After military training, I chose to stay at school to take part in social practice activity, hoping to exercise and improve my skills. Then, I started my summer life which featured teaching a throng of pupils and appended one-hour daily subway ride while other students delighted in going home with their suitcases.
军训过后，我选择了留校来参加社会实践活动，以期锻炼和提高个人能力。于是，当别的同学拖着行李箱欢欣雀跃地离校回家时，我开启了给一群小学生上课附加每日一小时地铁的暑期生活。
In this period, my status was briefly transformed from a university student into a science teacher. Of course, I also experienced all kinds of hardship and difficulties of teachers. There were sleepy and misty eyes in the morning, which was the result of having late nights to prepare for lessons in the next day; there was a figure running hither and thither before the class, which was my action preparing for scientific experiment; there was my action of pretending to be calm and criticizing strictly when giving classes, which was a kind of expression that I was overwhelmed by undisciplined students; there was a long stay during the break, which was because I worried about how to find those lost experimental material; there was my keen interest in mobile phone screen, whose reason was I was writing the day’s teaching reflection word by word.
这段时光中，我的身份从一名大学生短暂地转变为自然科普课老师。当然，我也切切实实地体验到了作为老师的各种艰辛不易。清晨困倦迷蒙的双眼，那是晚睡备课的成果；课前四处奔走的身影，那是在为科学实验准备材料；上课时的故作镇定和严厉话语，那是对学生们不守纪律的不知所措；课间的久久停留，那是在为寻找丢失的实验材料发愁；傍晚地铁上着迷于手机屏幕，那是在一字一句打出当天的教学反思。
At the beginning, I felt it was particularly tough. A variety of emotions surrounded me, which consisted of lonely, strange, frustrated, depressed, tired. However, those positive emotion weights accumulated constantly at the other end of the scale, making my life regain balance.
刚开始的时候，我觉得特别难熬，孤独、陌生、挫败、沮丧、疲倦，种种情绪包裹着我。后来啊，在天平的另一端，那些积极美好的情绪砝码不断累积，让我的生活逐渐重获平衡。
Maybe it was the magnificent afterglow running into my horizon when I looked up at the corner of subway entrance, or stars shinning within pairs of eyes when students successfully finished their experiment that makes it. Life is always like this, who gives you wind and rain while gives you a bright sky, and unconsciously shows you a surprise to tell you to do a good job because tomorrow will be a new day.
也许是在地铁口转角处抬头时撞入视野的绚烂晚霞，又或许是科学实验成功时那一双双藏了星星的眼睛。生活总是这样，予你风雨，也予你晴空，在不经意间送来一个惊喜，告诉你，好好干吧，明天又会是崭新的一天。
Author: Peng Qiurong
Date: August 11, 2022
