JABLOG

Thursday morning, we were having a semantic class. Halfway when giving the lesson, Mr. Li stopped to look out of the window and said,

“What a crystal clear sky. It’s a waste of time sitting here in this cold stuffy classroom.”

It was quite accurate. I have been put into a jar carved “Education Brings On Fortune” since I was a child knowing little about schooling. Now I have to confess I am used to this fallacy. I’m living on the earth, but often keep myself from the sunshine.

“Why not go out and play games?” blurted a girl seated in front of me. The whole class were laughing at her ridiculous thought.

Mr. Li did nothing but smile and went on with the semantic lesson.

Usually it’s worth felicitating we have realized what situation we are in. However, it’s despairing that we have to ignore our realization.

Reality is always eating our dreams.

11 hours ago, I came back from our first reunion. It happened to take place 5 months after we, the students in Class One, English Dpt., graduated from college.

I didn’t expect so many people as ten would come (totally our class consisted of 15 regular students, 1 Korean student and 2 auditors, so 10 was by no means a small figure if looked in this way).

Having telephoned each of them the day before the reunion, I was happy to know they were as keen as me.

Jane did say that she would not come because her time didn’t allow such an event, so seriously that I felt awfully sorry and promised to give her our pics over the Internet after the reunion. It was really surprising she finally agreed to come, against all odds! She had to shack up in Phebe’s dorm in order to catch the early bus for TEDA in the early winter morning. She was ”tonight’s HEROINE” yesterday!

We ate much and talked a lot. During the dinnertime, that is, at eight, shortly after Jane hurried to the restaurant, I put myself through to Winnie, the pet of the whole class. The L.D. phone call to Changchun lasted 11 mins, with my cellphone passed on to everyone talking to her counterclockwise. This time she didn’t shed tears like she did 5 months ago on the day of her own departure. Her sentimentality inside is known as a remarkable feature.  Next, I dialed Ron’s number and at the first hearing I thought I had dailed a wrong one because of her accent that dramatically changed somewhat to Taiwanese mandarin. She talked longer than Winnie over the line with that drecky accent, up to 17 mins. And it was another L.D. phone call to Shanghai. Then we attempted to reach Shelly (in Guangzhou); however, she had powered off the phone. What a pity.

Grace Li is working for Novo Nordisk in HR sector. She hurried here immediately after work.

Jane Fu is working in TEDA, too. She left the company at 5:30pm, and got to the restaurant at 7:30. The next day she would get up at 5 or 6am to be back in TEDA.

Jasper Chen seemed not to be on the track. I mean, he was faced with the current employment crisis in his company, which had reduced one third of its labor force.

Ivy Zhang is working for OTIS, Tianjin, also in TEDA. This week she’s left idle since the company was taking an inventory rather than making products.

Tina Wang is an old friend of ours. All were glad to see her show up.

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We are living a happy life, ain’t we?

The happiest time in each year has been when we get together doing whatever since the day I met them all.

It’s the biggest treasure in my life.