Being a teacher is sometimes a very rewarding career, sometimes like watering flowers and raising trees, in the long years, witnessing the growth of delicate seedlings into leafy towering trees.
Before the beginning of each semester, I always used to pack up some old things, books, newspapers and periodicals, etc., but I did not expect to find the "wish tree" that I made with the children when the first year of junior high school started. I still vaguely remember the joy of creating together at that time, the thick brown branches, holding up large green leaves, and many heart-shaped stickers pasted on them, which were full of their wishes.
Some of the notes are wild, dashing and write that they want to be the richest man in the world, and some are eternally beautiful, and they seriously write that they hope to become a happy person forever... It's all kinds of things that make you laugh.
But what caught my attention was a rose sticker in the corner, with beautiful handwriting, which read, "I want to speak once under the national flag."
It's him?
Yang Xiaorui, who was often silent and spoke with some slight stuttering.
Was this actually his wish? I'm ashamed to have only found out after two years.
As a class teacher, the national flag speech, like other teachers, I always habitually arrange a few active members in the class, every Monday can always see them confident, generous, calmly express themselves, but ignore this is Yang Xiaorui's wish for two years.
I can't imagine how Yang Xiaorui felt when he listened to the speech under the national flag countless times. Is it yearning or loss?
He had revealed this wish, and this rose had been planted in the wasteland by my neglect and its own tiny flaws.
This discovery gave me immediate thoughts of action. As a teacher, many times we are not just teaching, more often than not, I love this group of lively and bright children from the bottom of my heart. I must help Yang Xiaorui fulfill his wish. But in the eyes of the students, Can Yang Xiaorui, who is not good at speaking, really take up and successfully complete it? This is undoubtedly a challenge for me and him.
I informed this in the class, and in the children's surprised eyes, I gestured to Yang Xiaorui with my eyes, can you?
He was dazed for a moment, then immediately nodded, his clear and bright eyes full of joy and determination.
Then I got a few of the speakers in the class to try to answer their incomprehension of my decision, and Zhang Yi and Hu Yihan were arguing in my office, facing a few unconvinced faces, and I didn't ask them to do what I thought. After listening carefully to their thoughts, I said, "Teachers are very happy that you attach great importance to class honors, but no one is born to speak, and don't you also become excellent through many exercises?" ”
"But Yang Xiaorui he..."
I looked at Zhang Yi and used my eyes to stop her from saying something later.
Then he took out Yang Xiaorui's wish list from the drawer, let them pass them through one by one, opened his mouth again, and said in a storytelling tone: "Each of us is a seed that has been blown into the distance by the wind, and some seeds have fallen in the fertile soil, and the sun and rain are abundant, and they can thrive; but there are also some seeds that are wrapped by the wind into more distant wastelands, germinating slowly, and trying to grow..." I stopped, looked at a few of their seemingly ignorant eyes, and continued: "But every seed has the right to blossom in the spring." ”
Then I continued to find Yang Xiaorui, looking at his sincere and serious eyes, I touched his hair and encouraged: "Yang Xiaorui, this time arranging for your national flag speech is a good attempt, we will do our best."
In the end, we set the theme of the speech as "surpassing myself", and what made me even more pleased was that in those days, I saw Zhang Yi and Hu Yihan actively helping Yang Xiaorui, from the selection of manuscripts, the pronunciation of biting words, to the manners of speech, and even the hairstyle of that day began to study... When I watched Yang Xiaorui standing slightly shyly between them, against his usual extremely short inch, I couldn't help but laugh for a moment.
Soon it was the turn of our class to raise the flag, and on the day of the flag raising on Monday, the children in our class, including me, were carefully pinching a handful of sweat. I looked up at Yang Xiaorui on the high platform, the blue sky and white clouds, and the red flag fluttering. He spoke on behalf of class eight (two), and the boy's voice was slow and clear, with only occasional pauses, but not noticeable.
He read: "The title of today's speech is 'Beyond Myself', and standing here at this moment is the best example of surpassing myself, and from now on I will no longer be afraid of any difficulties and obstacles on the way forward." ”
I took the whole class to stand in the class position, each of them with cheers and encouragement written on their faces, and the sun gave them a warm light.
Even the wasteland should have roses blooming, and I just walked a short walk with the children, and during this journey, we trusted each other to grow, constantly pouring love and hope, waiting for the flowers to blossom.