Chapter 18: Freshman Year
On Wednesday, September 12, the bullet train D3116 at 7:20 was already noon from Fuzhou South to Ningbo East, and I was reading a bunch of introductions from the school on the car all the way.
When I got off the bus and saw people from various schools coming to pick me up, I got into the car of Ningda and drove for a long time, and finally arrived at the north gate. When I got out of the car, there were volunteers to help me with my luggage. I heard that this is a good time to meet younger students and sell things.
I didn't know where I lost my student card, so I rummaged through the boxes and cabinets to find it, but I couldn't find it. The card will be replaced on the first day of entry. There are three more chances to refill the card later. Throw it once a year.
When I got to the dormitory, I started to make my bed. Anne in bed with her mother. Sister Li Huan and I are both from the English class, and from other places, Anne and Xiaoxiao are from the math class, from Wenzhou. It's a mixed sleep.
Anne's mother saw that I was neat and began to praise me for being so self-reliant. They were all accompanied by their parents.
Someone came to me and asked if I was a Christian, and I left my name for her and made an appointment to go to their house on Saturday.
After packing up our beds, luggage, and cleaning the toilet and washstand, we went to have our first dinner together at Yongjiang Restaurant. After that, we didn't eat together, and the class was different.
The next Thursday, I changed the card during the day, and I have been using it for almost 7 years until 2019. It was raining heavily in the evening, and the class assistant came to pick me up for the class meeting because I didn't have an umbrella. When I was about to sign it, I found that someone occupied the ground in my sign-in column, and then it was erased again, and I thought to myself, "Which man is this Liu Pinxian, why is he so careless, I have nowhere to write..
Saturday went to a house church meeting and had dinner. During the meeting, my brothers called me and asked me if I had been contacted by the church in Ningbo. I forgot all the number he gave to Brother Ye Xuanchen. He got in touch and asked me to go to church with him the next day. I told these house church brothers and sisters that I was going to the local church. I didn't come after that.
The next day, Brother Ye Xuanchen came to the south gate to borrow me, and I took a bus halfway there. On 371, I met Danfeng, she asked me how many classes I had, and I said 2 classes."
She was pleasantly surprised: "In the same class as that Liu Pinxian" She pointed in the direction of the front of the car, and there were a lot of people.
I thought to myself, what? Where is Liu Pinxian? Ah, what a sister... Since then, I have known this superlative, excellent character. When I got to the church, Pin Hyun sat in a row behind me, and during the lunch break, I asked Pin Hyun, is this your sister next to me? Looks a bit alike. The person next to him said they were twins. I didn't expect to be able to separate them from day one.
Every day, I have to walk for more than 50 minutes to buy daily necessities in Shuangqiao. At that time, there were no public bicycles, so the bicycle business was very good. The boss was so busy that he didn't have time to eat, assembling hundreds of cars a day. It's a long way to go, so I bought one for 250 yen or so in a week.
Some of my classmates are small wheeled bicycles that are charged with cards, and I like big wheels. But the bikes were so poor that within a few weeks the tires broke. I went to the master to repair it, and he was busy selling cars for a few hundred yuan, and there was time to repair a few tires. I didn't even have time to change the tires. I said I'll come by myself, I watched my brother toss a few times when I was a child, and I have seen him mend tires. Unexpectedly, I tore the tire twice. The quality is so poor. I had to change it. The boss saw that I was a little girl, so he put down his job and got it for me. Every year, a large number of bicycles come in, and there is nowhere to park in the parking garage. There was a gap of 3 months between the senior and freshman years, and there was no time to sell second-hand. So in the new semester, first see which bikes have been dusted for a long time, and the volunteers will put them in a pile and pull the red line. No one took it out for a month, so it was pulled away by truck and sold. I was thinking, it would be nice if there were sharing bikes, which can be recycled.
This semester, the school will have a computer class. I had a lot of word excel and programming, and I didn't have a computer, I didn't have to practice, and I almost failed. In fact, the school has 50 hours of public computer wifi for each of us a month, but I mostly take it to watch "The Legend of Zhen Huan". I remember one time, I saw Shen Meizhuang grounded, it was snowing outside, she opened the curtain and watched, losing interest in the indifferent world. I walked out of the Pao Yugang Science Building, and it was snowing outside. I felt like I was in the play. I am particularly distressed by Shen Meizhuang. On the night she died in childbirth, I used her computer in Lulu's bedroom to watch, her roommates were asleep, I couldn't help crying, but there were as many tears as Zhen Huan. That's when I thought, in fact, friendship is very touching.
Gradually into winter, Ningbo is very cold, I bought snow boots, unexpectedly, just bought back, it snowed on January 4th. I carved Liu Pinxian's name on the snow, and she treated me very well. I thought I would go home to pick up winter clothes on National Day, but I gave up the fare back and forth at 400 and bought a few windbreakers in Ningbo, without quilts. She gave me a blanket to sleep on. Once when it was freezing cold, Sister Li Huan saw my thin and cold clothes, so she took a coat for me to wear.
The rest of the time I wear my short Metersbonwe green trench coat or a long grey trench coat. I can still vividly remember that when I was in political science and metallurgy class, I wore this short green trench coat and talked about the meaning of the Chinese dream and the American dream, and the audience listened attentively and looked at me. Because everyone else was reading with their heads down, but I was out of script, and I spoke very smoothly and clearly.
Get together on Sundays, read books on weekdays, and record some small confusions. For example, the student card falls behind the bed cabinet and cannot be retrieved; I collided with someone early in the morning, and the umbrella broke, but the person was fine. During the physical examination, the rainbow umbrella was dropped, and I stared at other people's rainbow umbrellas on the road every day.
When I returned to the house for the Chinese New Year, my father was on duty in Fuzhou. I, my mother, my second sister, and my younger brother are at home waiting for my father and big sister to come back after the New Year. My mother couldn't stay idle, and I wandered around with my children every day, such as the back mountain. At that time, most of the back mountain was dug to fill the U-shaped valley. It's really a project of Yugong moving mountains. Later, it took 2 years to finally fill in a large park, which shortened the distance we went to the opposite mountain.
My sister brought a computer to us, but my eldest brother-in-law actually bought it. My second sister and I have one each. I call it "Xiao Shuo" and it is very well protected.
In my freshman year, we learned swimming lessons, breaststroke or backstroke, and as long as we could swim 50 meters in our sophomore year, we passed. I didn't learn how to swim, but I bought 2 sets of swimsuits. I thought I was buying a conservative type, who knew that the jacket on the outside was not a swimsuit, but a bikini on the inside.
Roommate Anne said, you can't wear a short-sleeved skirt outside to go into the water, and I also said she was talking nonsense. Later, when we came to the pool, the teacher thought it was strange, but we were allowed to wear short sleeves and skirts to go into the water. The other is Haiyan. In the second week, I bought my aunt's swimsuit again.
What's even more stupid is that I always lose my card, so I pierce my ears and hang it on the key, which is very useful. So I wanted to make a hole in the bus card, but the card was scrapped. At that time, I had a computer, and I didn't know what drama to chase, so I made up the drama first and watched "Soldier Assault".
At the end of the semester, I began to move to the dormitory, and then military training. My roommates gradually moved into the new dormitory, and I stayed the latest until the last day.
On July 8th, I tidied up the whole bedroom by myself and returned it to a neat appearance. I sorted out a large stack of books, moved downstairs and sold them for a dollar, I knew that I would throw it down the window and give it away for nothing. I put on my new army training uniform, took a photo, and left my dormitory.
It turned out that the better ones were waiting for me, and I didn't wait to greet them.