078 Chapter 41 Return to the Flag Team
I've been planning to find an opportunity to have a meal with the dormitory directors in the next two days, and after a while they will leave one after another, and no one will be able to make up for it. After all, they have taken good care of me and taught me a lot of things over the past year, so it makes sense that you should treat them to a meal before you leave!
I shared my thoughts with the Navy seniors. It just so happened that he thought the same way, so the two of us discussed it, and planned to send the seniors together in the name of the juniors. The Navy senior is a junior this year, and it is time for me to send him away next year, they have lived together for three years, and the relationship between them is logically deeper than mine.
Of course, feelings are not about the length of time, they just look at people.
However, the seniors have not been free, because they all have their own affairs, and they have to go to different banquets every night, between classmates, between fellow villagers, and between teachers, and in the circle where they are going to graduate school, so that they have not been able to get together people.
The school sports meeting is held on Friday and Saturday for a total of two days, and the library is closed for the whole school during the school holiday in order to actively participate in the whole school.
I'm looking forward to such a grand event, the seniors of the college sophomore and junior years have rehearsed for a long time just to rehearse the performance of the opening ceremony, at the beginning the minister proposed that I carry the college flag and walk in front of the phalanx, after all, I am now 185 net height, my figure is still quite burly and tall, and my image is not bad, it is really sunny.
At first, I was going to do this, but one day Cai Qiushan told me that one of their flag guards had a classmate who had gone home, and now there was still a lack of someone, and now they were looking for the right person everywhere and asked me if I wanted to do it.
Because I said before that I was on the school flag team in high school, of course, I didn't say that I was just a substitute, and I didn't really go on stage to raise the national flag a few times in the two years of high school (there was an older generation of flag team in the first year of high school). I have always longed to stand under the national flag and look at the rising national flag, of course, it would be better if the person who raised the national flag was me, in my opinion, how solemn it is, at the moment under the national flag, I will always put aside those cranky thoughts, just look at the blood-red fluttering flag, as if the soul has been purified, a sense of honor and pride arise spontaneously, I am so longing for that feeling, I think many people will never be able to understand that feeling.
When I participated in the national flag team training in high school, the teacher kept telling us:
"After graduation, we will be given a card and put it in the portfolio, and when we go to college and then select people, many schools will re-enlist those of us who have worked in high school, and the college flag team will not have many benefits compared to high school. It is more convenient to have this certificate to join the party or something. ”
Of course, at that time, every teacher in high school described college as the same as heaven, and now I realize that although college is not hell, it is definitely not heaven for many people.
When I arrived at university, I didn't get a notice, and at first I thought that there were too many freshmen in our school who had worked on the flag team in high school, and they didn't look down on me like this.
Later, I learned from Ah Cai that our school was only selecting a group of people from among the members of the student council and then training them, not as the high school teacher said.
Over the past year, I have watched Ah Cai get up at about six o'clock every Monday, wash and dress, and go to raise the national flag in a proper manner, although he always complains that he is too tired, but I can see his pride, I envy him at such a time, but I can't say it, just occasionally I will be in a daze with the flag bearer's dress hanging in the dormitory.
And now I have the choice to put on this dress again, even if it is only for a few days, even if it is only a zero-hour substitute, and finally I resolutely chose the national flag between carrying the national flag or carrying the college flag, which may be the only opportunity for me to raise the national flag in four years of college.
During the training, the leader who managed the national flag team class took a look at it, said something that the leader should say, and asked me a few words, and finally said to do a good job, and went to work.
Another classmate and I were placed under the national flag in the track and field field, and we only needed to stand on one left and one right, and saluting was the only action when the national flag was raised, and the national flag could be withdrawn after it was raised. I practiced with them all afternoon in a row, walking in unison, standing posture, anyway, the point is to stand, they said that it might take several novels to stand.
During the rehearsal of the opening ceremony of the sports meeting the next day, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, as soon as the leader said that he was ready, I and the buddy next to me walked up and down the national flag platform with our heads held high, and stood motionless.
It seems that the phalanx of the various colleges on the side of the rostrum has encountered various problems at the beginning, and more than an hour has passed after a continuous adjustment, and the leaders seem to have forgotten about the two of us, and they have not let us disband or anything, we have been standing there like sculptures.
The scorching sun in the afternoon, the scorching heat, coupled with this thick clothes, the sun burned my black leather shoes were hot, and in less than half an hour I was sweating, the scalp covered in the hat was itchy, the sweat on my forehead and face flowed all the way to my chin, and then dripped down, my whole vest was wet, very uncomfortable, really uncomfortable. But I know I can't move, I can't wipe my sweat, I can't drink water, it's just that the Adam's apple keeps rolling up and down, and it's my mouth and throat that I keep awake.
I followed the example they did, lifting my heels a little too much and leaning forward a little bit to not only refresh me, but also to try not to suffer from heat stroke. I didn't even dare to turn my head slightly to see what was going on with the guy next to me, I tried to look at him with my peripheral vision, but I couldn't see anything, and finally stared at the rostrum in front of me.
At this moment, I realized how hard it was for the police and soldiers to stand guard and stand all day.
By 5 p.m., I had been standing for almost two hours, and at this time the class had already begun to end, and many students came to the track and field to watch, rehearse the opening ceremony and play sports on the track and field. There are also many family members of teachers who bring their children to play in the neighborhood.
Countless people walked in front of the flagpole, some even took out their mobile phones to take pictures of us, or pointed and talked there, and I wondered if my face was now spent and sweated so much. But there are so many pedestrians watching, I am even more upright at the moment, cheering up, after all, I can't be ashamed of wearing this clothes, especially since I am still a temporary worker, and I can't have problems, I must always be in good spirits.
When I felt my feet and legs tingle, I felt like I had been hit by something, and I didn't dare to look down, I still looked straight ahead, and I didn't even move. I thought it was a soccer ball or something, and after a while a kid came and took the ball away and said hard work. At this moment I felt completely tired, as if I could stand for another two hours.
Occasionally, a few classmates or seniors from our college walked by, and when they saw me, they said, "Isn't this our college's junior?"
Although I was still solemn, I was already very excited in my heart, and I think this was the sense of honor and pride, and even satisfied my little vanity.
It was close to six o'clock before the rehearsal ended, and finally the national flag was really raised, and we were able to disband, and we walked back together. There was nothing wrong with every aspect of the flag team today, and they also wanted us to be praised by the leaders, so even though everyone was tired, there was a smile on their faces.
As soon as it was disbanded, everyone immediately collapsed in place, with different shapes, and it seemed that they had changed in an instant, some were sitting, some were loose, some were drinking, some were smoking and chatting.
What makes us the most envious is that there are family members who come to bring water and drinks, but they are chatting and joking there, and I stand aside a little awkwardly, after all, I don't know them very well.
The captain came over and patted me on the shoulder and said a few words:
"Thank you for your help, thank you, you have to behave well, thanks to you. ”
He also handed me a cigarette, which I took with a smile, but did not smoke it. Along the way, I listened to them tell all kinds of interesting stories about the flag team and interesting stories between various colleges. I went back to the dormitory with Ah Cai, changed my clothes and went to take a shower.
These clothes seem to stink a little. I asked Ah Cai if he wanted to wash it? He said no, they hadn't washed the clothes for a year, as if they were afraid that they would lose color after washing, and they said that they would just use it, and they didn't wear it every day. I don't know how many years this dress has been used, anyway, there is always a smell, maybe this is the taste of the legendary man is a man!