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

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

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

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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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We’re distributing warm care packages to the kids, hoping they’ll stay cozy through the winter. Help

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Rewarding students who made the biggest improvements on this midterm exam with a trip to town for so

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The kids put on their new school uniforms, received festive gifts sent by caring older siblings, and

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

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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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Finding Gold

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Just finished the home visit and heading back—after rushing 2,000 kilometers, I finally get to taste

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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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We were supposed to distribute the school uniforms to the kids last semester, but because of the ear

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

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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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Taking advantage of my vacation to return home, I braved the mountain roads on a torrential night, p

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

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