52 days and nights of a student in a disaster area
Wang Lei
2008-07-06
Before entering the examination room, Zhang Jingxian was confident that he could prove himself.
In tent school, students struggle for their ideals.
You can only take a shower once a week, and you have to wait in line.
Killing mosquitoes has become bedtime entertainment.
I was ecstatic to get the exam pencil.
From earthquake to college entrance examination
52 days and nights of a student in a disaster area
Reporter Lu Zheheng Photography Li Jiangang from Deyang, Sichuan
During this month and a half, she learned how to shoot mosquitoes to death in the dark, how to reinforce tents in heavy rain, how to put in washing powder to clean a bucket of clothes, and how to prevent sleepiness from tripping over her heels when going to the toilet in the middle of the night.
Before, she only knew that Voltaire's plaster model was difficult to draw, and she always couldn't grasp the light and shade that reflected emotions. The pencil belly was too thin and easy to break. She can definitely go to the Fine Arts Education Department of Sichuan Normal University, as long as she studies math hard.
What happened to Zhang Jingxian, a senior three art class in Nanxuan Middle School, is far more than that. She changed from a little girl to an adult, "grown up." She summed it up herself.
Dad said: Be strong.
The teaching building of Nanxuan Middle School stood the test of the earthquake and did not collapse. A week later, Zhang Jingxian and her classmates were sent to hengshan road Middle School in Deyang City, where they have been living in tents.
"My dad told me to be strong, then turned around and left." Zhang Jingxian knew that his father had to take care of the employees in the enterprise, but it was still difficult to accept the fact that he was not with his family at the most critical time. Before coming to Deyang, my father only came back twice, and his face was flushed every time.
The heavy rain and aftershocks made Zhang Jingxian and his mother huddle in the tent, and the king returned-column-American journalists were shocked by China. I wonder if they admire or tremble! ... the home is gone, and the memory of 18 years of life is buried under the rubble.
Time began to warp. It felt like years at that time. I watched the hands of my watch move, but I couldn't understand the change of light and shade alternating day and night. I feel fast when I am aware of it, just like the picture taken by a slow camera: clouds fly by and it is a day when I look up. At that time, she had only one HB pencil at hand. She tried several times to draw the memories in her mind, but she couldn't find the paper.
This trance-like state made Zhang Jingxian feel dangerous, a danger of being slowly corroded. Her father bowed his head and told her to be strong.
Life in a tent
After coming to Deyang, life showed a relatively normal state, and everyone began to remember their identity. It turns out that everyone still has to take the college entrance examination, go to college, work and buy their own houses.
Life will not be interrupted. Now, the blue tent is your home.
Zhang Jingxian and five other girls were assigned to a tent mm, and she was lucky. There are at most eight people living in the tent. Even so, when she laid the three-layer mat, she smelled a musty smell. At that time, it was the rainy season in Sichuan, and there was thick water vapor in the basin on weekdays, not to mention that God always dripped like a colander. Sitting in a tent, the lens will be covered with a layer of fog from time to time, even if it is exquisite.
Rectangular tents are neatly arranged on the playground, like a grid. After the concrete floor absorbs heat during the day, it spits out all the hot air at night. Hot air with moisture rose on the ground and came out from under the tent, covering Zhang Jingxian and her classmates. The skin is always sticky and slippery. Even if the temperature is very low, when the body feels slightly cold, tiny sweat will still ooze from the pores and stick long hair to the face.
When it rains heavily, the tent will make strange sounds in the strong wind, and raindrops will hit it, as if firecrackers would explode. Water will gather quickly, and everyone will be like lying in a river, and plastic slippers will float like buoys to mark the water level. Zhang Jingxian has learned to hook his feet and put shoes on his feet at the right time, which is very effective. Students who haven't learned can only wait until dawn to find shoes at the foot of the wall.
Even in the best weather, Zhang Jingxian still has to fight mosquitoes. It seems that this is a war that can never be won. Because there is no electricity in the tent, there is no electric mosquito killer, no lights, and no open flames. There is no better way than listening to the sound. When the drowsiness after reading 10 hours a day is disturbed by a buzzing mosquito, you can imagine how short of breath it is.
Killing mosquitoes often turns into collective relaxation in the end, and the girls finally fall asleep laughing and sweating. They couldn't sleep for hours, and as soon as the sun came out the next day, the tent was as hot as a boiler.
Even so, everyone never thought of sleeping in the classroom. For them, the building is a symbol of danger, and no one dares to gamble his life.
Prove yourself
Life in the tent is probably like this. Their toenails are covered with dirt that is difficult to clean, and their fingers are always covered with indelible ink. For Zhang Jingxian, her appearance is really frustrating, including that she can only take a bath once a week, and only by turning on the tap can she know whether it is hot water or cold water.
However, their minds are more focused on their studies. For Zhang Jingxian, there is a driving force to support her. The driving force comes from many aspects, which is not clear, but in the end, the gathered strength can be felt, and she is almost pushed forward.
"I think this is a huge change," she said. "I have become incredible."
Zhang Jingxian's ideal is to be an art teacher. The ideal school is Sichuan Normal University. She was depressed because she didn't draw for more than a month. When the teacher handed out pencils for the exam, she felt "ecstatic" after smelling the pine fragrance of the pencils.
Before entering the examination room, Zhang Jingxian was full of confidence: "No problem, I can prove myself."
Everyone is proving himself, in the face of this disaster, in the face of parents' expectations, in the face of many loving eyes, in the face of secrets hidden in the deep heart.
No matter what the result is, this process of proof can already get high marks.
Reporter's notes
Because of this disaster
Dreams become more urgent.
Reporter Lu Zheheng
The afternoon before yesterday, the deferred candidates in the Sichuan disaster area ended their last exam. Mianzhu Dong Qi Middle School is located in Deyang Sichuan Institute of Engineering and Technology. As the monitor of two senior three classes, Director Liu watched the last student walk out of the examination room.
Seeing the students' expressions, Mr. Liu's heart thumped. Finally, the whole class found that all the students didn't play very well, especially math, and many students said it was difficult.
However, Liu Yuanchang said that the students had no complaints about their grades, and the postponement of the exam gave them enough time. They want to thank the builders who built the prefabricated houses as quickly as possible.
As a member of the mm Sichuan-Zhejiang Special Action Group of Liqun Sunshine Education Express Train, Li Jiangang, a photojournalist and I came to the disaster area for the first time. We interviewed candidates from Mianzhu Middle School, Dong Qi Middle School and Nanxuan Middle School in Mianzhu City. Although their homes are ruined, they still have dreams. Even because of the disaster, their previous dreams became more specific and urgent.
Most of the students here have lost their homes, and their parents are still living in tents waiting for the prefabricated houses under intense construction. After the college entrance examination, there was no thank-you banquet and class reunion, and everyone wanted to go home and work hard with their parents to rebuild their homes.
Their plans after the college entrance examination are also very realistic. They can work in Deyang or Chengdu, serving dishes, taking out garbage and delivering milk to newspapers, earning 300 yuan a month. They don't want to bring more burden to their families, but they want their shoulders to be lighter. After all, their shoulders are already more generous than their parents.
At every test center, we can find students with excellent academic performance and family difficulties, not one or two, but two classes in one class. We hope capable people can lend a helping hand and help them fly, because they are the future of the disaster area.
There will always be 2 1 admission ticket in Class 5 of Senior Three, and the soul of 2 1 student is behind it.
Fan yibiao
2008-07-06
The children on these admission tickets have all been killed, and their brilliant youth has remained in the photos.
Kong Xiangdan, a man of few words, went to work after preparing for the college entrance examination.
Girls trying to cheer themselves up.
A girl's college dream
Liqun Sunshine Education Sichuan-Zhejiang Special Action
Reporter Lu Zheheng Photography Li Jiangang from Deyang, Sichuan
Spelling a heart on the table with the admission ticket is the idea of all girls in Class 5, Grade 3, Dong Qi Middle School, Deyang City. It seems to be a rehearsal before the festival. When doing this, the girls were fighting and laughing at each other, saying that others' spelling was not neat, "not like a heart, but like a peach."
"2 1 admission ticket, behind which is the soul of 2 1 student." One of the girls said there was a moment of silence.
There are seven girls who survived from Class 3, 5, Senior High School, and one of them is unwilling to take part in such activities. Mm Kong Xiangdan sat in another corner and looked at them. Then the girls show everyone who is the monitor, who is the vice monitor, who is the funniest person in the class and who is the person with the best academic performance.
At this time, someone sighed: "If only I had his good grades."
Tomorrow (July 3rd), everyone hopes to get a good result in the college entrance examination.
No longer worry about the college entrance examination.
When the earthquake happened, Class 5, Grade 3 was preparing to go to physical education class. Physical education class in grade three is more like a relaxing walk. If he doesn't think it is necessary, he can stay in the classroom and read. Some students have come down, others are dawdling in the classroom, or don't want to come down at all.
The teaching building began to collapse, and most of it could no longer come down.
Afterwards, all the surviving students were sent to Deyang No.3 Middle School to review and prepare for the exam, and there was nowhere to go. No home, no school, no classmates and some parents.
Kong Xiangdan's glasses are on her seat. After the earthquake, everything before her was blurred. This is similar to her psychological state. I hope everything in the past can be so vague. Who wants to remember that cold disaster?
After arriving in Deyang, Kong Xiangdan got a new pair of glasses in the optical shop. The clerk saw that she was from the disaster area and charged the cost price. Lavender new glasses look good on her face.
The world became clear, but Kong Xiangdan became blurred.
She always keeps silent, even if she spends miserable midnight in a hot tent. Most girls recover quickly. At this time, they always tell some jokes and make some jokes.
The students hardly remember what she used to be like.
"The college entrance examination is not that important to me," Kong Xiangdan said calmly, with a leisurely tone. "Of course, I will go all out, but I won't be swayed by considerations of gain and loss as before."
Children living in rural areas have no social resources. For them, the college entrance examination is an important channel to change their destiny. You can imagine their attitude towards this critical moment in life.
Kong Xiangdan used to be like this. For her, not going to college is evil, even the idea. Now, she plans her future like an adult: "I have met many volunteers, and now I know what kind of people live outside my world." I want to be a kind person and a useful person like them. "
Kong Xiangdan will go to work after the college entrance examination. Her psychological salary is 300 yuan a month, so if she goes to college, she can earn several months' living expenses.
This work is called "Forever Class 3-5".
The other six girls talk more, with brighter voices and brighter smiles. If they are not in this specific environment, they simply can't see any difference from other students.
"What about your school?"
"It's broken!"
"What about your home?"
"No!"
A voice, as if it had been trained a long time ago, felt funny and smiled for a while. For girls who are trying to be happy, it is cruel to recall the earthquake.
Let's be happy. Everyone is talking about the school they want to take, complaining that the school materials are buried in the ruins, and now the bulletin board is empty and there is no news.
"We don't even know what school and what major!" One of them said, "people like us who can't get high marks in the exam are the most painful."
"What's wrong with you?" Someone immediately said, "others are reading, and you are sleeping!" "
The discussion immediately turned into mutual teasing. As a result, some people suggested that you stop arguing and show the reporters the admission tickets of the students who died.
Tall Yang Ling took out an envelope from the small bag she carried with her, which contained a thick stack of admission tickets. You can see everyone's expression in black and white photos. This is a photo taken by Uni-President for the admission ticket. When the flash is on, everyone is looking forward to the future.
So, the girls put the admission ticket into a heart, with the monitor and vice monitor in the middle.
"This is a work," said Zhao Cheng, who wants to take an examination of art design. "It's called L forever, Class 5, R."
He has been running.
Huang wants to be a volunteer after the college entrance examination.
Fan yibiao
2008-07-06
Reporter Lu Zheheng from Deyang, Sichuan
If the 100-meter speed can reach 1 1. 1 sec, the score of the college entrance examination can be improved by 20 points. This speed can also attract more students when the earth shakes.
Huang did these two things.
Wake everyone up and run together.
Huang of Nanxuan Middle School in Mianzhu City sits in the last row of the classroom, probably because of years of training. He feels particularly keen. When the earthquake came, most students took a nap at their desks. As soon as the vibration started, Huang jumped up from his seat and ran all the way, patting the students in this row with his palm.
"I don't know what happened, so I think I should run outside," he added. "Wake everyone up and run together."
It was painful to be slapped by Huang, and the awakened student ran out with him.
The teaching building was shaking violently, but fortunately it didn't collapse.
I just want to find a bottle of water.
Huang running all the way went home and interpreted the story of Harmony to the fullest. "If you time me at this time, it will definitely be another record," he joked.
The earth may shake again. Huang didn't stop because he saw more and more houses collapsed on both sides. Someone is already crying. People are running in the street, but not as fast as him.
Huang doesn't feel tired at all. His muscles are like motors. Why hasn't he arrived yet? Why hasn't it arrived yet? He kept asking himself what strange things were in the street, and he was afraid that he would find the wrong direction.
After more than an hour, I stood in front of the Huang family. Actually, the door is gone, and there is nothing.
When mom and dad saw their son, his coat was stuck on his chest, his hair stood up one by one, and his muscular legs kept shaking.
Huang didn't go back to school. He and his family want to pick up some daily necessities from the ruins. "My throat is smoking," he said. "I just want to find a bottle of water."
Send letters, find people, lead the way, and carry materials.
The next day, the volunteer team came to Mianzhu.
Volunteers who have been to Mianzhu should be remembered as a dark and thin young man. His limbs are like springs. Ask him something. The man jumped out of sight, but he will come back with an answer soon.
This week at home, Huang Dou helped everyone in this way: sending letters, finding people, leading the way and carrying materials hh. His ability to run quickly became the fastest communication equipment before the cell phone signal was restored, which reminded people of the ancient Greek soldier who sent letters to the marathon.
However, it never occurred to him that he helped others. "Volunteers and the People's Liberation Army have come to save us," he said.
I also want to be a volunteer. I can run.
Huang also came to Deyang on 19, and the sprinter who is about to apply for physical education colleges began another sprint. His cultural achievements are neither good nor bad. The teacher said he had a good brain, but he couldn't calm down. "If I don't move for a day, I will feel uncomfortable," he admitted.
The next time, there was no playground for him to run, and a tent was set up on the playground. There is no time to do bench presses and squats, and he always feels uncomfortable. "When running, the whistling wind echoes in his ears, which is very comfortable." When he said this, his eyes were very excited, as if the earthquake had passed for him.
As soon as the exam was over, experts from the World Bank said that China's economic growth had reached its limit and needed to be corrected and adjusted. Huang plans to go home and see what he can do: "I want to be a volunteer, too. I can run."
On July 2, after the interview, the reporter left his hat in the classroom, and Huang rushed out with it.
Yes, he has been running.
Ward examination room
I'll take the exam even if I get 30 points.
Fan yibiao
2008-07-06
The day before the exam, the doctor took off the plaster for Tang Yu and put on a lighter orthosis. Reporter Li Jiangang photo
Four candidates are preparing for the examination room in the ward. Zhang Qiang, a candidate from Dong Qi Middle School, has a broken lumbar spine and can't sit by himself. Xinhua news agency
Liqun Sunshine Education Sichuan-Zhejiang Special Action
Reporter Lu Zheheng from Deyang, Sichuan
On July 3rd, the first large-scale extension of the college entrance examination in the history of Chinese college entrance examination kicked off in the Wenchuan earthquake-stricken area, with100000 candidates taking part, among which 7 candidates who had not recovered from injuries appeared in two specially set "ward examination rooms", located in xinqiao hospital, Chongqing Third Military Medical University, and Jingnan Branch of Deyang People's Hospital, Sichuan.
The nurses' station next to the operating room on the fifth floor of Jingnan Branch has been changed into an examination room, where four candidates who were injured and disabled by the earthquake will take the college entrance examination.
The elevator in the hospital was stuck below the fourth floor, and the police closed the examination room with a yellow and white cordon.
Everything is quiet, even if the candidates are not in place at this time, only the ozone sterilizer makes a buzzing sound, and the corridor is filled with the smell of disinfectant.
This atmosphere makes everyone talk in a low voice, even through the two thick glasses in the operating room. Everyone wants to make this place more like an examination room.
The names of the four candidates are Zhang Qiang, Fan Qin, Tang Yu and Liu Yudong. Fan Qin and Zhang Qiang suffered a compression fracture of lumbar vertebrae, Tang Yu suffered a fracture of his left ankle, Liu Yudong had his left leg amputated below the knee, and his right leg and calf were fractured.
Very quiet. If you listen carefully, you can hear the pen rustling on the surface of the paper roll.
Liu Yu's master lives in Mianzhu jiulong town. He has been a handy child since he was a child. The flashlight at home doesn't work, and the black and white TV is gone. He read a book himself and thought about it, then ran to town.
Go up and buy some parts, come back and fix them for a day and a half, and they will basically be repaired. His wish is to become a skilled mechanic. He can solve things that others can't fix and problems that can't be solved.
Tang Yu should have stayed in Chongqing for the exam, but she insisted on going home. In order to make the girl's feet touch the ground during the exam, the day before the exam, Dr. Tan Hong from Jingnan Branch specially took the plaster that had been playing on Tang Yu's left foot and put on a lighter orthosis. Her sister has been waiting outside. The little girl said that her sister sang beautifully, just like on TV. She always said that she wanted to be a music teacher when she grew up.
Zhang Qiang likes reading history books best, and now his biggest dream is to be admitted to the History Department of Sichuan University. He can't pass the exam this year, and it's certain that he will take the exam next year!
It turned out that he dared not say such a thing. His father never agreed to let his children go to school. When elementary school was promoted to junior high school, Zhang Qiang's parents had a big fight. His father thinks it's useless to read so many books and wants his children to drop out of school and go out to earn money.
Money, but Zhang Qiang wanted to study, so he cried and begged his mother to intercede. In junior high school, his mother pleaded for him again. After the earthquake, every time his father saw the broken wall at home and the children reading in the tent, he said, "Take the exam, my son will become a college student." Even if he sells iron, he must send his son to college.
After the earthquake, Fan Qin jumped from the second floor and suffered a lumbar fracture. When she was in Jingnan Branch, doctors in Beijing, Chongqing and Changsha invited her to local hospitals for better treatment, but she refused to leave Deyang anyway. "The classmates are here, I still have to take the test, even if it is 30 points!" The girl is very cheerful, hoping that she can go to college and find a job to earn some living expenses.
It is their wish and everyone's wish to be admitted to the university.
The largest examination room
150 prefabricated house, the dream of 5000 children.
2008-07-06
These prefabricated houses will continue to be used as temporary classrooms after the exam.
Reporter Lu Zheheng Photography Li Jiangang
From Deyang, Sichuan
On July 2, Deyang, the day before the college entrance examination was postponed in the earthquake-stricken area. The weather is hot and humid, and there is an uncomfortable sticky feeling on the skin. After noon, the sun emerged slightly from the clouds, and cicadas began to make sounds.
A week ago, Tianjin Construction Engineering Group completed the construction of more than 200 prefabricated houses, which are the most exquisite prefabricated houses in the disaster area: gray walls and blue roofs, with two ceiling fans installed in each room. Lao Wang, who is in charge of later quality, is smoking outside the examination room. The latest miracle is that he has just sent in all the potted plants he can get, and then he is going to buy a big washbasin. "It's hot, so we have to put ice cubes in the examination room," he said.
Lao Wang greeted the policeman standing at the door and went in to drive. More than ten rows of prefabricated houses built by Sichuan Vocational College of Architectural Engineering and Technology are the largest test sites in Sichuan disaster area, 150 test sites of about 60 square meters, which can accommodate nearly 5,000 candidates at a glance, and all senior three students in Deyang are taking exams here.
The children laughed loudly and teased each other.
The police are directing vehicles at the gate. They estimate that around 3 o'clock, candidates will come to find seats. In fact, the students are more anxious and have gathered at the test center one after another. The students who took the exam here are all children from Deyang city, and they were not seriously affected by the earthquake. Many people drove from home and soon blocked the road at the gate. The policeman was a little angry, so he called the megaphone and shouted, "Parents, move the car quickly."
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the bus arranged by the school has arrived. The road in front of the test center was suddenly crowded with people. The students fanned the wind with materials and formed a small circle, joking loudly and teasing each other in Sichuan dialect. The nervous mood turned into excitement, and the voice became louder and louder, so that some teachers who were talking were speechless.
The smell left by the construction and the slightly narrow seats are nothing to the children. On the contrary, some parents reacted more strongly. They greet each other and complain about the uneven paved road, but these words are often interrupted by children, begging them not to make a fool of themselves in front of their classmates.
Teachers are trying to raise their voices so that students can clearly understand the precautions that have been repeated countless times, including the details of not dripping on the paper when drinking water. The rich interjections in Sichuan dialect make listeners feel that this is an extremely important thing.
The empty examination room in the morning suddenly glowed with tension and excitement. When all social vehicles see this, they turn around and leave.
I also want to be beautiful these two days.
Another test center in Deyang is located in Sichuan University of Engineering and Technology, with half the scale and more than 80 examination rooms. More than 2,000 candidates from Dong Qi Middle School, Nanxuan Middle School and Mianzhu Middle School will take the college entrance examination there.
Dong Qi Middle School is the school where the hero teacher Tan Qianqiu is located. In the earthquake, the teaching building collapsed and many students failed to survive. The rescued students and students from two other schools were sent to Deyang to study.
Students here seem to be more silent. Most of their parents still live in tents in their hometown. Only the teacher led the team and came to see the examination room by car. When they got off the bus, the students of the technical college who were practicing in the school workshop began to applaud.
Zhou Dexiang, vice principal of Dong Qi Middle School, walked behind. He quietly watched all the children scattered in various examination rooms. Students sit in their seats with admission tickets, and few people talk. They seem to be experiencing the state of tomorrow's exam. For them, the meaning of the college entrance examination is somewhat different from before. The ceiling fan on it is broken, and the ice hasn't arrived yet, sweating like a pig.
Fu Yao of Nanxuan Middle School put on a cosmetic contact lens (a kind of colored contact lens) with a small mirror in the tent before leaving. Although it is very troublesome, the place to wash her hands is in the teaching building on the other side of the playground, but it can make her eyes look darker. "If you sweat, your glasses will slide down." She found that others had noticed this change, but she was also a little shy. "I want to be beautiful these two days." .
The bus sent them back to the resettlement site and the teacher told everyone to relax. Those textbooks that rub around day and night and write footnotes were put on hold for the first time.
In the evening, the teachers got good news: it will cool down tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
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