Development of the Great Escape in Hokkaido

All the students of Ahan School gathered at Haneda Airport in Tokyo. The school specially sent teachers to pick them up and then took them to the cold Hokkaido.

The plane landed slowly at Kushiro Airport. Through the porthole, you can see the endless virgin forest. Mountain flowers are blooming in various ways. There are white clouds floating between the ups and downs of mountain love. On the grassy pasture, colorful farmhouses, tall haystacks and leisurely cows are dotted in nature like stars. What a poetic space!

The school teacher was very enthusiastic and hung a welcome sign at the airport exit. Foreigners have never lived in this place before, and the simple and kind residents are very friendly. Anyone who meets students on the road will say hello, and even the building of Akamachi government has a slogan welcoming students.

The school is about 30 minutes' drive from Ahan Town. It is a remote village, with nearly 100 uninhabited old houses, only a dozen families around, about 30 to 40 people, half the elderly and half the children, and young and middle-aged people are making a living outside. The local area used to be a mining area. When it was prosperous, nearly a thousand people lived there. Later, because the coal price mined was more expensive than that imported, the coal mine was closed. Now, with the support of the famous Japanese school "Bird College" in Yokohama, a Yokohama native and a China teacher from the former Bird College and the Ahan Town Government jointly established the Ahan School of Bird College. According to the idea at that time, through the establishment of schools, the establishment of China people's settlements. The town government attached great importance to it, with the mayor as the mainstay and the town leaders participating, and formed the Japan-China Friendship Agreement Meeting in Ahan Town. Each member acts as a guarantor for two students. At the beginning of the school, the first batch of young people from China were welcomed, and the town government was full of confidence in the future.

Ahan's school is located in No.1 Middle School, while the school in Judah has only a dozen students. There is also a big indoor gymnasium. The school canteen is used by China students, and a Fujian chef is specially invited from Yokohama. Everyone eats the same pot and collects money at the end of the month. The school has also transformed some old houses, with bedrooms and living rooms for 6 to 8 people, equipped with double beds, heaters, water utensils and so on. There is also a group activity room, a bathroom and even a barber swivel chair. At the opening ceremony, the government minister of education and the local police came to congratulate them, and reporters interviewed them one after another. Through the introduction of the news media, this school in Hokkaido became a household name for a time and became a much-told story.

In Hokkaido in July, although it has entered the midsummer, it is too hot to wear shirts at noon, but the sun is setting and it is still very cold to wear sweaters. You need a stove to feel warm at night. "Eating watermelon around the stove" really lives up to its reputation. Looking at Xiao Han, Japanese people's hearts are like the noon temperature rising to the peak, while China students' hearts are like the night temperature falling to zero.

Not far from the school, there is a beautiful primary school with nearly 10 students, and there is also a meat processing factory nearby with only 10 workers. In addition, there are endless barren hills. On the second day of coming, all the students went to two places to get familiar with the environment. Before they finished speaking, the teacher rushed to call all the students back and announced that they had to ask for leave from school because the only 24-hour management system in Japan did not allow them to move freely. The duel first made the students feel hopeless.

Debt-ridden students began to apply to the school for jobs, but the school insisted on doing it according to the "three months without work" of enrollment management. Surrounded by barren hills, I don't know where to find a job without school introduction, and I'm not allowed to go out freely. Those students who heard that they were going to work in Tokyo began to be impetuous. As time goes by, time is money for international students with only two-year visas.

The students have repeatedly called for relaxing the restrictions, but the school still adheres to the principle and the students are chilling. At night, everyone huddled together to discuss countermeasures and sighed like trapped animals. When China, the only person who can talk about his troubles, visited everyone through his teacher, he burst into tears, which made the eyes of this hard-working Shandong man moist. The students finally put forward a request for transfer.

The school was embarrassed when the students wanted to leave. As early as before school started, two students left without saying goodbye. After school started, another person left quietly in the middle of the night because the school refused to go to work. The Japanese shook his head puzzled. It is beyond their comprehension that the tuition fee of 420,000 yen should make this group of China international students unable to study with peace of mind.

The week-long course is over. Because I don't know the situation in Japan, it is not convenient to contact my friends in Tokyo, so I have to "settle down when I come." Suddenly, the government and the schools in Yagan Town announced that they agreed to transfer to other schools, and the students suddenly became active, writing down leave notes in succession and preparing to March into Greater Tokyo.

The traffic in Ahan Town is inconvenient, and only four buses pass by every day. On Sunday morning, the students are ready to leave. In order not to affect the residents' rest, some students moved their luggage to the bridge not far from the village to wait for the bus, but the passing car found it and informed the school. The teacher woke up from sleep, took the waiting students back in slippers, and then drove after the passing bus until he caught up with the road to intercept another group. When I got to school, my passport was taken away before I was sent back to my dormitory. The passport will not be returned until the last bus in the evening has passed. Agreeing to transfer to another school, but not letting them go, made the students feel even more afraid.

At night 12 o'clock, the dark sky is opaque and it is raining cold. The students who were intercepted during the day quietly packed their bags and started a difficult escape with the tears of other students.

At 3 o'clock in the morning, they have already passed through Ahan Town, walked past Kushiro Airport where the plane landed and headed for Kushiro City. Afraid of being discovered by plane, it is safe to go to Kushiro by tram. Due to the constant avoidance of the night train, the water droplets in Artemisia grass and the rain in the sky quickly soaked the sweater and the cold shirt clung to the body. Each of them holds a wooden stick in his hand, which is a weapon ready to fight against wild bears and wolves at any time. There is no one on the road, only the distant pasture occasionally shows a little light, and fierce beasts will appear in the dark forest at any time. When you are thirsty, lick the water drops on your lips with your tongue. When you are hungry, you have nothing to eat. After several hours' trekking, I just felt my calf swell.

Hokkaido is the easternmost part of Japan, and it is early. The surrounding darkness gradually turned into fog. Here we are, here we are. The city ahead is Kushiro. The escaped prisoner was exhausted and cheered from the bottom of his heart. Just then, an early taxi passed by and they climbed into the carriage like lifeboats. Half an hour later, I finally came to Zhonglu Station.

It is still early. After they bought the tickets, they dared not stay in the waiting room for too long. They sneaked around to an empty shed behind the station and put on dry clothes. Hungry and thirsty, they dare not go out to buy food. When the tram for Sapporo was about to leave, they ran into the station and jumped into the carriage. The tram started. Looking at the rising sun in Ran Ran, Ran Ran, the students declared that they had successfully escaped.