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Xi'datan Middle School
Rural life
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.
What is happiness? It’s a style of life, that all family members are healthy and happy. It’s difficult to get happiness, thus we should treasure it.”（By Guo Ju）
Ordinary life
Everyone struggles for life in the world. As one of them, I try hard to make my dream come true. In my life, I have received help from many people, among whom Ms. Xu Jun is the most special one. Ms. Xu Jun is a donor in Shanghai.
The light of my life-my home
By Yang Zhong-wen
In order to pay the tuition of my younger brother and I, my parents work as migrant labors in other province. Several days ago, my father went to work in Inner Mongolia. My mother stays at home because of sickness. Everyday, she gets up early and goes to bed later. She pay much attention to our study, which influences us a lot.
I love my home-my parents are working
By Guo Ju
My father is an ordinary farmer, whose time is used in planting crops and working as migrant labor. All the tuition of my younger brother and I come from my father. Look at his diligent hands.
My father’s hands-the frozen hands
By Wang Xiu-shan
In a remote and poor mountain village, the only income of my parents is doing farm work. However, it happened that the harvest is bad for two years. My father has to work as migrant labor in coal mines and my mother stays at home to take after of children. Their only hope is to earn more money for our tuition fees.
Today, my father is going to work in other province. Mum puts his quilts, several clothes and shoes into a big bag. I prepare a bag of milk powder, my elder sister prepares a bag of steamed bread, and my younger brother prepares some socks. We push all those things into the big bag. We hope daddy can come back safely.
See Daddy off-packing luggage
By Shen Ji-qing
In rural areas, sweater is a kind of clothe that withstands hard wear. Our sweaters are weaved by my mother. Because the sale price of a sweater in shop is about 30 or 40 yuan, it is more expensive than the cost price. If we buy the wool, we just need to spend ten yuan. Thus, in order to save money, nearly all of our sweaters are weaved by my mother. If a sweater is wore out, my mother tears it open and weaved a new one in another style.
My mother’s handicraft-beautiful sweater
By Wang Zhen-mao
Do you know fabric shoes? In rural areas, it’s convenient to wear fabric shoes in planting fields. It’s praised in a song like that children like the fabric shoes made by their mothers most.
Fabric shoes-all students have them
By Pu Xiao-lan
In sunny days, we usually go to Huangcao Po to pick up Yuelao, which is a kind of wild plants. It looks like wheat stalk, but much thinner. The only usage of Yuelao is to plunge into broom.
Our self-made brooms can be compared to be craftwork. We can use them both in campus and villages. It’s economical and endurable.
Broom, made of Yuelao”
By Guo Zhen-zhen
Broom is one of necessities in our life. We use it to clean the yards and campus. It is made of Yuelao, which is a kind of wild plants. Before making broom, we need to prepare some tools, including a wood stick, iron wiry, threads, and Jiji grass. Firstly, burn the root of Jiji grass and get rid of the outers kin. And then, fix the grass with iron wiry and thread.
It’s very common to see brooms in each family and campus. The boys in our class are good at making brooms.
Making brooms
By Wang Xiu-shan
Pack basket is a common tool used to carry things in rural areas. It can be seen in each family. However, all the pack baskets are not bought in shops, but made by ourselves. It’s cheap and endurable. We can use pack baskets to carry grass, earth and etc. To sum up, it can be used in different ways.
Weaving pack baskets
By Wang Zhen-mao
Winter comes. Our campus is covered with snow. Because of financial problem, we can’t bear burning mine. When winter comes, our teacher leads us to pick up brushwood on the mountains, which improves our working ability and expands our extra-curricular activities.
Pick brushwood
By Hao Yu-gang
We are quite familiar with cultivation in spring. In boundless field, our parents work quite diligently.
Cultivation period
By Wang Zhen-mao
Autumn comes. It becomes cool. Farmers are busy with harvest. Though I am young, I work with my parents in field.
Harvest period
By Ma Xing-kui
The busiest periods for farmers are spring and autumn. Autumn is the harvest period and it’s the happiest time for farmers.
Thresh gain
By Hao Yu-gang
In my hometown, the transportation is not convenient. There is no road, thus there is no car. In each family, we have mule to carry loads. In spring and autumn, mules are quite busy in planting fields, thresh gaining and carrying loads.
The main force in my hometown-mule
By Yang Ling
After seeing my habit, each village tells me to eat it after being raised. I am quite angry with their words. I wonder whether the relationship between human being and animal is eating and being eaten. I believe that animals have their own minds and feeling. In such a law of jungle, we hope there is respect and equality.
I ever heard a story like this, when yaks passed slaughter house, they roared together. I wonder whether it is a kind of expression. Human being should learn to respect animals. Nonetheless, I won’t kill the rabbits.
Lovely rabbit
By wang Xiu-shan
Other story
It’s six o’clock in the morning. We are awoken by a sudden sound of knocking at the door. We hurry getting up. However, the socks and clothes are missing.
After piling up quilts and putting on cloths, we begin to wash faces and brush teeth. We finish it in only one minute and then run towards our classroom.
Now we don’t need teacher to knock at the door. Some classmates even get up as early as four o'clock in the morning. in the cold classroom, they study in the light of candle.
In today’s society, we have realized the importance of studying. Only knowledge can change our destiny. Thus, we must work hard and create the future by ourselves.
Busy moment-getting up
By Wang Zhen-mao
In our village, the most remarkable buildings are three flat rooms. As our villages is located in remote mountain areas, the students in grade one and two have to study in schools run by the local people.
We go to school in a narrow mountain road. The campus gate is old and shabby, with rusty locks on.
Our school-shabby gate
By Hao Yu-gang
In our school, there are only three shabby rooms and a earth wall. There are five or six long narrow tables in the classroom, in which the shabbiest one is teacher’s desk. The blackboard is formed by cement. Several great figures’ pictures are pasted on the wall. After the door, there are two old brooms and a broken rope skipping. Those are the children’s tools for cleaning and doing sports.
Our school-only classroom
By Hao Yu-gang
Though the classroom is shabby, it‘s clean and tidy. Everyone cherishes the classroom as it’s the only school in our village. There are only six students. The young woman teacher works diligently and treats us as her children.
Our school-pursuing knowledge
By Hao Yu-gang
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