-Mart employee always carefully puts the fruit that has just expired outside the supermarket for processing. In this way, she realized her two dreams-to study in the United States and complete her bachelor's degree.

If undergraduates are like demons, the master's course can only be worse. When the heroine of the story started her studies at West Michigan State University, she had to face her husband who was deported from the United States because of domestic violence. By this time, her husband had died of AIDS: for nearly a year, Cui Yi took care of her husband who was taken back to the United States from Africa at school until his death.

In this way, Cui Yi used perseverance and wisdom to resist the "high impossibility" in life and realized all his dreams. Since June 2009 165438+ 10, she has become the focus of American media, and came to the most famous daytime talk show Oprah Winfrey Show in America to tell her story to the world.

The current situation of AIDS in the African continent inspired her to finish her doctoral thesis on AIDS prevention in Africa, and she has started to work as a project evaluation expert for international aid organizations that changed her fate. Moreover, she found her love in the process of changing her destiny. She married Mark Trent, a pathologist she met at Oklahoma State University.

Among the hundreds of thousands of doctoral graduates in the United States every year, there is no doubt that Cui Yi is the most dignified. At this moment, Cui Yi may be returning to his home in Zimbabwe, Africa, and digging a clay pot containing four dreams next to his former "desk".

Let's imagine the moment when Terai reopened his dream. I believe that at this moment, she will touch Africa and the world.