There is a popular saying amongst Chinese students: “Being a Chinese student, your student career would be defective if you don’t experience the CEE (College Entrance Examination). More or less exaggerative, it indicates the indispensable role that CEE plays in Chinese students’ life today. For the students before college, they are told that their only mission is to do well in the CEE, in order to enter a good university. And if you do achieve that, not only you but your family and your school will be proud and happy. But if unfortunately, you fail, it would be a great defeat for you and your family. So you can imagine what a stressed life a senior 3 student lives.
As for me, the senior 3 year means too much: A tough time, the CEE, and the admitted letter from NPU that I longed to for 12 years, the goodbye to my dear friends… And every time when I see the lamp which companied me until midnight every day for so many years, the test papers which could be piled up as a small hill, the Hello Kitty alarm clock that dragged me out of my dreams every morning, and the basketball which I played even in the last days before the final adjudgement, the subtle emotion from the bottom of my heart will engulf me. They are all proofs that I had gone through a hard but significant time in my life.
And it is memorable because of the friendship I gain. In the most difficult times, it was my friends that gave me courage to move on. When I failed in exams, it was also my friends that shared my sorrow and encouraged me. I still yearned the time I played basketball with my classmates, which was always a way we poured out our pressure. I still recall their smiles now and then…
I also encountered the terrible earthquake in this year. It happened just one month before the CEE. To guarantee our safety, we had to spend the last one month in the tents on the playground. It was summer exactly, the sun seemed to burn everything. In the roaster-like tents, we counted down in heart every day that how many days left, and encouraged each other to be persevering. So, despite of the horrible temperature and the annoying aftershocks, we managed to overcome these difficulties to prepare for the coming exams. This is really an exceptional experience.
There are too many things to recall for my senior 3 year, but what I want to say is that despite of all these toughness, the senior 3 year was really a purest and happiest time in my life.
Like the song sings: “ although the time had flew away , we had walked through it together.” Yes, it will be etched on my heart forever, the time we spend together, my senior 3 year.
Like the song sings: “ although the time had flew away , we had walked through it together.” Yes, it will be etched on my heart forever, the time we spend together, my senior 3 year.
Dear Jacky
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading this blog entry. Your sharing reminded me to look out for the rainbow after each heavy downpour. In other words, to be focussed on staying on target till we reach our final objective. Along the way, to give thanks to our family members and friends who stood by us (in all respects) each step of the way.
Hi Jacky That was a wonderful piece of reflection, well written as well. I believe the best times of our life is our student days. You are now with a new group of friends. some of whom you will develop deep friendship. But soon it will be Uni days and new people move into your life, some simply wonderful, some not so wonderful. Some relationships remain forever(?); some for the years together, some pass by, naturally ending. You will have new experiences, enjoy these experiences and whatever challenges you face, and challenges then will be the motivation to take you on to greater heights. Never compare yourself with others - you are who you are.
ReplyDeleteI could not agree more on what you are saying. Collage Entrance Examination is no easy task for each of Chinese students who have experienced or will experience it.
ReplyDeleteOnly after going through it did we really learn somthing, gain something and become mature to some extend.
Furthermore, it marks the ending point of our middle school life and is a turning point where new page of life is turned.
There are sorrows and depresssion when it comes to the time that we will have to say goodbye to the old days and our classmates.
But tomorrow is another day...
Your blog reminds me some of my memories of my senior 3. It was really a tough time. But to me, I think it was the year when I matured a lot. During the tough time, it was my strong belief, the teachers’ and my parents’ encouragement as well as the friendship that held me strong. Now we have departed from each other, and I missed the past days which we spent together a lot. Anyway, the senior 3 left me a precious memory.
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