附件一：志愿者陈卫华和女儿陈汝谦在四川红白小学支教感想

帮助灾区的师生，向他们致敬

陈卫华

我和女儿陈汝谦于2009年4月27-30日经饶及人英语基金的安排自费前往什邡市红白镇中心学校参加志愿者工作。

既是在震后一年，当地生活的艰苦程度仍令我们吃惊，我们分别被安排挤在不同的板房中，用的是一年前空运的军用被子，已有斑斑霉点。外面的水龙头基本没水。我和室友两三天基本就用了一桶水。想洗澡那就太奢侈了，所以我们根本就没敢提。泥地上帐篷里的小摊就是我们的食堂，那种卫生条件我们在上海是不会去的。

所谓学校其实就是一片简易的板房，外面重建工程机器的轰鸣声成了课堂的伴奏。我教的八一班是由两个班合并而成，因为班上总共20多位同学在去年地震中遇难，很多学生都是从倒塌的教学楼下被挖出来的，有的脸上和头上还留有深深的疤痕。

虽然经历了大难，大家总体还是非常乐观。下课时打篮球、跳皮筋。老师谈话间不乏幽默感。

和我同住的刘建老师，今年才26岁，是一个才华横溢的语文老师和诗人。他晚上经常加班，对教学和学生表现的热情让我感动。然而在内心深处，他班上去年15名学生遇难，有的尸体也未找到，他晚上噩梦经常萦绕。

其他我们每天接触的年轻老师也极少怨言，全身心致力于教育事业。在这里，教师这个工作才名副其实的高尚。

虽然我们教学生英语，玩词汇游戏，学英文歌曲，启发他们学习的兴趣，开拓他们的眼界，但他们这几天教给我们的东西，给我们的启发远远大于我们的点滴付出。

虽然只有短短的三天，我们离开自己的学生及那些年轻教师时仍依依不舍。我希望不久能回来，看看他们9月要竣工的新教学楼。看看我们结识的在如此艰苦环境下坚持学习和教学的同学和老师。

地震灾区在一年后还是非常需要帮助。电器（电视机和电水壶等）可以使他们生活更方便。他们的心里也需要更多的慰藉。

所以我希望能有更多的人继续关注他们，更多的人加入志愿者队伍，在帮助他们的同时，自己也不断受到人生的启发。

从现在起，我们每天都会深深地祝福红白学校的师生和他们的家人平安，希望他们的家园尽快建好，希望他们尽快恢复正常的生活。我们会为他们未来的幸福生活而祈祷。

（注：作者是中国日报上海首席记者与评论员） 

Salute and help quake survivors

Chen Weihua

My daughter Chen Ruqian and I worked as volunteers at the Hongbai School in Shifang of Sichuan province from April 27-30. It was arranged by the Cha English Teaching Foundation, but we were so glad that we paid for our own trips.

Life is still hard there even a year after the quake. We were squeezed into two different makeshift shelter houses for young teachers. Our army quilts, tainted with molds, were air dropped a year ago. The tap in the shelter area ran dry most of the time. In fact, my roommate and I used only one bucket of water in about three days. Taking a shower is simply a luxury we would never ask for. The few food stands in the tents set up on the muddy ground were our canteen, where minimum sanitation standards were observed.

The school is a bunch of makeshift shelter houses. The noise of bulldozers and pile-drivers accompanied our lecturing. The class I taught was a merger of two previous classes, after more than 20 lives were lost. Many students were dug out from the debris and many have scars on their faces and scalps. More than 150 students and seven teachers lost their lives during the disaster.

Despite the calamity a year ago, most students and teachers are relatively optimistic. Students frolicked after class, played basketball and rubber band jumping. Teachers also exhibited a good sense of humor in conversation.

My roommate, Liu Jian, is a 26-year-old Chinese language teacher and a poet. He often works late and loves his students and his job. But late at night, he is often haunted by bad dreams since 15 of his students perished last year, with some bodies never found.

Other young teachers we got to know also showed great enthusiasm in their work. This is where the profession of being a teacher becomes truly lofty.

Though we worked hard to teach English, play words games, sing English songs and try to open their horizon and inspire them in study and life, both of us found that we learned more from them and we instead were constantly inspired.

Even we were there for only three days, leaving was never easy. We felt so emotionally connected to them. We want to be back, especially after September when their new school building is put into use. We miss the teachers and students who live, study and teach under such a tough situation.

Help is still desperately needed even a year from the seismic tremor. Electric appliances, such as TV sets and electric pots, would help make their life easier. Mental and psychological comforting is also much needed to help them move on in their life.

More people should join and work as volunteers to help the quake survivors, while they themselves get inspired too.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the students, teachers and their families. We pray for a speedy reconstruction of their homeland, we pray for their future and happiness.