Chapter 22: The top student in my hometown school has become a poor student now...
Seeing this, Kong Xiaoyue also turned her attention back to the textbook.
The second class was still a Chinese class, and Teacher Ni Zhuang still talked about this poem, but he expanded his teaching, starting from the poem and then talking about the poet's life background, then the social environment, and finally other poets who were equally famous as Du Fu at the same time.
He has a wide range of knowledge and tells stories, which is very interesting to listen to.
Xu Heye was multitasking, listening to the lecture and copying at the same time.
Kong Xiaoyue didn't quite understand what she was saying. She glanced blankly at the teacher and the other students in the classroom, then finally fixed her gaze on Xu Heye. Finally, she decided to imitate Xu Heye's actions—reciting poems silently and copying them.
In the second half of the class, Xu Heye closed her textbook and began to recite the entire poem. After she finished, she opened her textbook and checked it to make sure that the poem was correct before putting down her pen.
It was time to end the get out of class.
The alarm rang, Xu Heye got up and went to the bathroom, then left the teaching building, walked around the playground in front of the classroom twice to stretch her body, and returned to the classroom to prepare for the next class.
She had already copied the class schedule, and the next two classes were English classes.
The English teacher is called He Shuang. She has big black curly hair, wears a beige long skirt and high heels. She is a young woman who looks modern and artistic.
Fortunately, she taught the class in Mandarin.
The English lesson for the second semester of the second year of junior high wasn't too difficult, and since Xu Heye had prepared for it beforehand, she followed the entire lesson smoothly. She didn't waste the ten minutes between classes, simply using it to copy down vocabulary words.
As usual, after copying, he wrote it down from beginning to end, checking the textbook to see if there were any mistakes or omissions. Xu Heye's lips curled up slightly, and a faint smile appeared on her face.
At noon, she was eating in the cafeteria. As soon as the bell rang and the teacher called the class to an end, Xu Heye immediately took out her lunch box and water cup from the hole in her desk and rushed to the student cafeteria. As for the food coupons, she had already put them in her pocket.
Xu Heye ran fast and arrived at the cafeteria before the main group, so she was able to get her food after only waiting in line for a few people.
I found an empty seat and sat down to finish my meal. I washed the dishes in the sink at the entrance of the cafeteria, then went to the kettle to get a full cup of water before slowly walking towards the classroom.
While walking, you can also appreciate the flowers, plants and trees planted on campus.
Big cities are indeed different. While schools in smaller places are still shabby, those in larger cities have already begun to emphasize greening and tree planting. As Xu Heye walked along the tree-lined avenue, the magnolias planted along the path were already in bloom.
Snow-white, like a lotus, it stood gracefully on the branches. When the wind blew, there were bursts of light fragrance. There was a wooden chair under the tree. Xu Heye took a closer look and sat down.
I closed my eyes and took a nap for half an hour before returning to the classroom.
After a morning of focused study, she needed to clear her mind so that she would have the energy to cope with the afternoon's studies.
Back in the classroom, Kong Xiaoyue was copying English words. Xu Heye took a glance and found that she had written a string of Chinese phonetic symbols above those words.
For example, for “good morning”, she would label it as “Gu De, Mo Er Ning”.
Noticing Xu Heye's gaze, Kong Xiaoyue felt a little embarrassed and explained in a low voice, "I can't remember the pronunciation, so I marked it in Chinese."
Xu Heye opened the book, found a new word with phonetic notation, and showed it to her. "I do the same."
Kong Xiaoyue relaxed instantly and a smile appeared on her face.
When she first came to Hucheng, Kong Xiaoyue couldn't speak the language, fell behind in her studies, and even failed a grade. She went from being a top student in her hometown school to a poor student now. It was hard for her not to feel inferior.
She admired Xu Heye very much. She was new to the place, but she was so comfortable with it. Kong Xiaoyue envied Xu Heye, but she was also afraid that her deskmate would look down on her like some of her local classmates and teachers in Hucheng did.
Now that she knew Xu Heye was also learning English in this way, Kong Xiaoyue suddenly felt a sense of relaxation as if she had found her organization.
The two girls smiled at each other and put their energy back into their studies.
Ten minutes before class, Xu Heye went to the bathroom to use the toilet, washed her face to refresh herself, and then returned to the classroom to take out the physics textbook for the afternoon class.
After two physics classes, there are two physical education classes.
Unlike the practice in later generations where physical education was often used as the main subject, physical education was still very important in this era.
It is time to take physical education class.
The first thing to do in class is running exercises.
First, run five laps around the playground. The track is 400 meters long, so five laps equals 2,000 meters.
Everyone was in good shape, able to persevere at any pace, no matter how slow. Unlike the fragile college students of later generations, who would be exhausted and panting after running an 800-meter physical test.
After running, we can relax and rest for a while, and then continue to practice skipping rope and sit-ups. These two and the 50-meter sprint are compulsory items in the physical education test for high school entrance examination.
After practicing the exam items, the next activities are very interesting.
The boys gathered in groups, bringing out basketballs and footballs they had brought from home. The girls also had their own activities—skipping rope, kicking shuttlecock, or using chalk from the classroom to draw lines on the ground and play hopscotch.
The physical education teacher is also created by everyone. After all, it is for exercise, so no matter which one you play, you can get moving.
Of course, all this excitement belongs to the local students of Hucheng.
They have been playing together since they were young and have long formed their own circle.
Out-of-town students who have just transferred here, like Xu Heye and Kong Xiaoyue, have neither been able to integrate into the circle of local students nor find their own circle of out-of-town students.
Time was running out, so Xu Heye found a sunny spot and sat down to recite poetry. She had a small notebook she had made, filled with excerpts of the required ancient poems from her first-year Chinese textbook.
Many things, even if you have memorized them in the past, will be forgotten after more than ten years.
She is just an ordinary person, without a photographic memory or an IQ of 140.
I was able to get into high school in my previous life because of my hard work, so if I want to change my fate in this life, the only thing I can do is work hard.
What's more, she is much luckier now than in her previous life.
In this life, her parents are healthy and she lives alone in a rented house. She does not have to face the sarcasm of her step-grandmother, the critical and annoyed look of her grandfather, or the cold stares of her cousins... She also has the benefit left over from her previous life - she has learned the Hucheng dialect.
With such good conditions, wouldn’t it be a waste of her rebirth if she didn’t work hard?
Seeing this, Kong Xiaoyue quietly went back to the classroom, took a book, sat next to Xu Heye and began to recite.
The two little girls' serious and hard-working appearance naturally attracted the attention of others.
"Pretend!"
Kong Xiaoyue paused in her reading, her face flushing crimson. She was a soft-hearted person, and would become lost when confronted. She held the book for a moment, unsure what to do. But seeing Xu Heye's quiet presence, she thought for a moment, then picked up the textbook and continued reading.
School was over after two PE classes. Since we didn't have evening self-study classes in the second year of junior high, we could go home straight after school. Assuming the second period was almost over, all the students returned to the classroom.
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