After 7 long years, we finally met.
To be honest, they weren’t the people I was expecting to see during this short trip, but certainly they were friends whom I wanted to see. It was a small miscommunication in the snail mail.
We met in an overseas community service trip to Hainan in 2002, they were my students. We taught them English lessons and games, they brought us joy in classes. I’ll never forget the song that we sang together – Cecilia Cheung’s “Xing Yu Xin Yuan”, it was so touching and memorable.
Over the years, we kept in contact through overseas mail, though slow, it kept us bonded. We lost contact for a few years, but luckily, I still had their number. So I told them I was coming, and they were excited.
Here are some photos:
Good old days in the village
Dinner with Shi yu's family
Reunion with old friends - Shi Yu and Liang Lian
Although I wasn’t able to meet up with the whole class, or at least most of them, at least, I was able to meet up with Shi Yu and Liang Lian. I’m glad that they are still in contact with the rest of the class, and they shared with me how the other students/friends are going on with their lives now. I’m glad that they have moved on to greater heights, to better lives…
