Passionate
tropical islands, vast blue sea, beautiful golden beaches. But the island, Sri
Lanka, graceful left in my mind in memory of far more than the scenery along
the way.
Have been
here for one month and a half, being around with different cultures, influenced by a
different environment, and I started to believe that time will tell all the
things. There was no need to set up our own rules, whether about the past,
present or future, just take things easy.
To feel the
culture of the country, to be with the people, the students, the teachers and
all kinds of people, I learned from their attitude.
The students
here are lively, the spiritual which belongs to children is dripping showed.
School where I taught is a boys' school and I taught fourth-grade, in the
beginning, it is a pretty daunting thing to control the order of the class . While
the kids hyperactivity, they really respect the teachers and are willing to
offer the teacher help. Once I want to clean the blackboard they will show
their enthusiasm and when I need to write a lot on the blackboard, they will
come to help. I’m really moved by their respect towards the teachers. When I
was in the class, teaching though only simple words or sentences from the book,
still need to consider carefully about the class form, I corrected students’
handwriting or spelling, they are very active and especially like to ask me to draw
stars to them. They asked my Chinese name, asked my signature, and then they
gave me their writing of my name as a gift, just like abstract paintings, but I
was still impressed. This moment, I truly appreciated my own identity, in the
classroom, just like a teacher, not just one sitting in a classroom of
students. I have a new identity in school from then on, and I need to have a
different mentality to deal with the problem. Oil lamps lit classroom, Buddha
smiles without a word, the lights on her face is beautiful, and I fell in love with
this kind of piety and pure.
Come out to a country
fascinated me a lot through AIESEC, I would say, is really a luck for me. Choose educational projects,
experience a different educational philosophy and culture, experience a group
of children with a different style of alive and kicking; in CS branch, met a
group of careful and considerate buddies; in the intern house, where EPs live together, just
like a family, which we can plan a weekend trip together, go grocery shopping
and cooking together. To experience Lanka
in the street, in the local small restaurant, in Lanka buses, on the train of Lanka,
and the temples and churches in Lanka, to experience a wide variety of
belonging to Sri Lanka's uniqueness. All unfamiliar things made me have a
different feeling from ever before. I think that I fell in love with this
country far away from China, a country which has a belief.
The life here
is so different from China: very strange meal times, the crowded buses which people
can leisurely hanging on the door of, the driver seems like barefoot driving,
walking barefoot in the temple, changing into tan complexion and so on. I cherished
these precious memories like unforgettable pictures, and bounding into books,
open when leisure, I am sure to come to laugh out.
Wang Jinying
From China
Wang Jinying
From China
