My Feeling About Poverty Reduction In China

“Life is like a journey”, which gives me significance meaning. I never think that I have an opportunity to participate learning program in Tsinghua University. Thanks to my curiosity, I had a chance to catch on China more and more. When it comes to poverty reduction In China, my brain is filled with plenty of unforgettable memories. Because it is a coincidence thing that happen on me which I am not interested in this program. Maybe it is time for me to service those people who need me that God guides me to this path. Besides, I will like to grateful my parents’ supports and friends’ assistances. In this trip, I am totally twisting my thought which I never seen ever in Taiwan before. Numerous articles and rumors spread over in our minds. Most of negative news arestereotype, it all focus on the political affairs but in the majority good news which our government chose to hind in the backside or neglect them in reasonable. Therefore, both of two sides will never be peace ever forever in ill-advised method.    

In here, I am glad for meeting a lot of foreigners in Tsinghua University and sharing my hometown cultures and teaching my mother language: Chinese. I am so excited about how this wonderful trip can give me the challenges which are waiting me for coming. The first day, I arrive at Beijing with seven members of Taiwan people. Fortunately, I bump into one of my group member in Beijing airport lobby. He is form USA. And his name is Donald Rucker, two meter tall, black man. At the first time, I am so shy to say “hello” to him because it is my new experience that I never talk to the black. When we are in the street of Beijing, the troubles start coming around us. The distance from Tsinghua University east gate to Beijing station is not a far rage, and it causes none of taxi drivers will to take a drive for us. Then our team leader, Henry Guo begin do a crazy action that I am so surprise. I will never see that someone burst into the middle street to stop the taxi when the cars still driving on the road. It is so endanger which I am not dare to try it. After the fierce block on the road, we all arriving our dormitory safety in Tsinghua University. And cracked days in Hebei Hsien-hsien which I ever expected are coming day by day. Hebei Hsien-hsien is the place where we begin our poverty reduction.

Together with my group member Claudio Liang, Jasper Liang, Donald Rucker, Alex Xu, and Henry Guo, our team leader, we have a unite religion to enlighten children taste. Our mission is teaching children in primary school English. Though we only have short nine days to teach and help them how to pronounce correctly, we still prepare satisfied schedule by ourselves in the rest of time. Perhaps vocabulary and grammar is not the key to solve the problem, the more significant is that helping them to cultivate enthusiasm on English. I firmly believe, if you have passion on learning any languages since you do not have stable foundation, it just fine. Let it be! The lesson you need to learn is your attitude to your life. That is the great model I should learn from those children.

Depart from the Tsinghua University, we are going to work together in Hebei Hsien-hsien.

The resident in Hebei Hsien-hsien all welcome our visit, while we go their primary school. They all wear smiles in hopes and the children are very exciting what we teach. The school principal gives us a rich lunch before sending us to our dormitory, which is in a teacher office. We give up sleeping in our own room which they have already prepared for it is no air condition inside of it but have comfortable beds. So we settle on sleeping on chairs, line up four chairs long and two chairs wide in a large meeting room together. We have teaching classes on Monday to Friday, each day starts on 7.30am to 11am. We have to wake up at six am consequently every day just like the military to me, tired but worth it. This daily routine is my first time that feel with merry and bliss in my twenty years life. Words cannot describe how happy I am and I think I am the lucky guy in the world just this moment. Never have I think about speaking in English or French to the black and walking together in Tsinghua University campus around when we just strangers. Never have I think about abandon the modern city to the rural area where the place I teach in English. Never have I think about I am the only Taiwan’s people and female in this group. All I have to say to my-self, “It is my destiny!” On the surface, it is not beneficial to me, the place I stay; the food I eat; the weather I feel; the bad-temper member I endure, the whole thing seemed that are going challenge my emotional Intelligence. But I still hold optimistic in that tough time and my mother is my main power to me to stand for it. She sends e-mail for me every day to encourage me. I cannot image if my mother does not support me while I am in the low emotion. I am so appreciate that I have a benign mother.

One thing that makes me astonished is the students are always energetic, obedient, initiative, and diligent. During class time, they all concentrate on what I say each word and speak what I point on the blackboard. The good spirit on students who have wonderful character that touches me so much. Even though, our relation is teacher and student, I still tell them please see me like your own sister and share every things you want to me.

In these short time of poverty reduction, I teach them the knowledge from novels and songs to students but they teach me things are existing detail in our lives which we always ignore for it. And the most fun thing in this trip is my twenty years old birthday. Luckily, it is on Thursday. When I walk into my class, all my students applaud and sing happy birthday songs to me. In front of the rostrum are lots of cards and gifts. One of the present is very especially to me, I still laughing when I remind of it. It is a big watermelon which carve “Happy birthday, Sandy !” by students hands. I will never forget how childish and shiny smile they have. They just like a twinkle stars in my mind.

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