The weather’s getting hotter, and the mosquitoes and bugs in the mountains are multiplying. The mosq

The water purification equipment for the new volunteer-teaching school has been successfully install

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A public-sector teacher resigned to teach in a remote mountainous area, postponing graduate school f

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I bought prawns for the students at my own expense. Seeing them eating happily and healthily made me

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Home Visit with Xiaohan (Part 2): After dinner, I had a heart-to-heart talk with Xiaohan. The kids'

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It's been nearly three years since I last taught there. No matter how much I'm reluctant to leave, I

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After evening self-study, the kids grab their basins to fetch water for washing up. At such a young

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Final exams are coming up—I’m treating the kids to some free-range chicken. Watching them eat their

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I promised to have dinner with the kids today. Seeing them eat heartily without wasting a single bit

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I didn't go down the mountain for seven days during the holiday. The students were going back to sch

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It’s been a week since the break started and I still haven’t gone home—I’ve been visiting students f

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During a casual chat with a colleague, I learned the kids had never worn school uniforms. So I quiet

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After teaching in the countryside, I found that many children in the mountainous area suffer from se

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The final exams are over. No matter how well or poorly the kids did, as long as they gave it their b

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I squeezed in another home visit during my own break, and I was honestly taken aback when I first wa

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During my first home visit to Xiaohan’s house, I realized she didn’t even have a desk. So I secretly

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Going to class to hand out the midterm exam papers—and rewarding our perfect-scoring students with a

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Today I’m back to playing the role of little chef—waking up early to prepare breakfast for all the s

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After traveling nearly 2,000 kilometers, I finally arrived at my new school. The children were incre

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It’s the Dragon Boat Festival! Today I once again personally paid to prepare zongzi, large shrimp, a

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Summer vacation is just around the corner! I sent several hundred boxes of bayberries to the school

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