First Meeting - Wanshou Temple
? After reading the blog post "First Meeting" written by Teacher Wang Jun, I couldn't help but recall what happened when I first stepped onto the podium 27 years ago. The past is forgotten.
In that special summer of 1989, the summer when Teacher Wang Jun failed the college entrance examination for the first time, at the age of 18, I walked out of the gate of Luohe Normal School and came to Wanshou Temple School, which was more than ten miles away from home. , became a primary school Chinese teacher.
This is a dilapidated school with no gates, low walls, and dilapidated classrooms. There is no joy and beauty like the "First Meeting" written by Teacher Wang Jun, only me. He was in an extremely bad mood, and everything looked so unpleasant. Yes, among the five normal school students who graduated with me, the other four were all assigned to schools with good conditions in all aspects close to home. Only I was sent to this remote, shabby school that seemed to give up. . Why? Why?
The school assigned me to a class in the fourth grade of elementary school. The students were very lively and cute. Maybe it was because the original teachers in this school were all old teachers, and I was the only young teacher. Maybe because of it, the children gathered around me and asked me, "Teacher, why are you so young?" "Teacher, where do you come from? How come I haven't seen you before?"...I was a little confused. He panicked, fled in a hurry, left the classroom, and locked himself in the office.
Everything is so annoying. When I first stepped onto the stage, my monthly salary was 63 yuan. I brought noodles from home and handed them to the teacher in the school who only had three or four teachers eating there. Guys, most of what I usually eat is cabbage, radish and the like. The cook, Master Chen, likes to drink and won’t cook when he’s drunk. Several other old teachers saw that they had no food and rode their bicycles home. I just I can accommodate myself casually. The most unbearable thing is that once, the guy didn't cook for four meals in a row! I could only eat at Teacher Zhen’s house and the student’s house across from the school, and the food expenses for the first month were more than 40 yuan! At that time, my monthly salary was only 63 yuan!
In addition, the school was too far away from home, and the roads were not good at that time. It would be dark when I got home after school on Saturday (then I went to school six days a week), and I had to go to school very early on Sunday afternoon. If I go on Monday morning, I will miss the class. That winter seemed to come earlier than any other year, and the first snow seemed to fall earlier and heavier than any other year. On the way to school, the biting north wind blew on my face, which really felt like a knife cutting me. The road covered with ice and snow made it impossible to ride a bicycle and had to push it along. Because the road was too slippery, I fell down several times along the way. Fortunately, I wore thick clothes in winter and I was young, otherwise it would have been broken long ago. What was more uncomfortable than the coldness and pain on my body was the cold feeling in my heart. At that time, I really didn’t want to be a teacher anymore.
To be honest, difficulties are difficult. From a growth perspective, I am still very lucky. Teacher Zhen, who teaches mathematics in my class, is a middle-aged female teacher with rich education and teaching experience. She quickly discovered My mood was not right, so she came to talk to me after class and chatted with me about daily life, but she never preached or criticized. She only talked about her education and teaching experience, feelings, and some experiences in interacting with people and getting along with students. When there was no food, she would ask me to go to her house for dinner. I don’t know how to express my gratitude to Teacher Zhen. I only know that it was her, this noble person in my life, who made me put aside all kinds of distracting thoughts that I shouldn’t have and gradually calmed down my irritable heart. , focus on students, focus on teaching.
Maybe it’s because I am the only young teacher in the school. Our Principal Hu is also very kind to me. He often talks to me and sometimes asks me to go for a walk with him outside the school after dinner. He was very down-to-earth, without any rhetoric or deep thoughts. Some local old teachers formed a small group to ignore him. He never said anything, but just said: "People are doing it, and God is watching.
"He taught me to socialize more with Teacher Zhen, not to have too much contact with other people, not to be influenced by them, and to achieve results, not for praise, but for peace of mind.
Everything started to look good. My students were very successful, and their test scores were pretty good. After the summer vacation, the principal overcame all objections and asked me to teach the fifth grade (graduating class, there was no sixth grade at that time). Teacher Zhen was the one who taught mathematics. In 2016, we worked together and devoted our whole body and mind to this class. After breakfast every day, there were only a few students in other classes, and the students in our class all sat down to start morning reading; The students were still chasing each other around the campus, and Teacher Zhen and I had already started to go into the classroom to help the students with their homework; it had been a long time since school ended in the afternoon, and we were still giving lectures to a few students; after dinner, I visited the students’ families if I had nothing to do. , working with parents to educate their children... I still clearly remember that I taught them step by step how to write calligraphy, review essays, and draw bamboo. I also remember those parents giving me eggs and asking me to come to their homes for dinner, etc. So many warm and unforgettable scenes.
That year, we won first place in all fifth-grade exams and competitions in the township: total score in fifth-grade essay competition, first place in individuals ( Later, I also won the first prize in the county competition), the total score in the calligraphy competition, the first place in the individual, the Chinese knowledge competition, the mathematics competition, the fifth grade language and mathematics joint examination, all first place, the most important thing is the primary school graduation entrance examination, We won the first place in Chinese and Mathematics without any suspense, and were far away from the second place. There were 14 students in the township with a total score of 170 or above in the two subjects of Chinese and Mathematics, and my class accounted for 8 I still remember the names of Han Shujuan, Liu Kewei, Sun Hongyu, Sun Zhijun, Sun Yonggang, Sun Xiaodan, Han Fen, Liu Yonggang and other students.
After the announcement, Wanshou Temple School and Qianzhen Village, where the school is located, celebrated. Only Principal Hu and Teacher Zhen had something wrong. They said to me, you don’t want to go anywhere after the summer vacation, okay? I didn’t understand what it meant, so I agreed. However, before the summer vacation was over, the school district transferred me to Shangqiao Town No. 2 Middle School.
That’s how I left. At first, I was reluctant to go. Now I can't leave Wanshou Temple School - the place where my youth bloomed and where my sweat poured out, and I embarked on my new path.