“The Never-Ending Space Dream”

“It's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”, said by Neil Armstrong, the first man landed on the moon, after he descended the ladder of lunar module in 1969. I can still remember the live broadcast when the American successfully sent her first astronaut to the moon in the Apollo 11 mission.  During my primary education in New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s, I was crazy for the childhood stories of greatest scientists like Issac Newton, Gaileo Galilei, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking as well as the science fictions like “Star Wars” and “Star Trek”.  I had a dream of being an air force pilot, probably enable me to further become an astronaut, flying to the moon in a space shuttle.  To this end, I studied very hard as a science student during my secondary education and completed it with a distinction in my university entrance examination, aimed at pursuing an engineering degree with a major in aviation technology.  However, my dream was interrupted by my critical physical condition and financial ability during my Bachelor and Masters school life.  I regretfully gave up my space dream and eventually took many years to become a senior management of multinational corporation.

My beloved son David was born in 2005 while my career based in Shenzhen.  David is currently a student of the Senior Four Class at MIEG HaiYin Greatwall Kindergarten, leading to a wonderful childhood with the best education in Shenzhen.  Although David is now a 5 years old boy, he is a space mania too.  Unlike the other kids, David prefers reading the real celebrity stories rather than fairy tales.  Aside from reading “Lion King”, “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse”, “Thomas&Friends”, “Dora the Explorer” and “Noddy” for fun and supplemental English practice during his leisure, David fonds of searching for short stories and photos on the topics of space heros and space travel from the bookstore or Internet by himself, namely, “Escape from Earth”, “Space Travel”, “Working in Space”, “The Apollo Lunar Exploration”, “The Rocket”, “The Boy Embraces the Stars (Stephen Hawking)”, “The Childhood Story of China’s Space Hero Yang Li Wei (China’s first astronaut entered into space)”, “The Encyclopaedia of Universe for Youth” and “The Toy Story (Buzz Lightyear)”, in order to learn more about space science knowledge.  Furthermore, David also likes to design and create some interesting space models such as rockets and solar system together with me over the weekends, in a way to support the establishment of a space museum for his classroom at HaiYin Kindergarten recently.

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My lovely son David and I share a common dream of space.  I hope David could grow up healthily and happily accompanied with meaningful stories and rewarding life experience, not only to realise my unfinished dream, but most importantly to chase his own dream to go to the moon, mars and deep space for the well-being of our world.

David’s Father of MIEG HaiYin Greatwall Kindergarten Senior Four Class

马荣国际教育海印长城儿童学苑大四班杨佳毅爸爸