Belle Leben

Before our coach drove into the school, we travelled across some blocks in the town. There are quite a few mini shops scattered between the blocks. One will be free from being worried about everyday use. But this is only true if he happens to be as thrift as old generations and is always ready to tighten his pocket. im afraid one must do so because this place is sufering from inflation and seems not be able to over it. So, food restaurants here are supposed to EAT 15 RMB a day from ur cash bank(there is no Construction Bank and the like here).

Some people outside here, especially my friends in Guanghzou, may furrow "Is that really poor area? How could that be such expensive living!" Local residents are lucky. They can make a living by selling or planting. However much cash tourists take with them, the money can fade away so easily and they end up with empty pocket.

The only way for us strangers to survive is SAVE MONEY, SAVE, SAVE....... We must mentally well prepared to fight for food. Now you`ve already seen the less bright side of this green town. im getting to make myself fall in love with it, otherwise the 4-month stay will definitely become a nightmare in my life.

Hey, Belle, try to be curious about everything that u encounter. i speak to myself. That is, to find the sweetness of a mountainous town. It is not as easy as the words i put here, though.

i live on the 3rd floor with students on the 4th and 5th floor. Just opposite the corridor, i can view a landscape where the crop fields stand in order around a small gutterway and look like a chestboard. Everyday  i wake up with this fantastci view in the wee morning. i dont know how much i like this, but i really feel good.

My dormmates and i spent the whole afternoon cleaning the dirty dorm which should be like a mysterious darkroom in Harry Potter,huh. We were all dripping with sweater in minutes and looked like we`s been caught in the rain. the cleaning woek is no doubt as difficult as anything. Thank God the result turned out to be not bad---- everything except the far-fetching ceil is nice and clean. We did feel released. It was time to move into the dorm and have our personal stuff in position.

MOSTIQUITOs is the top thing on the list of our disgust. Feeling sick, We repulsed them again and again. Mosquito-repellent incense has no use at all. We even use electric pat to have them electric shock hoping that they will never come back again. We swing the pat just like Card Captor Sakura with her magic wand. The only difference, i think is that, our enemies are Mosquito Monster. The war against mosquitos still seems to be longer than any wars in the world. We are constantly bitten by them everyday. Ewwe. Where is the peace? i better shut up.

FOR SUCH AN EXHAUSTED DAY , HERE COMES THE END. SEE YOU.

Belle Leben

Thanks to for-the-God-saken school radio(actuallly im not that grateful), i had to wake up with eyes half closed and half open when the clock pointer is turning from 5:55 to 6:00. The radio is snagging so loud in my ears and i lost the ability to figure out why there appeared Kid`s song in my dream, which has never happeded before i came here. then what`s the next to expect in the looooooong......day hours? u can imagine too. im so easily forget where i am now. Sometimes it`s a lot like i am living in a dream, where i tend to lose my bearings each moment i climb out of my bed. Oh, dear God.

Fortunately for us, substitute teachers who will be serving this montainous town for as long as 4 months, today have no work at all. We are free again.

What draws everything here the first picture has to be my first diary.
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29/8/2011 Thursday Sunny

It is 22:42 already. After taking photos for my new dorm, im finally sitting on my bed. Knees zigzagged, i held my diarybook in both hands. Actually this is somewhat holy, if you agree too, hah...My dormmates are bustling around the dorm, collecting their belongings.

I`ve been waiting for today since months ago. Time passed away without my noticing. Its been 10 hours since we aririved at Ying Dong Middle School, the destination where we will be teaching students as substitute teachers. Ok, thats the purposr of this 4-month trip(trip is a fine word as a sign to show my great expectation).

Still remembered while i was sitting in the coach from Guangzhou to Ying De, along the way countless mountains with sooooooo......many trees were jumping into my sight just like a movie snap. i couldnt say i loved it, still too early, but i did enjoy it anyway. All Green!!! We were greeted by such a tremendous green trees on the way. Before this trip i would have pictured this under-developing area isolated beautifully from the outside world. However, do not judge a book by its cover. This town is of course not a never-never land.