Since I mentioned PRIVILEGE, let me tell you where my pride lies.
My home is in a small county in Anhui province, the 18th line, I grew up being taught by my parents to study hard, because the county is really small, want to go out only to study hard.
Our children there are no extracurricular activities from elementary school, because the teachers are not strong, the school equipment is not, we have a big blackboard, a few boxes of white chalk, and an old TV. More than 120 people sat in a small classroom that could only accommodate less than 100 people, and some of the double tables were for three people. But what I thought at the time was that all schools were like this and the TV was fake.
Later, when we started junior high school, we were required to be at school at 6:30, and I got up at 6:00 because my home was close by. My mom gave me ten dollars a day for breakfast and pocket money. I had never been exposed to English at the beginning so the first start was difficult and the sudden increase in class work was hard, but there was no choice but to study. We had weekends and usually went back to cram school. Our teachers often told us that if we couldn’t get into a major high school, what could we do? Only to go to junior college to learn a few years back to work. So we worked hard to study. The school added two afternoon classes in the second year, about 7:30 after school, that is, 7:30 home to eat, 10 o’clock after writing homework to sleep. In the third year we added evening study, school ended at ten o’clock, so we could eat at the normal school hours, and my mother would usually make me a good meal and send it over, because home was close. In junior year we were at school almost twelve hours a day. We were very tired at that time, but my tablemates and I always said, “It’s okay, it’s good to get into a major high school. We were all looking forward to the future and longing for our high school to be a little like the one on TV.
The remaining half I don’t know what they are doing now.
The days of high school are only more tiring than junior high school, and I’m straight up dumbfounded. The same 6:30 arrival and 10:00 dismissal, with homes a little further away! Classes were also held on the weekends, and there was only one evening study period and one morning off during the week. Some students would go home every day after school and study for a while, I think this is not an inside roll, it’s an effort. High school is so tired, but I can’t stop going to school ah, can only adapt. And then it did adapt. Our school is a provincial model high school, but it’s very small, so it’s the smallest high school in our area! The teachers from other schools who came to study at our school thought it was small. In fact, there is an advantage to being small, that is, getting up a few minutes late, running a few steps will not be late.
High school students are very tired in the province of high school exams, but in the first year of high school can still guarantee three activity classes a week, activity class is our class to relax. Usually we just study on our desks, or talk to our peers and chat about the future. Stacks of books, dozens of papers, this was my high school.
Our school’s resources were still relatively good, and many of the papers were original papers, as well as joint exams with other schools.
When school started after the epidemic, we had to split a class of eighty people into two classes, but the teachers were still the same, which meant that our teachers’ workload doubled, and now I think the teachers were very tired.
Later, half of our class got into the undergraduate program, and some of them chose to repeat.
Some people in our class also got into 211, and the highest score is now in the University of Law.
I am now in an ordinary school in Hunan, my classmates around me are more than 20 points higher than I came in, but in Anhui my ranking is actually not bad.
As I write this, my pride has been reflected in full.
My family conditions are average, my parents are ordinary workers, eighteen lines of small counties to chase the stars is not convenient, the first few years, even the bottom of the sea is not a little bit until now. In fact, I would like to say that we do not have any so-called privilege, only their own efforts to learn, there is no interest classes, only cramming classes, so long have not even seen fencing. Television and computers are our way of learning about the outside world. But we are also kind, we also treat things around us softly. Changsha is very prosperous, there are many things I have not seen, but the small county of the 18th line also makes me forget.
I love my life now and I love my life before. I have spent 18 years, and there is not a single year that I am not happy.
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