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Xi'datan Middle School
activity and communication
In 2007, 20 students in Xi’datan Middle School participated in West China Story Project. Since Apr 12 of 2007, as many as 110 stories and 463 photos are published on “westchianstory” website. All the web pages are made by the students themselves with the instruction of tutors named Pu Cheng and Cheng Yun in their spare time.
At the foot of Mount Qilian, there is a remote village. That is the location of our school, Xi’datan Middle School. Our school always ranks top on the examination of entering senior middle school. That is due to our teachers and students’ hard work. Through internet, many poor students get donation from home and abroad. （By Shen Ji-qing）
School activity and life
After snowing for several days, we finally have a sunny afternoon. Our teacher asks us to stretch on the playground. We are going to have a competition of push-and-pull.
Push-and-pull
By Gao Sheng-xing
This is an ordinary rural street, which hasn’t been cleaning for a long time. Today we are going to get rid of rubbish on the street and resume its formal appearance. Students are assigned to sweep the street, carry the rubbish and etc. Each of us works hardly.
Cleaning water channel-following Leifeng’s spirit
By Guo Zhen-zhen
If you have come to visit our school, you must be interested in the blackboard news. Each class is required to change the content of blackboard news every week. When the content is changed, group of students are crowded in front of the blackboard to see the news. The vivid picture and powerful chalk characters brings us great enjoyment.
Campus propaganda vanguard-blackboard news
By Ma Xing-kui
It’s not easy for us to hold activity in campus. One day, we saw a notice that there would be a mini-newspaper exhibition in the next Monday. We are so pleasant that we have the chance to show our ability. With cooperation, we produce two mini-newspapers for our class 803 to participate in the exhibition.
Mini-newspaper exhibition
By Wang Xiu-shan
Mini-newspaper exhibition
By Wang Xiu-shan
It’s the weekend. Our school defines a spring-clean on each Fri. the cleaning contains wiping glass, sweeping the floor, cleaning the blackboard and classifying the homework.
Our classmates work hard for class honor. After the cleaning, there will be a check-up led by duty teacher.They record the marks of cleaning situation in each class, place a competition, publish the result and send red flag to top classes. Every student is anticipating for receiving the red flag. We are struggling for class honor.
Weekend spring-clean
By Yang Ling
Last week, our teacher informed us to participate in annual song competition. Our classmates began preparing for the competition. The day is coming. Two hosts declare the beginning of song competition. The first actor is a boy from grade seven, who sings loudly and powerfully. With the applause, he walks down the stage.
Song competition
By Ma Hong-zu
This week, we are going to hold sports meeting. We are so pleasant to have several days off.
Sports meet in campus
By Ma Hong-zu
The annual entering senior middle school examination is coming. It’s a moment to decide students’ destiny. After three years hard working, we are going to have the exam in seated county 150km away from our school in Jun 15. We need to arrive there one day before.
The only chance for us to leave poor mountain village is to reading books. As a result, the competition of entering senior middle school exam is very severe. About half of the students have the chance to study further.
Stocking up for entering senior middle school exam
By Hao Yu-gang
Leaving for entering senior middle school exam---send-off
By Hao Yu-gang
"Ring..."
It’s the time for leaving school. As we live in campus, we can only go home on each weekend. On Friday afternoon, we get together at the foot of national flag polar and hold a “leave-taking ceremony.” We can’t wait returning home.
Let loose from school-can't wait to go back home
By Shen Ji-qing
Let loose from school-play together
By Shen Ji-qing
Communication
This summer flied so quickly. The boring days became happy because we were together with teachers from Taiwan. From the day we heard the news, we were waiting for the day’s coming.
When the Taiwan teacher left, they sent us a notebook as gift. Though it is just an ordinary notebook, it contains so much meaning. It means the teachers’ words and our precious memory.
Uncommon notebooks-The Days with Teachers from Taiwan
By Yang Ling
The Days with Taiwan Teachers-words from Damei
By Yang Ling
This summer flied so quickly. The boring days became happy because we were together with teachers from Taiwan. From the day we heard the news, we were waiting for the day’s coming.
In one afternoon, the Taiwan teachers came to our school. At first, we were afraid of contacting strangers, as we thought that Taiwanese was sophisticated. However, they were very kind to us, always with smile on their faces. The first impression they left on us was enthusiasm.
Those Taiwan teachers were young, who were representatives of Eden Social Welfare Foundation (ESWF). Every time, they came to our classrooms, they played games with us, taught us to sing songs, and gave us access to drama performance. In the drama course, we learned many things that we never contacted before. They taught us how to make different facial expressions, which made us laugh all the time.
Their teaching method was quite different from ours. In the course, there were two or three teachers standing in the front, the others were instructors staying with us. In this way, the instructors could solve students’ problems as soon as possible. When students got sick, they would give us the medicine which they brought in Taiwan.
They treated us as their family members.
They stayed with us for only a week. Time flied so fast. We would part with each other. We decided to hold a goodbye party.
At the beginning of the party, all the people were not relaxed, as it might be our last activity. We tried our best to hold our tears, and sent our best wishes to Taiwan teachers.
The Days with Taiwan Teachers--asking questions
By Guo Zhen-zhen
The Days with Taiwan Teachers--drama perform course
By Guo Zhen-zhen
Miss. Xiong was our lovely teacher, who always smiled and had a pair of glassed on her nose. They black boundary glasses decorated her round face, which made her look like a small bear. So, we gave her a new name, Miss. Xiong.
She was a volunteer teacher from Taiwan. This was our first time to contact with Taiwan people. Thus, we had the opportunity to recognize this lovely teacher.
In hot summer, we climbed mountains, and played together with Taiwan teachers. When we were tired, we just sat on grass land. She asked us that whether we wanted to go out of the mountain and have a look at the outside world. We replied her with confirmed answer. And then, she required us to study hard.
In fact, her real name was Li Ya-ting. How elegant her name was! Everyday, she stayed with us, giving us lectures and chatting with us. However, happy days always passed faster than we thought. One week later, she would go back to Taiwan. Everyone couldn’t have crying because we didn’t want to part. She wiped her tears and asked us to take the last photo. Some students were ready for taking photo, while some one remained weeping. Though the summer had passed, we still missed you, Miss Xiong.(By Guo Ju)
Mr. Pu told us that two journalists of Atlantic Monthly would visit Yellow Sheep River Vocational School and Xi’datan Middle School with accompany of TTT CEO Dr. Kenny Lin. We were so excited. We haven’t communicated with foreigners before. Those guests were recommended by Kenny. What kind of gifts should we send them? We had no idea. At last, we decided to send cards. Every student began to do handicraft, and finally we got it.
American friends--postcards
By Ma Xing-kui
American friends---show them West China Story platform
By Ma Xing-kui
Recently, Ms. Wang comes to visit our school from Shanghai. You maybe wander why we pay so much attention on this woman. You don’t know that our school is located in remote mountain area, thus few people pay attention to our school.
Due to Mr. Pu’s contacting, Ms. Wang can come to visit our school. She tells us the stories about the outside world and play cartoons on her notebook PC. We are pleasant to chat and stay with her. Not long, we become good friends.
Aunt Wang from Shanghai visits my family
By Shen Ji-qing |
