Good friend - Datong

Datong is a member of the second group. Her hair is short and she always wears a blue hat. I first met her at an experiment class. She introduced herself at first, “my name is Datong, you can call me teacher Datong.” And then she gave us a big sweet smile. Later, in the process of experiment, while we went out to do experiment with the other teacher group by group, other students stayed in the classroom waiting. She then taught students in the classroom to play some games and whoever lost the game should be “punished”. I accidently made a mistake in the game while I was laughing at another student’s mistake. I wanted to escape the “punishment”, however, teacher Datong walked towards me and asked my name. I told her my name and she asked me to sing a song as the “punishment”. After I sang, she said to me that “Yuhong, do you want to be a star when you grow up, because your voice is beautiful”. This was how I met Datong.
    Later, I met teacher Datong in the model class. She taught us to make paper planes. She named her paper plane “Datong”. I learned from her. Though my plan wasn’t the prettiest, my plane flied the highest in the sport field.

I can’t forget her guilelessness and her carefree smile. And her beautiful eyes seem always waiting for something. She wasn’t our class instructor. But I cried the night before her leaving. I avoided meeting her and asked teacher Minfang to gave her my gift instead. I saw her again in the morning when I went home from the school. She gave m a card. I controlled my tears because I didn’t want her to see it. When she was saying goodbye to everyone, I didn’t come close to her. She found out and called me to come closer, however, I didn’t go because I was afraid of her tears.

The second morning, I went to the street right after I heard the horns. She waved her hands inside of the car and I saw her red eyes with tears. Watching car going away, tears blurred my sight.

I’ll remember the courage Datong gave to me. It was she who told me that I would be successful as long as I insisted working hard. I don’t see “becoming a star” as a day dream anymore; I see it as my ideal. Before Datong, there was no one who ever called me “star”. Datong opened the door of my dream and I would see her as the most beautiful encounter in my life.