My first nineteen years (2)

In 1994, after graduating from junior high school, after a whole year of hard work, I was admitted to Xintai Normal University.

From the first day of reporting, it has been a legend. Early in the morning, my father and I went together with a classmate from a neighboring village. When we arrived at school, a senior brother took us to our dormitory (a row of bungalows behind the teaching building that are cold in winter and hot in summer). After laying out the bedding on the bed that was assigned in advance, I went to the small shop to buy daily necessities. There are so many people in the small shop, no one cares about others, everyone buys what they want. What I want to buy is a thermos bottle. After the salesperson brought it to me, there was no thermos bottle cap. I asked for one, but it didn’t fit. So I said, get a few more and I’ll try them out (shei? shei was what I said). As soon as I said that, there was a thermos bottle cap. Several senior students laughed. I'm still confused. What did I say wrong? What's so funny? Ignore her, continue shopping and leave. Only later did they realize that I was too corny to try, and they laughed because I was a corny person. It was only later when I started learning Mandarin that I discovered that there was something wrong with my Mandarin. My upper tones were very poor and my intonation was almost off. The more this happens, the more chances I will be caught on stage in our Mandarin practice class. In order to improve my Mandarin, the study committee specially assigned me an instructor (classmate) to use one-on-one teaching methods in the Mandarin practice class. Teaching, from rejection to habituation to acceptance and recognition, I persisted for two years and made rapid progress indeed. After another year of teaching, I finally reached the second-level A level in the graduation test. I am very happy and very grateful to my classmates for three years. help. When I was young, I didn’t necessarily say thank you. After graduation, I heard that she was assigned to teach in a remote mountain village. I have never seen her in 20 years. I will definitely thank her if I have the opportunity.

There is nothing to say about studying. The teachers are dedicated to their responsibilities. The students are too young to finish and dare not play. There is no such thing as skipping class. They all require listening carefully, completing homework on time, and getting good grades in the exam. The teacher also teaches carefully and patiently. The teachers of each subject are as follows: Chinese Yang Li and Li Zhenqian, language basics Wang Minyong and Zhang Dengding, mathematics Mao Kehe, Tong Shaoliang (head teacher), politics Zheng Rongjian, history Ding Huaibo, geography Liu Zhi, biology Li Xiulan, Li Chuanen, physics Li Canxiu, chemistry Yin Yanhua, Music Cao Chengxian, Zhou Xia, sports Zang Dianfu, art Xu Xizhao, information Shen Liang, calligraphy Jiang Hongzhi.

After three years in the middle school, I have made rapid progress. Not to mention the Mandarin training every day, we also have calligraphy classes, brush and chalk calligraphy training, homework during the summer vacation, and a special calligraphy class. Although I am disabled from practicing, I have benefited a lot.

Music, because the music teacher can speak and sing, and is young and beautiful, the students all like it and listen carefully. I briefly learned the accordion and pedal piano, played the flute and harmonica in junior high school, played the erhu for two days, played the bass drum, and worked as a conductor, but it was just superficial, and I have forgotten all of it now. But the final test was to play and sing a piece of music by myself. With three years of study, I was lucky enough to pass.

What should be mentioned most is sports. There are three classes a week, many classes, and many extracurricular activities. We like it and it is really comfortable. The teacher covers everything, including running, jumping, throwing, skills, ball games, dance, martial arts, etc., and there will be assessments at the end of the study, and you must pass the test. Therefore, I can master the essentials of various sports movements. What I have to do every day is basketball. The boys in my class are good at playing and can be divided into two teams. We have to play every day. I take the time to compete with other classes. Unfortunately, I have never succeeded in dunking. Badminton, table tennis, volleyball (16 years after graduation, Teacher Zang came to my school to listen to the city’s high-quality physical education class. At that time, a teacher taught volleyball, and he also said that her volleyball was not as good as yours), football, vaulting , box jump, 33-meter discus throw, two cross-country races, 4x100 has always been the first in the general normal class of the school, etc. The happiness is incomparable now. When we talk about sports, we can’t forget to talk about lunch. There are brothers in our dormitory who specialize in food. A brother from a nearby family provided a public bicycle. Some people went out to buy steamed buns in the afternoon. We had a good rest after playing. When we go back to the dormitory, all the food and vegetables are kept, and the new leftovers are waiting for us to "clean". After we (usually five of us) go back, no matter how many, we finish them all (I have eaten eight steamed buns).

In 1996, our school moved, and all the boys took turns working in the school during the summer vacation. Before starting, they said they would pay ten yuan a day, and three meals would be deducted from their wages. A group of students from the old school will be given out, and a group from the new school will be responsible for collecting them. We climbed up to the seventh floor every day, and there were books, instruments, beds (the girls’ dormitory was on the seventh floor, the boys’ dormitory was in the basement), and there was nothing we couldn’t do without moving soil and planting trees.

Just like this, 15 days passed. When I settled the account, I still had to pay 9 yuan to the school. The teacher said, "Well, forget it. I will give you 10 yuan as travel expenses home." It's still a joke at class reunions, but it's endless fun.

In the last year, I changed my environment and my mood. I was finally able to go shopping on weekends. I went to all the streets and shopping malls in Xintai. Every plant and tree in Xintai was memorized at that time. , the feelings are deep.

In the last year, we were given a quota to apply for the mountain teacher examination. The teacher said that everyone could sign up and give it a try. Five people would be selected for training, and one person would be selected to take the exam. At that time, I became one out of five people who were brainless. After intensive training for half a month, because my brain was empty, I didn’t want to do anything, and I was a classmate, I really studied hard for 15 days. In order to learn a way, I was later told that I was A classmate used it, that is, drinking a large glass of water before going to bed, and the result was that he could get up early. Fifteen days later, everything was over. Another classmate from my class was selected (now he has gone to Shenzhen), and the four of us went home. Looking back now, I actually made the reservation a long time ago, just to take a look at the situation, but the 15 days was well worth it.

There are many more wonderful scenes and many jokes. I will add more when I think of it later.

Three years of normal school life passed in this fight. On the night of farewell, the seven boys who had not left at the end ran out to buy beer and side dishes. After getting drunk, we finally stopped. We all went our separate ways early the next morning.

Three years are over, and my student career is over. But these three years have left the best memories in my life. Looking back now, they are vivid in my mind and will always be in my heart.