Missing my alma mater

Twenty years have passed since I left my alma mater, and everything about my alma mater is still fresh in my memory, as if it happened yesterday. In my dreams, I often return to the campus and classroom of my alma mater, and be with my classmates and teachers.

My alma mater is the County No. 1 Middle School, which is also the oldest middle school. The school is located a hundred meters east of the Drum Tower in the center of the county. It is the highest school in the county. At that time, the No. 1 Middle School had not only a high school but also a junior high school. I was lucky enough to be admitted to the junior high school and spent six years of middle school there.

No. 1 Middle School is on the north side of the street, with the main entrance facing south, two gates in the middle, and side entrances on both sides. Walking into the door, you are faced with a circular flower pond. In the center of the pond is a white marble sculpture of a girl with short hair and ears. She is holding a book and walking forward with her head held high and full of energy. Behind is the flagpole, with a bright five-star red flag fluttering in the wind.

There is a newspaper column on the east and west sides of the flower pond. The newspaper columns display photos of the top students in the college entrance examination, calligraphy, calligraphy and painting, etc. Then there is the four-story teaching building with light blue exterior walls. The central hall on the first floor is the corridor. There is a full-wall mirror on both sides of the hall. You can look in the mirror and fix your hair and clothes while walking through.

The building is for high school students. There are four classrooms on each floor. There are many portraits of famous scientists hanging on the walls of the classrooms. The north of the building is adjacent to rows of red tile-roofed houses, which are the junior high schools.

Passing through the corridor in the middle of the tile-roofed house, there are exquisite blackboard newspapers on the walls on both sides, with pictures and texts that are often updated and contain famous quotes, philosophical prose, etc. I remember an article called "Sophistry", which impressed me deeply. I understood the meaning of sophistry from it. Walking to the last row of tile-roofed buildings in the north, my classroom of Class 124 is at the east end.

I remember our head teacher, Mr. Jia, he was tall and tall, with jet black hair, a round face, and always smiling. He also liked to cover half of his face with a math book to maintain a sense of mystery.

Teacher Jia emphasized that we should be careful when doing math problems, saying: "When doing math problems, you must be careful about each word, you know?" Eh? Isn’t it two words? It was definitely an intentionally bad joke, and we snickered. After the exam, he asked us to write a summary. He said: "Most students wrote that the exam was not good because they were careless and not serious. In my opinion, if you can't do it, you can't. You can also write 1+1=2 wrong." No? I'm still not familiar with the question type. "It makes so much sense."

Teacher Hao, the Chinese teacher, is ten years older than us. She has long black hair. She likes to wear her hair in a bun on the top of her head, with her hair loose at the back. She had just graduated from Normal University when she taught us, and we were the first students she taught. I remember that the first lesson she taught us was the "Last Lesson" in the first year of junior high school. I was deeply impressed. The previous Chinese class was taught by the politics teacher Song, who was the class teacher of Class 123, so when she taught us, we happened to learn this lesson. It was a coincidence.

In order for us to learn Chinese well, Teacher Hao practices writing a small handwriting and keeping a diary every night during self-study, which is very helpful for us to learn Chinese well.

In order for us to learn mathematics well, Teacher Jia also asked us to write a mathematical calculation problem every day. You think, writing a few math calculation problems every day will definitely improve your calculation ability. My good math scores are also due to this method.

Teacher Hao is very gentle, very patient and methodical. She is both our good teacher and our close sister. When we were young, we wrote down our joys and worries in our diaries and talked to her. She wrote lines of warm words in red pen to help us solve our problems.

Fifty or sixty students, fifty or sixty diaries, all have to read carefully and answer the questions carefully. I don’t know how late I have to stay up before I can go to bed. Teacher Hao is really hardworking. At this moment, I responded to the lyrics: Dear good teacher, every time I think of you, a warm current flows into my heart.

The English teacher, Mr. Wang, is the same age as Mr. Hao, and she teaches us English very well. She taught us before a male teacher who wore glasses and spoke fluent English. We just started learning English. Although the English-style teaching was very advanced, we couldn’t understand or learn it, so we were taught by Teacher Wang.

Teacher Wang teaches English, bilingual teaching, we can understand and learn. She asked her classmates to use the podium to perform Li Lei and Han Meimei, and perform in English in groups to see which group performs well. There happened to be a male classmate named Li Lei in the class. As a result, many classmates got angry when calling his name. They imitated the English words read on the tape recorder, and he looked helpless.

Teacher Wang also asked us to write a piece of small print in English every day. There are small prints in Chinese, math, and English. They agreed upon the three main subjects and were impartial.

The geography teacher Mr. Chai’s lectures are humorous and entertaining. We enjoy his class very much. In short, the teachers are all highly qualified, capable, dedicated and selfless.

To the north of the campus are the dormitories and canteen. To the east of the campus is the playground, which is very large. Here we get up early to run, take physical education classes, and do physical exercises in response to the call for "all-round development of morality, intelligence, body, and beauty."

As time goes by, No. 1 Middle School has moved to a new location, and the old No. 1 Middle School has become Fucai Middle School, which presents a new architectural pattern. The new No. 1 Middle School is splendid and keeps pace with the times, while the old No. 1 Middle School will always be beautiful and sacred.