This is what a volunteer said.
Jin Mingchun, a middle school teacher. He responded to the great call of the CPC Central Committee for counterpart support in the western development and signed up to teach in Shandong. I have been teaching for two years from the east of Shandong to the distant Xinjiang. Like Xu Benyu, a volunteer who supports the west, he was born in a rural family in Liaocheng, Shandong. Liaocheng is also the hometown of Kong Fansen, a Tibetan aid cadre. Perhaps coincidentally, many volunteers have sprung up in northwest Shandong.
Clouds and moons are eight thousand miles away.
At first, when Jin Mingchun learned that he was going to teach in Xinjiang, he made a decision in his heart. This is an opportunity to exercise yourself and serve the motherland. However, I still have one of the biggest concerns in my heart. Father is seriously ill, which is really worrying. He told his father about his plan to sign up for Xinjiang and asked his father for advice. His father encouraged him and said, "Go! I'm fine. Don't worry about me. Besides, isn't there your mother and your brothers at home? " His family supported him very much, and after a hard ideological struggle, he finally signed up. He was about to leave when someone advised him that what do you want to do in such a far place, and there is not much money. Who doesn't care about money now, who will make such selfless dedication? That is, in his unit, when he went to teach in Xinjiang, many people were transferred to places with higher wages and better conditions, but he chose to help Xinjiang, choose poverty and hardship, choose loneliness and choose dedication.
After more than 60 hours of turbulence, he crossed 8,000 miles of clouds and the moon, and crossed Qian Shan, and he deeply realized what remoteness is. The train is heading northwest. His heart is always beating with concern for his parents. Thinking of his parents and wife made him feel guilty and moved. Entering the Hexi Corridor, it is already covered with yellow sand and the fields are vast. The vast desert is lonely, and the Yellow River sets the yen. On the Gobi Desert, camel grass is almost the only life and the only green. Camel grass is like a camel trekking in the desert Gobi. He seems to hear the bell of life. Gobi is arid and barren, and nothing grows. The remains of the ancient Great Wall are touching. He lay quietly, silently waiting for desolation under the golden light of the sunset. It stood tall in those days, but now it has become low and decadent after the erosion of wind and rain. But he vaguely felt that it was still jingling. On both sides of the railway, artificial grass-crossing nets will catch the surrounding sand. Small shrubs and low weeds in the sand are so stubborn and kind. Whistling past, this is how mainlanders feel about trains. At this time, it crawled on the desert Gobi, just like a long bug.
At the foot of Tianshan Mountain, the distant homesickness.
Xinjiang arrived, and at this time, his heart ached faintly. Perhaps it is blood and kinship that can produce feelings, and there is always a trace of sadness in his heart. Because he didn't have a mobile phone at that time, communication was inconvenient. He stayed on the train for three days and nights. He has just come to Xinjiang and is not familiar with Xinjiang. His family didn't know where he was assigned and couldn't contact him. When he finally found a public phone to call home, he realized that his father had been dead for many days and was approaching the day of his father's funeral. At that time, his brain went blank, and then grief overwhelmed him. What shall we do? Xinjiang is so far away from Shandong that we are nervous to go back, but we still took a two-hour bus ride to Urumqi to buy a plane ticket. When he called home again, his family told him that Xinjiang was so far away from Shandong that even if he came back by plane, he would have to take a long bus, and he couldn't catch his father's funeral when he got home. At this time, he deeply felt how far he had come, and he was miserable and helpless. In addition, his work has been arranged, and it will only take about a week to go back and forth. Going back will inevitably affect his work, and there will be many days when students have no teachers to attend classes. The family called to tell him that Xinjiang is so far away from Shandong that there is no need to worry about things at home. Family makes him want to go home strongly, and as a teacher who helps Xinjiang, he should focus on his work, and choosing to help Xinjiang means choosing dedication. He can only see his father off in Tianshan Mountain and send his father's soul to heaven with the snow lotus in Tianshan Mountain.
So far, he can't imagine what kind of predicament he experienced at that time. His relatives are sick and he is not around, and he can't die for him when his relatives die. This will be his lifelong regret and anxiety. He turned grief into strength, guilt for his loved ones into strength, and worked crazily. Maybe this is the only way to reduce the pain. My father liked reading before he died. Going home on vacation, he knelt at his father's grave, took out an article published in the newspaper and put it on the fire. Father, did you see that? This is the newspaper I sent to heaven, so let it accompany you!
Ji Qing Ran Shao De Sui Yue
It is difficult to get tickets every time. Once, I didn't book a berth ticket, but I had to buy a seat ticket in order to arrive in Xinjiang in time. From Jinan to Lanzhou in the past two days, the carriages were crowded and it was difficult to walk from the seat to the toilet. Sometimes the toilets are full and you can't go to the toilet at all. I have to eat and drink less in order not to go to the toilet as much as possible. There are so many people in my seat that I can't rest for nearly two days. I was almost nervous at that time.
In addition to completing his own teaching work, he was also selected into the new curriculum reform group to study, improve and explore the new curriculum reform. Every night, he goes to the office to prepare lessons, tutor students and correct homework. In his spare time, he wrote a large number of teaching papers and published them in major newspapers and periodicals all over the country. Actively do a good job in the temporary assignment of the school, such as being on duty on holidays and being on duty in the dormitory every week. Actively participate in various voluntary labor organized by the school, such as supporting the farm to pick cotton for two weeks and planting trees. , actively participated in funding school infrastructure and participated in donation activities for many times. Every donation activity, his colleagues advised him that volunteers don't have to donate, and working in the west is a kind of dedication, but he still actively donated money in his modest way. On one occasion, the school raised funds to build a school building, although it was voluntary, and the aided teachers were not included in the school staff establishment, so there was no need to raise funds at all. But he wanted to help teachers in Xinjiang to support the west in all aspects, so he called his wife and asked her to remit some money. His wife joked that people were sending money to their families outside, but you asked them to send money to you. The wife understands her husband very well, and soon, the wife remitted the money. Once, he went to the private house shared by students and saw that the students' dinner was just a bag of instant noodles. When I visited the students, the road under my feet was winding and rugged, and the exposed sharp stone stung my feet. He asked the students, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" The student said, "Out of the mountain." He asked, "What do you do after school? What extracurricular books do you usually read? " Students say they don't read extracurricular books. "Why?" "No books to read." He saw the students' home: some rotten wood propped up some tarpaulins with holes, which became the ceiling, the rafters were covered with cobwebs, and there were many cloaks of rice grains in the corner of the room, but they were almost empty. Life is extremely difficult. His heart was shocked and he made up his mind to do something for these students. Under the same blue sky, we have different lives. In the endless mountains, poverty has killed many children's dreams of reading. As volunteers who shoulder the mission of helping the poor and teaching, it has always been their heavy responsibility and concern to let the fire of hope ignite and pass on. It is too difficult for children here to go to school. A passion I have never had before, an impulse to give myself, came to me. At that time, he silently said in his heart that he must do his best to make every child smile more beautifully.
Kites fly in the desert.
Yimajiang, a Uighur student in my class, is very tall, with big eyes and long eyelashes. She looks very energetic. Ma Jiang is clever, but a little tired of learning. At the weekend, I decided to visit a family in Ma Jiang.
One Ma Jiang's parents have gone to work in the city, and there is only one Ma Jiang's grandfather at home. The old man is over seventy, but his back is strong. The old man has a fair face and bright eyes.
I sat in the yard with the old man. Old people do not have the insatiable desire of city dwellers, nor do they have the impetuousness and melancholy of city dwellers. The old man's eyes are so calm and his expression is so confident. 1. Ma Jiang's family is poor, and the tuition fee is reduced. Ma Jiang is a resident student. Recently, I have been absent-minded in my studies and homesick. The old man listened, pondered for a long time, stood up and took a kite from the wall.
The old man asked Ma Jiang how he felt when he saw the desert. Yimajiang said that the desert is deserted and empty. Not far from the village is a desert. When we came to the desert, the old man began to fly kites, and the kites flew. As the kite is in the desert, it is no longer empty. When kites fly in the desert, the sky becomes lively. The old man looked at the blue sky and asked Ma Jiang, "What about now?" Ma Jiang stared at the kite flying in the sky and made no answer. I understood grandpa Ma Jiang's good intentions and inspired Ma Jiang: "Is it better to be a kite hanging on the wall at home or a kite flying in the sky?" Yima Ming Jiang knows that he should concentrate on his studies in the future. The old man handed the kite to Ma Jiang, Ma Jiang held it high, and Ma Jiang had a bright smile on his face.
The first snow in 2002
Winter in Xinjiang is particularly long, snowy and cold. Get up in the morning, the window glass is full of ice flowers. This is the most beautiful gift from God to Xinjiang in winter, and it is also the most Leng Yan gift. In winter, I am a painter, using the purest colors and choosing transparent "drawing paper" to draw the most beautiful pictures. Cold is approaching the classroom. A girl named Mina is particularly beautiful. Her eyes are big and bright, and her eyelashes are long and black. But it is on this beautiful face that there are two lines of clear water flowing under her nose. She erased and flowed out, flowed out and erased, erased and flowed out. Jin Mingchun found that the clothes she was wearing were too thin. It's strange that she didn't freeze in so little clothes on such a cold day! "Why are you wearing so little?" He asked. She said, "Nothing!" Mina's deskmate told him that Mina's home is hundreds of miles away from school. Because of the sudden cold weather, she didn't bring much winter clothes and didn't have time to send them at home. She is poor and has no money to buy them. He looked at Mina, a beautiful Uighur girl, in cold weather, which reminded him of the blooming snow on the snowy mountain. Leng Yan is very strong. When he gave her the down jacket he bought, she said in Uyghur, "Thank you, Teacher Jin!"
In Xinjiang, it will snow heavily in winter. Almost every four or five days. After a heavy snow, the trees turned white, the ground turned white, and a clean and white world appeared. Snow is dancing, making the sky full of movement. Snowflakes fly and then embrace the earth.
He often participates in charitable donations and silently helps poor students. Broad love and dedication. In order to express his love for the people in the disaster area, he took the initiative to donate money to the earthquake-stricken areas and poverty-stricken areas. He is often concerned about helping poor students. He often talks with students to learn about their study and life. In the conversation with students, he learned that a classmate's family was very difficult, and tuition and living expenses were not guaranteed, so he took the initiative to subsidize the student. Jin Mingchun was rated as an excellent teacher in Xinjiang and an excellent counselor in chemistry competition. The content he explained in class is vivid, not limited to textbooks, which makes the originally boring classroom very vivid. While imparting knowledge, he also teaches students learning methods and cultivates students' ability of observation and exploration. Self-reliance and initiative. He is strict with himself at all times, actively demands progress in thought, unites colleagues, respects leaders, treats people sincerely and courteously, and is widely welcomed by everyone. His articles published in newspapers and magazines are very popular with teachers and students. Many students exchanged writing knowledge with him, and the Chinese teacher specially invited him to give students writing lessons.
Returning to Xinjiang to teach with injuries.
In the winter vacation of 2002, he had an unfortunate car accident on the road. The day of leaving Xinjiang is getting closer and closer, and his injury is still not healed. Wrist fracture needs a long time to recover. The doctor advised him to go to work for more than a month, but he didn't want to delay his work. Choosing to aid Xinjiang is choosing to pay. Before his injury healed, he could hardly move his left hand, so he took the train to the west and ran to Xinjiang. Because the fracture is not completely healed, the left hand can't move and exert itself, so I encounter many difficulties in my life. If one hand can't wash clothes, wash them with one hand. In this way, it was really a challenge for him to persist for nearly a month, but he persisted.
Far away, miss. Distant, concerned. After coming to Xinjiang, one day, he received a parcel from his wife, and opened it. It contained a dozen pairs of socks and some underwear. He just needs these things, because he can't use force when his left hand is injured and he can't wash clothes with one hand. Now he's all right. If he gets dirty, he will change for a new one. "Why do you send so many socks and underwear?" He called to ask her. She said, "You can't wash clothes with one hand, but what if the clothes are dirty?" He thought about it all night and came up with such a method. He changed it when it was dirty, so ... until his hands were ready to wash clothes. "
Mount Tai and Wan Li in Tianshan Mountain are far away, but he can still feel the warmth of his family. Love is mutual concern, love is so deep, love is lingering, love is unforgettable. Years, sunshine, wind and rain, rainbow, there is a sun in the sky, which always gives them warmth. There is a moon in the sky, which always warms them.
The study and working conditions here are difficult. The tape recorder needs several teachers to share, and the experimental class needs several classes to attend together. These children are diligent, and the children here are simple. Because of the dry climate here and his many classes, his voice is often hoarse. Students see him screaming at the top of their lungs to give them lessons. Those who don't obey will stop making trouble in class and listen quietly.
The students said, "Teacher, I am very grateful to you. I will remember your teachings and study hard to live up to your expectations." "Teacher, it is your smile that helps me embark on the journey; it's you
Your concern has helped me through the ups and downs. Happy new year, teacher. All my wishes have come true! "……
There is a spirit called persistence: persistence in dedication to youth, persistence in dedication to passion, and persistence in doing something unforgettable for two years.
He supported western education with sincerity and attracted children's curious eyes with lively and active thinking. I often discuss teaching with teachers. In the teaching competition for young teachers, a physics teacher talked about mechanics, and he planned the teaching design for the physics teacher. Among them, he proposed to use the national anthem to guide the classroom. When the Olympic flag was raised and the national anthem was played, it was the athletes who made great efforts to win glory for their country. This is regarded as the biggest highlight of the class when the judges evaluate it. In addition, his ideas for other teachers also add a lot of color to the speech contest.
Tagore once said that there are no traces in the sky, but we have already flown. There is a harvest that is priceless. As a volunteer, although he doesn't have a generous salary (we only have a living allowance from the state), he has the confidence and courage to face these. He left the comfortable city life and took the initiative to serve in poor areas. Aid Xinjiang, nameless and unprofitable. Even being laughed at as a fool.
Desert camel
For a camel, it is a sacred and admirable creature in his mind. Trekking in the vast desert, not afraid of hardships, willing to contribute. When he saw the camel from a distance, he felt a sense of intimacy. But when he approached it, what he saw broke his heart. It seems to play a tragic role, pieces of hair are falling off, and bloodshot is faintly exposed on mottled skin. Mouth open, chin drooping, out of breath. This is the ship in the desert? A man standing next to him said, "Camels are the stupidest animals." "Why?" He asked. "That will only be passive patience. Give it a heavy load and it can bear it. It is willing to eat thorns and bitter weeds that most mammals refuse to eat. It is willing to drink salty dirty water. It can run for three days and three nights without drinking water and trudge in obscurity. " Looking at the camel, his heart is heavy. A long way to go, dedication. This should be a compliment to you. Are these all buried deep in the desert? He looked at the desert, speechless. He looked at the camel, which was speechless.
"Where are you from?" The man asked.
He said, "Shandong."
"Are you here to travel or to explore?"
"I am a teaching assistant."
The man looked at him like a monster and muttered, "Is there such a person now?"
He looked at the camel and said to the man, "Have you seen this camel? It's stupid, but the desert needs it. I am like a camel. "
Yes! In today's era when everyone is looking at money, it is really hard to understand that a person abandons the superior environment, chooses the hard place and makes selfless dedication silently.
Because he is far away from home, the pain of missing and loneliness afflicts him. Especially on holidays, it is even more difficult. In the days of SARS epidemic, once students have a fever or a cold, teachers are very worried. Check whether the students' body temperature is normal in the morning and evening of those days. Once you find that your body temperature rises, you are very anxious. Several times in the evening, the student caught a cold and had a fever. He was sent to the hospital with several teachers. Due to inconvenient transportation and difficult roads, it is common to walk on the road for an hour or two.
Shandong is far from Xinjiang. It's really unbearable to travel alone after three days' train ride. Once I sat on the train for three days without buying a berth ticket. I was really sleepy and sat down and fell asleep. The hard-seat car is crowded and crowded. It is difficult to go to the toilet, even the toilet is crowded with passengers. In order to reduce the frequency of going to the toilet, we have to eat less and drink less.
Prospects of Tianshan Mountain and Mount Tai
Not for fame and fortune, away from family. The burden of the family fell on his wife alone, and she suffered a lot for it.
Loneliness. There is no TV to watch here. But he remembers the oath of volunteers: try your best to help others and serve the society for free. Snow-capped mountains, grasslands, Gobi, deserts, ancient cities, towns ... There are too many beautiful scenery in the west, which is a paradise written by tourists, but it is not poetic to integrate into this environmental life. In this beautiful or barren natural environment, in this hard area, we should not only have good physical quality to adapt to the water and soil in the service area, but also have enough psychological quality to bear the pressure of not being understood. Be prepared to enjoy loneliness alone. Volunteer work units in service places are scattered, and the distance between towns and counties is different from that in the mainland, with a long distance and inconvenient transportation. Because there are few people here, I didn't meet many people on the road. After living and working with ethnic minorities, people who don't know the language and know Chinese will feel lonely. People in downtown areas pursue a moment of peace and enjoy loneliness. In the sparsely populated west, there is emptiness and silence everywhere. After all, people are social animals, so we should learn to get rid of loneliness.
There is a kind of life, you don't know the hardships without experiencing it; There is a kind of bitterness, you don't know happiness without experience; There is a kind of happiness, and only when you have it can you know its purity. For volunteers, two years of teaching in the west is two years of paying and two years of harvesting. He hopes that more people can pay attention to the children here. After all, people are full of energy. I remember Kong Fansen once said: The highest level of a person's love is to love others.
10 is the cotton harvest season in Xinjiang, and the school supports the farm to pick cotton for more than ten days. Teachers and students live in a simple shed with firewood on the ground and their beds. At night, mice and bugs often visit their "beds", scaring the students to cry and scream. They got up to drive away the mice and comfort the students. I walked from the station for half an hour before dawn, and then I came to the cotton field. I couldn't see the cotton field on the side, and it was a vast expanse of whiteness and an ocean of flowers. Eat the rice from the canteen at noon. When the wind blows, a layer of sand often floats in the rice. Sitting in the cotton field, eating dry food and drinking cold boiled water, I thought: No matter how tired and bitter, I can't scream. I am a volunteer, and I can't embarrass the volunteers. After two years in Zhibian, Xinjiang, those days of wind and sand tempering seemed to disappear as soon as he turned around, leaving only rougher skin and more speechless silence than before. ......
Down-to-earth, teaching and educating people, although I had planned to suffer hardships before I left, I was still at a loss after I entered Xinjiang. Facing the majestic snow-capped mountains, the vast Gobi desert, the vast grasslands, the white sheep and the galloping horses, my excitement gradually cooled down. In this beautiful land, what grows is not wealth, but heartbreaking poverty and backwardness. Due to the vast territory, sparse population and inconvenient transportation, many areas, especially remote ethnic areas, can hardly be compared with the mainland. He used his spare time and extracurricular activities to organize students to attend lectures, talk to students individually, tell them stories about scientists, discuss the relationship between science and human beings, tell them about the wonderful outside world, and tell them that the main reason for backwardness lies in the backwardness of education, so that they can first connect with mainland students ideologically, set lofty learning goals, and realize the importance and necessity of cultural knowledge. He starts with the most basic classroom routine and takes cultivating students' interest in learning as the starting point. As an aid worker in Xinjiang, he deeply knows that it is not difficult to simply do his own teaching work well. Our mission is to promote further exchanges between the East and the West and do our part for the prosperity of the motherland.
The cold and dry climate is a great test for him. When I first arrived in Xinjiang, my lips were chapped, my nose was bleeding, I couldn't open my eyes, and I cried from time to time, which made me feel overwhelmed and miserable. Overcome one difficulty after another with tenacious perseverance, devote yourself wholeheartedly to the cause of education in the western region, always take Comrade Kong Fansen as an example, and keep in mind your mission and responsibility.
Diligent dedication, willing to be lonely
Dedication is the main theme of voluntary service. Tired, sometimes not afraid of the opposite. What I fear most is loneliness and boredom. Especially on weekends, facing the eternal wasteland, sometimes it is really lonely. In the west, especially in Xinjiang, the land is vast and the population is sparse, so it is normal to see a person for a few hours. The west is desolate. When we first arrived in the west, we were glad to see rows of trees. In the west, due to historical and practical reasons, especially inconvenient geographical conditions, people in most areas still live below the poverty line. From the coast to the frontier, he not only experienced the change of natural environment, but also experienced the change of ideology. Volunteers who join the West are called "the second batch of fools in 2 1 century". Even when I was about to step on the train, many people still didn't understand my behavior. Experience, experience strong wind, experience heavy rain, experience loneliness, experience loneliness. Walking alone on the path always seems a bit bleak. If he chose the west, he chose dedication. He was rated as an excellent counselor in the chemistry competition and an excellent Shandong aid teacher in Xinjiang.
Touching Xinjiang
I will leave Xinjiang where I have worked for two years. Students are unwilling to go. Some students said, "I'm going to apply for a university in the mainland, but I'll see you later." In the farewell message, there is a lot of gratitude and a lot of disappointment.
Jin Mingchun's two-year aid to Xinjiang is over. At the farewell party, the teachers were reluctant to part, yes! In two years, they have established a deep affection. The teachers sang in songs and dances written and performed by themselves:
Jaxy, Jaxy,
Jaxy, a teacher in Xinjiang.
Two years to ocean deep.
Next spring, Miss Jaxy.
The snow in Tianshan Mountain is clear and pure.
The snow lotus in Tianshan Mountain is really beautiful.
He believes that the gains from teaching in the west far outweigh the losses. Life is full of love, friendship and emotion, and the children have given him a lot of happiness and pride.