Her name is Yan Jie, 19 years old, and she is a student from the 17th grade Chinese and Western pastry professional class of Taiyuan Advanced Technical School (Taiyuan Technician College). In the National Poverty Alleviation Vocational Skills Competition, she won the National Excellence Award for the Western-style Pastry Chef Project.
Borrow money to treat your illness and open a restaurant to pay off your debts
Yan Jie's hometown is a small remote village in Fenxi County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province. "As a child from a poor village, it is very difficult to have the opportunity to go out of the countryside and go to school in the city!" She said.
In 2012, Yan Jie's mother suffered from uterine fibroids and was pre-cancerous. The cost of treatment alone costs 80,000 yuan, which makes it worse for families that are not already rich. She said: "At that time, my brother and we were still in school, and the family was supported by my father getting up early and working in the dark. After the mother was discharged from the hospital and returned home to recuperate for a year, in order to pay off the huge debts owed by the hospitalization and treatment at that time, the father and the mother who had just recovered from a serious illness borrowed a sum of money from relatives and opened a small restaurant in the local area. ”
In order to reduce the burden on her family, Yan Jie dropped out of school to help at home after finishing junior high school.
Re-enroll, cherish the opportunity to learn technology
Later, Yan Jie's family enrolled her in taiyuan advanced technical school (Taiyuan technician college) through inquiry and comparison. During her time at the school, she chose chinese and Western pastry majors.
Yan Jie is well aware of the hardships of her parents, and she knows that the days of learning technology in school are not easy to come by, so she is always diligent and thrifty and does not dare to slacken off. After three years of professional and technical study in school, coupled with her diligent practice and the hard teaching of teachers, Yan Jie's technical level has become better and better.
Although it is very boring and tedious to practice technology, Yan Jie always thinks of the poverty of the family in her mind, to work hard, to learn well, to practice the technology, to earn money to help the family reduce the financial burden in the future, to live up to the parents who raised her from childhood and the teachers who care about her - all this has become yan Jie's source of motivation, so that she can stick to the end and redouble her efforts at any time.
She said: "I always have a grateful heart, I want to thank our country, thank the country's student assistance policy, thank the school for creating such a beautiful learning environment for me, for my dream to soar wings, to achieve my dream of technology." ”
Prepare diligently to live up to expectations and achieve good results
During the summer holidays in 2020, Yan Jie suddenly received a notice from the class teacher and school leaders that she was selected as a participant in the "National Poverty Alleviation Vocational Skills Competition Western-style Pastry Chef Project" and will represent Shanxi Province and Taiyuan City Technical School.
The specifications of this competition are so high that for Yan Jie, who has never participated in any competition, the excitement is more than the trepidation. Through the encouragement and enlightenment of the school leaders and technical instructors and project head coaches, she gradually built up her confidence and slowly entered the state of preparation.
From 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., a daily training time of up to 9 hours, Yan Jie persevered. In the end, she won the national winner of the competition project.
"In fact, I was very dissatisfied with this result, and the gap between my level in pre-competition training was very large, and after the game, I was in a very low mood and hid in the toilet and cried." Then I immediately thought about it and reflected, because I was the first time to participate in the competition, without any participation experience, without any basis in the competition, when I went to the competition on the day of the competition, I saw other players in the country who were stronger than my own skills, and I was busy, psychologically nervous, and frequently made mistakes, resulting in unsatisfactory final results. Yan Jie said.
Regain confidence Firm goals and start again
"Don't be discouraged, this is just the beginning, the experience is accumulated bit by bit."
"There are still many opportunities in the future, and with the experience of this national competition, it is very valuable, which lays the foundation for better results in the future."
"To keep up the good work, we must have the courage and dare to challenge ourselves."
The enlightenment and encouragement of school leaders and teachers made Yan Jie once again strengthen her confidence and goals.
The flower is grateful for the rain and dew because the rain and dew nourish it to grow; the mountain is grateful to the earth because the earth makes it towering. Full of gratitude for every spring light on the road to growth, Yan Jie understands that she shoulders a heavy burden. She set her ambition: to continue to strive to improve herself, repay the school, repay the society, and become a high-skilled and high-quality talent.
I look forward to more people like Yan Jie, through learning skills, out of poverty, live up to youth, realize their dreams, and usher in more opportunities to change their lives.
Past period review
1, Han Xiaodong: use skills to knock on the "happiness door" of poor households
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/RuLX1g21hqWmnf5ElbGMFA
2, Wu Yanfei: use skills to change life with your hands to achieve dreams
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/eYZLpunK6utg1_ULhEoFWA
3, Duan Yanming: I planted a dream - out of the mountains to a larger world
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/TBhjK5HZ8YIRfylEc5Dcsg
4, Dong Xingxing: The "golden key" to get rid of poverty and become rich is in his own hands
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/nQ2Fke52OvhDQjPg_Lsp1w
5. Sun Heqin: Practice skills hard and "live" a wonderful life
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/cFaHSBEgFPQ-ezU1JkZUqA
6, Mu Yuelian: the "gold medal sister-in-law" with a monthly income of more than 10,000 yuan
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/bfHfvjaQ2hnAihxlkly77Q
7, Li Huaizhao: Mottled hands pour colorful life
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/KsEbg40eXCItTJd8s44IrQ
8, Wang Jinfeng: twenty years of grinding a sword, the original intention does not change the art of learning
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/L0Z8N682ugtcU1yUB2LNbw
9. Zhang Cheng: Hard work on fitter skills Achieved good results in the national competition
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/CAInUWLPzXETV-U-U2kVUQ
Editor: Ren Shushan