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The Secret

   Left alone at a loss, he sat down with his back to the wall to listen to the cracking of firewood in the kitchen. Tomorrow, some volunteers would visit his home and his father had just decided to entertain them with a hen, which was actually prepared for their spring festival’s dinner, at lunch. However, there was nothing better to treat the volunteers who came to help him back to school. He had a desire to go to school, indeed, but the hen was so rare to his family that he still felt quite upset. He was just a 9-year-old common country boy in a poor family who could not afford his tuition.

  Before the sun rose, his father woke him up, “It’s time to work, my boy. Their visit may last half a day, so we must finish our work in less time than usual.”He followed his father without any word.

  The sun was nearly in the middle of the sky. The village’s monitor and the team of the volunteers reached at his house. “Come here, my boy,” said the monitor happily, “You are so lucky. These sisters and brothers knew that you cannot go to school for the financial problem and they will help you. Isn’t it exciting? Look, they also bring lots of presents to you, school bag, pencils and notebooks. You’re such a lucky boy.” His mother had already burst into tears and kept saying “thank you, thank you…”all the time. He was a little nervous to see so many strangers with such big smiles and also a little uncomfortable as a volunteer pulled him warmly to the center of the crowd in order to take a photo.

 “You must hungry. Let’s have our lunch first, and we can keep talking during the lunch.” His father suggested. In the middle of the table there was the very dish——the cooked hen. “There is no need to entertain us with so many delicious dishes.” One of the volunteers said. “Yes, yes, there is. You have done such a favor to my boy. I don’t know how to thank you.” said his father, “help yourself at home.” All the people enjoyed themselves.

None of his families had reached that dish. Neither did they betray the smallest emotion that how much they had sacrificed for this lunch. His eyes began to brim with tears. “Don’t worry too much about your tuition. We are here to help you back to school.” Another volunteer tried to comfort him. Choking back the tears, he said,“Thank you.”Then he swallowed the rice, with the secret deep in his heart, at a mouthful.

这是几个星期前的assignment, Mr.T 看不懂，他竟然问我：“So the main piont is the HEN, right?”我当时想死的心都有。书上说short story写完要给同学看，看他们的看法如何，虽然已经被提醒说外国人可能无法理解，但是我发现其实某些Chinese似乎也没有找到key point.虽然这篇文字比较简单（竟然被那个死人头姚说我写作水平烂），但是意义深刻的哦~（自我感觉）

这是根据一则故事改编的，湖南卫视的一期节目《洞穴之光》，高中的时候老师给我们看的。

The main idea is that sometimes the volunteers are always showing how great they are and  what they have done to contribute to the society. They don't realize they may also bring trouble to  these families which are in need.

有件事我一直耿耿于怀，今天我一定要说出来: 大一百团大战前，我就决定只加入学生会和中国青年志愿者。过了学生会的面试后，本来想志愿者总当的了的，帮助人么哪来那么多条件，只要有心就可以了啊。面试的时候，竟然问我问什么选择中国青年志愿者协会，而不去爱心同盟，说什么有些同学为了那张志愿者证啊什么的，我当时心里就在想：我原本就只知道青协，我是进了大学才知道中大有个爱心同盟；再说，那张证有什么用啊，就算我为了证来，我也要做事做满期限才能拿到啊，难道那些事都是没有任何贡献的吗？

你想帮人，还要面试，然后别人再告诉你，你面试没有通过，你没有资格当志愿者，这样说起来是不是很好笑。原来帮助别人也要有资格的。

后来，我自己在网上报名了杭州义工联盟，只要填张表就可以了，呵呵，不过也只能寒暑假帮帮忙。暑假的时候参加留守儿童夏令营，虽然有点紧张，不过要帮忙的地方也很少啦，hoho~ 关于那个夏令营的事...e...还是不说了。不过因为暑假结束到现在没在群里说过一句话，被踢出来了，嘻嘻，没关系，再报名就可以啦，我脸皮可真厚。