My Han Teacher 7 Teacher in Love / 我的漢人老師 7 老師談戀愛

Teacher in Love

The janitor told our teacher that if she followed the only road of our village to its end, she would find a small waterfall. That's the place we call Water Source Site, which gives us drinking water. 

The teacher asks us whether we have been there and how to get there. Kai tells her we go there to swim and catch crabs. But, we need big brothers to take us there, because it's a little steep, and we need to help each other so we won't fall. The teacher asks us to ask some big brothers to take her there after school.

Kuang and Dai find 2 big brothers from the fifth grade. After class, the teacher borrows the janitor's small scooter. She says, "the mean dogs will never catch up this scooter," and grins, looking very proud. Dai says, "Teacher, let me sit at the back, if mean dogs come, I help you kick them away!" The teacher thinks a while and says, "OK." The rest of us take our bikes. We are not afraid of mean dogs. Some girls want to come along, too. But, they have to walk. Not enough bikes, and we don't want to take girls on our bikes.

The teacher's scooter shoots out. We peddle behind like crazy mice on wheel. We are all huffing and puffing when we get there. 

"Listen," the teacher stops us, "it's water." She looks so excited already. We don't understand, it's JUST water!

The big brothers lead the way, we have to get down to a winding slope to the water site. 

"Teacher, grab the plants at your sides if you feel falling," says a big brother.

"Grab the vine that sticks out to help you walk," says the other brother. But the teacher grabs his shirt instead. Step by step, slowly, we reach the water.

"I saw it! I saw it! I saw the water fall!" the teacher cries out. The big brothers turn their head to look at the teacher; they snigger, and we, too. Now they know our teacher is really a first grader.

We reach the end of the slope and with a big jump, here we are, standing by a small waterfall pouring its water to our natural swimming pool. The water continues streaming down and joins the big river where we had our field trip. 

The second we reach the pool, we take off the clothes and jump right in, splashing and water fighting, making lots of noises, louder then the waterfall. Our teacher is just standing there, staring at the waterfall, for a long long time. She shakes her head, gently, she whispers something, though we can't quite hear it, but I believe she says, "Amazing, too beautiful to be true."

The teacher rolls up her pants, she steps into the water and picks a big rock nearby the fall to sit. She sits there and looks up to the waterfall, like a statue. Her hair now is covered with tiny water drops. It looks like she is enchanted by the water fall. It looks like she is IN LOVE.

"Why are you staring at the waterfall?" asked Li-Chuang.

"Because it's beautiful. Don't you star at something that's beautiful?"

"Yes, but a waterfall is just a waterfall, is it beautiful?"

"Yes, absolutely. maybe because you grew up with the waterfall, it's not that beautiful to you anymore," says the teacher. "Back home, if I want to see a waterfall, I have to travel for a long time to the mountains to find it, when I find it, I have to camp beside it for a few days to enjoy it. Here, the waterfall just stays here, waiting for you to visit. And you can come as often as you want! You are lucky!"

Are we? we don't quite feel the same way. But now we know Han people are different from us. Common things to us like eating baby bees are unusual to them. This waterfall is the same. 

After a good swim, comes the crab time, of course, our usual routine. The teacher was not happy about that, she says we "ruin" the scenery. We don't know what that means. How can we ruin it when you can't even touch it? She says next time she'll come here by herself so she can quietly enjoy her waterfall. Since when did the waterfall become hers? Strange!

And she means it. Next time, and many many times more, she goes by herself, with the scooter.

"What are you doing at the waterfall?" we ask, "you don't swim, and you don't barbecue crabs."

"It's a secret between me and the waterfall," she says.

"I know, " somebody says, "you go there to meet your lover." Then everybody starts oohing and ahhing.

"Right," the teacher says, our eyes get bigger with a long oooooooh.

"I go there to meet my lover, my waterfall is my lover. I have to love it because you don't. "

Well, of course we love our waterfall, it's our life, we drink it, but we are not IN love with it like our teacher. We hope the teacher loves not only the waterfall but all of us, too.

老師談戀愛

工友伯伯告訴老師，沿著路走到村子的盡頭，是我們村子的水源地，那裡有一個小瀑布，很漂亮，老師可以去看看。老師一聽，馬上跑來問我們有沒有去過那裡。俊凱說：“我們都去那裡游泳還有捉螃蟹！但是要有大哥哥帶，因為要走到瀑布那裡有一點陡，要互相幫忙，才不會摔下來。老師要我們找大哥哥一起帶她去看看。

光正和阿岱找了兩個五年級的大哥哥，下課後，老師騎著工友伯伯的小摩托車載著阿岱，光正和大哥哥們騎腳踏車，一起出發到水源地。幾個女生聽到老師要去水源地，也跟著來。下午四五點的天氣很涼爽，騎摩托車很舒服，也比較不怕狗追，阿岱叫老師別擔心，他有帶柳丁，如果有狗衝出來，他會把它們趕走。

到了水源地，把摩托車停在入口，老師聽到嘩啦嘩啦的水聲，說：“好期待喔！“

我們要走一段下坡小徑才能到瀑布，小徑真的很小，只能一個人過，大哥哥在前面開路，老師跟在後面，我們告訴老師可以抓住坡壁旁邊的樹藤，才不會摔倒，沒想到老師抓著大哥哥的衣服不放，不過很快的老師就能自己走得很順了。

“看到了！看到了！看到瀑布了！“ 老師好興奮的大叫。大哥哥回頭看老師，他們在偷笑，我們也笑。他們終於知道我們老師真的很像一年級一樣。

走到盡頭，再跳下大概一個人高度的坡坎，就到達了。瀑布衝下來的地方，形成一個大水池，池水又繼續往下流，流到我們遠足的那條溪。我們一到池邊，就脫下上衣，跳進池子裡游泳玩水。老師一直看著瀑布，一邊搖頭說：怎們會有這麼美的地方！“

老師捲起褲管，進入水池，找了一塊最靠近瀑布的大石頭坐下來，她還是盯著瀑布一直看，瀑布濺起的小水珠，佈滿了老師的頭髮。

“你為甚麼一直看瀑布？“ 麗娟問老師。

“因為瀑布很美阿！ 看到美的東西你會不會一直看？“ 老師問。

“會阿，可是瀑布就是瀑布阿，有很美嗎？“ 麗娟說。

“很美阿，你們大概從小就知道這個瀑布，所以不覺得它很美，以前老師要看瀑布，要坐很久的車到山上，走很久的路才能到，看到瀑布都捨不得回家，還要搭帳篷睡在它旁邊一兩天，才捨得回家，你們好幸福，瀑布就在這裡等你們隨時來看。“

大家聽老師這樣講，都覺得不可思議，不過我們都知道住在平地的漢人和我們不一樣，我們覺得很平常的東西，他們可能覺得很厲害，我們覺得很厲害的東西，他們可能覺得很普通。像我們覺得虎頭蜂的蛹很好吃，老師就嚇的哇哇叫，我們覺得瀑布很普通，老師卻很著迷，不知道為甚麼。

我們玩夠了，也抓了幾隻螃蟹烤來吃，老師卻在旁邊搖頭，說我們殺風景，我們不知道什麼是殺風景，風景又摸不到怎麼殺？但是老師說她下次要自己來，安靜的享受她的瀑布。老師竟然把瀑布變成她的，這次換我們搖頭了。

可是真的耶！ 下次老師真的自己去了，而且不只一次，而且都是借工友伯伯的摩托車上去的，她都不要我們跟，我們問老師：“老師，你又不游泳，也不捉螃蟹，那你常常到瀑布那裡做什麼？“

老師說：“這是我和瀑布的祕密，怎麼可以告訴你。“

有人說，老師去那裡戀愛，老師說：對啊，我跟瀑布談戀愛了，瀑布這麼美都沒有人愛她，只好我來愛囉。“

我們當然也愛我們的瀑布，因為我們需要它的水喝啊，但是我們可不會跟它談戀愛，太瘋狂了。希望老師不只愛我們的瀑布，還要愛我們全部才好。

My Han Teacher 6 / 我的漢人老師 6

Popcorn

Our teacher tells us, to thank us for giving her barbecued crabs on the day of field trip, she will make some popcorn for us. Why popcorn? because we had no ideas what popcorn was when the teacher was trying to teach an unit in our Nature & Science class. To get popcorn, our teacher had to go to the city, which means 2 hours of bus trip. After getting the popcorn, she borrowed a big pan and a small gas stove from the janitor. We are all so excited. It feels like the teacher is going to do some magic.

We gather around the pan and stove. The teacher shows us the small bag of popcorn, "See? the grains are dry. Only the dry ones will do."

We have corns, but never eat them dry. Don't know how the dry corns become popcorns.

The teacher pours in some oil to the pan, and sends the grains sliding down the pan. She stirs them a little, then puts the lid on.
"Now, let's wait for the fireworks," she said.
Fireworks? we look at one another, what does that mean?

We wait, and wait. It's so quiet and still. Only our eyes move around, from the pot, to the teacher, to each other. The teacher's eyes are moving around, too, moving from face to face. Just when our eyes are about to fight in the air, 'POP' the first firework brings our eyes to the pan. Then, pop pop! pop! pop pop pop! It IS fireworks! The lid also goes Dong Dong Dong like a drummer. Our eyes get big, our mouths get big, big 'ah' coming out of our big mouths.

Pop pop pop, Dong dong, Ah....
pop pop pop, Dong dong, Ah...
Pop Dong, ah, pop dong...
Ah...pop....pop.....pop....pop...dong

We are making a popcorn percussion!

Not long, the pop gets quieter and lighter, then it comes to a complete silence. We look at each other, Now what? 
With a 'swash,' the teacher quickly takes off the lid. What a magic! the dry grains are gone! Only the white, plump, fluffy corn flowers! and they smell like flowers, too!
The teacher snatches some salt and sprinkle it to the flowers, then without her telling us what to do, we all rush to get our lunch bowls and get into a line for the popcorns. All the popcorn is soon gone. It is so good that even the ones dropped on the ground are picked up and popped into our mouths.

I don't know how to describe the taste of it. It's like spongy cotton balls rolling in the mouth.
"Is it good?" the teacher asks.
We all nod and smile, only Dan rolls his eyes and says, "No, it's not right with salt. You should put sugar to make it better." The second he said it, we all roll our eyes and say, "Yes, yes, with sugar is better."
"No, no, salt is better, never have it with sugar," the teacher says.
"Then, you should try it with sugar, and you'll see," Dan is not giving up.
“Ok, let's make another pan and see if it's better with sugar," the teacher says.
"Yeah!" we cheer, and Dan springs from his seat and says, "I'm going home to bring some sugar." He dashes out of the classroom as soon as he said it.

The teacher doesn't know this is our trick to get more popcorn, and Dan knows the trick better than anyone else.
Now the popcorn percussion is ready to play again. Pop- pop- dong- dong- Ah....Yeah!

爆米花

老師說，為了謝謝我們的遠足給她的烤螃蟹，她要做爆米花給我們吃，因為上自然課時，講到爆米花我們都不知道那是甚麼東西。老師特別到花蓮市的商店去買的喔。她跟工友伯伯借了一個大炒鍋，還有一個小瓦斯爐。大家都好興奮，好像老師要變魔術一樣。

我們圍在爐子旁，老師拿起一包爆米花說：看啊，這就是乾的玉米粒。“

我們也種玉米，怎麼也想不透，這些乾乾的玉米粒怎麼會爆開。

老師在炒鍋裡倒入一些油，然後玉米粒嘩啦嘩啦像溜滑梯一樣滾入鍋內。老師把玉米粒和油拌一拌，然後蓋上鍋蓋。

“現在就等它放鞭炮！“ 老師說。

放鞭炮？大家你看我，我看你， 都不知道老師說的是甚麼意思。

大家等著。好安靜。只有眼睛不安靜，一直動來動去。一下盯著鍋子，一下看著老師，一下看著對面的人，老師的眼睛也不安靜，一直看著我們，就在大家的眼睛要開始打架的時候，“啵！“ 第一響鞭炮聲把大家的眼睛帶回鍋子上，然後，啵啵！啵！啵啵啵！果真開始放鞭炮了，鍋蓋也被彈起的米花打得叮咚響像個鼓手一樣。大家的眼睛都睜的大大的，嘴巴也張的大大的！

啵啵啵！ 咚咚咚！ 啊！

啵啵啵！ 咚咚咚！ 啊！

啵！咚！阿！啵！咚！

啊！啵！啵！啵！咚！

好熱鬧的爆米花打擊樂啊。

不久，啵啵的聲音越來越輕，越來越少。然後就完全靜止。就在這時後，刷一聲，老師把蓋子打開，玉米粒不見了，只看到白花花的玉米花，大家一陣歡呼聲。哇！哇！哇！

老師抓起一撮鹽，像仙女一樣撒向鍋子，不等老師說，我們馬上衝去拿午餐的碗，然後排好隊，準備吃玉米花。一大鍋的玉米花馬上就分光光了。啊，真是太好吃了，連掉在地上的都捨不得，也撿起來吃。

好奇特的食物，像硬硬的海綿一樣在嘴裡彈來彈去。

老師問大家好不好吃，大家只顧著吃，猛點頭還有傻笑，突然進貴說：“鹹的不好吃，要放糖才對。“  大家聽了都跟著說，對嘛！要甜的才好吃。

老師說：不對不對，鹹的才好吃。從沒吃過甜的。

進貴說：那你更要試試看甜的啊，看是不是甜的比較好吃。

老師絕對沒想到，第一次吃玉米花的我們竟然對味道有意見。

我看她搖瑤頭說，好，再爆一鍋甜的給你們吃。

進貴說：“我回去拿糖。“ 一說完，馬上衝回家。

老師都不知道，這是我們的妙計，連傻呼呼的鄧進貴都知道，說不好吃，才能再多吃一點，耶！爆米花打擊樂再演奏一次！啵啵！ 咚咚！ 啊！耶！

My Han Teacher 5: A Field Trip/ 我的漢人老師 5: 遠足

A Field Trip

We have our field trip today, and the whole school is going, that means more than 100 people! For us, it is a big thing. The place for our field trip is the creek behind the village. Sometimes we go there, but never with the whole school. So, it's quite exciting for us. When we gather in the morning, the teacher looks at us with her signature "surprise" look.

"Do you bring anything for the field trip?" she asks.

"Yes, I brought this and... this." Kwang shows her a box of matches and a pocket knife.

"Why are you bringing these?" again, the teacher is surprised. "It's dangerous, playing with fire and knives, don't you know that? You don't bring snacks for field trips like chocolate or cookies...?"

Here she comes again! she really doesn't know anything! We don't have money for those things! and the river will give us things to eat.
"Don't you worry, teacher, later the matches and the knife will do the snack tricks. You just wait and see."
The teacher frowns. We know she doesn't believe us.

When we arrive, we see the principal and the janitor. The janitor got two big food containers on his motorbike, insides are the boiled eggs we normally have (a part of the nutrition plan provided by the government). The principal gives each of us two oranges (from his own garden), one bun, and some cookies. After that, we are dismissed.

Yeah, we can't wait to take off our clothes and jump into the river for a good swim or water fight. The peaceful water is quickly churned up with splashes, laughters, and noises. The girls are shy to take off their clothes. They just sat on the big rocks and chat. Some are catching crabs.

The teachers get together for their own barbecue. With a quick grip, Teacher Tien quickly catches two frogs from under a rock, and within a few seconds, the frogs are stretched for barbecue. He did it so fast like a show that all the other teachers clap and cheer. The smell of the barbecue makes us hungry too! Some boys from the senior class start to catch fish. They use their clothes as fish nets and hold hands to form a circle. The fish are now trapped in the circle. Then they narrow the circle to catch the fish. They give us some fish. We dig up taros and give them some, too. The knifes are used to cut the food, and the matches are now helping make the fire. When we start our own barbecue, our teacher comes over to check on us.
"No wonder you don't need to bring snacks." She smiles, her eyes twinkles with admiration.
We give her the biggest crab. She says this is the field trip with the most "wild fun" she has ever had. "wild fun? what is that?" we ask.
" It's the fun you can get from the wild. But you are sort of living in the wild, you probably won't feel the fun I'm having now."

"So what did you do on a field trip?" Kai asks.
"Mostly we just fill up our backpacks with junk food and lunch. Then we finish all the food in an amusement park. After we take all the rides, roller coaster, bumper cars...then we go home."

"Wow!" everybody cries out, "so cool!"

"Really? I love to go! But we don't have any amusement park here," Dan said, and everybody sighs.

"Don't be silly!" the teacher tries to cheer us up, " Your field trip is a real one. A knife, some matches, and you have all the fun in the field...Kids in the city will never understand this fun..."

"But...we like to have your field trips, too!"

"That's true, different kinds of fun," said the teacher, her voice trails off.

The teacher looks far into the surrounding mountains, then sees us gathering around the dying fire to dry our clothes. She mumbles, "if Han kids get lost in these mountains, they won't be able to survive. But you will and I admire that. These mountains are your amusement park."

We've never thought our mountains an amusement park, but it is like the teacher said, although we still envy the kids who go to amusement parks on field trips. 

Wouldn't it be nice if we can swap our trips? We'd love to go to their amusement parks and have their snack, and I believe they'd enjoy the "wild fun," just as much as our teacher did.

遠足 （校外教學）

今天我們全校要去遠足， 一百多人喔。遠足的地方就是村子後面的溪邊，雖然我們有時會到溪邊玩，可是從來沒有這麼多人一起去，所以還是有點興奮。早上集合的時候，老師問我們怎麼好像甚麼也沒有帶，謝光正說：“有阿，我帶了這個和這個。“ 原來是火柴和小刀。老師有點驚訝的說：“你們為甚麼要帶這些東西，佷危險耶，你們遠足不帶零食阿？像乖乖啊 ，巧克力阿？“

老師又來了，她真是甚麼也不懂，我們沒有錢買乖乖啊，而且要吃的東西河裡都有啊。俊凱告訴老師，不要擔心，等一下火柴和刀子會幫我們會變出東西吃。老師皺著眉頭，好像不太相信我們。

到了河邊，校長和工友伯伯已經在那邊等我們了，他的摩托車帶了兩個大餐筒，裡面應該有我們常吃的水煮蛋。 校長發給我們每人兩個柳丁（他自己種的喔），一個饅頭，和餅乾。然後我們就解散了。耶！我們一個個脫了衣服，跳進河裡游泳，打水戰。平靜的河水， 一下子濺起一叢叢的大水花，水聲、笑聲，好熱鬧。女生不敢脫衣服，他們坐在大石頭上聊天，有的捉螃蟹。

老師們開始烤肉，添福老師還在河邊石頭旁捉了幾隻青蛙，利落的刀法三兩下就把青蛙處理好了，其他老師們都拍手喊讚。烤肉的香味傳出來的時候，我們也餓了，大哥哥們開始趕魚，他們把衣服當魚網，幾個人一起圍圈圈把魚圈起來，然後圈圈越縮越小，魚就被抓住了，我們也分到幾條魚，然後還有人去挖芋頭，要烤芋頭，還有大姐姐給的螃蟹，我們開始升起火來的時候，老師走過來看，看我們有那麼多東西吃，她高興的說：“難怪你們不用帶零食。” 我們給老師一隻最大的螃蟹，她說這是她參加過最有“野趣”的遠足，我們問老師什麼是野趣，老師說：“就是野外的樂趣阿，不過你們本來住在大自然裡面了，應該不會像我這樣覺得有趣!”

俊凱問：“ 那你們遠足都做些甚麼？“

老師說：就是每個人把背包裝滿零食和午餐，到遊樂園把零食吃光、午餐吃光、坐雲霄飛車、碰碰車，把所有遊樂器材都玩過，然後回家。” “哇！” 大家一起驚呼，“好棒！”

進貴說：“有這樣的遠足阿？! 好想去喔！” “我們花蓮都沒有遊樂園， 只在電視上看過。” 大家一起嘆口氣。

“傻瓜，你們這樣才是遠足!一把刀，一盒火柴就玩得那麼高興。” 老師說。

“可是，我們也想要你們那樣的遠足!”

老師愣了一下，說：”說得也是！遊樂園跟這裡是不一樣的樂趣。“  

老師眼睛看向四面圍繞的高山，看到我們圍在餘火旁邊烘衣服，她有些喃喃自語：”如果漢人的孩子迷失在這山裡，大概活不了，可是你們卻一定有生存下來的本事，老師很佩服你們呢！這些山就是妳們的遊樂園啊。 “

我們從沒有把這些山當成遊樂園，但是老師這麼一講，好像很有道理，雖然還是很羨慕去遊樂園的遠足。希望有一天學校的遠足可以交換，漢人小朋友到我們的遊樂園體會一下“野趣“，我們去他們的遊樂園坐雲霄飛車，那就太棒了！

我的漢人老師 4-2

Our Han Teacher 4-2

Home visit 2

Luckily, the teacher has us to carry the big bag of bamboo tube rice for her so that she can walk to Kuang's house at ease. kuang's grandmother has a vegetable garden in the back yard and she is working there when we arrive. Kuang goes to call her while we are waiting in the house. When the grandmother sees the teacher, she says, "sorry to keep you waiting, teacher. " Then she gives the teacher a long look and says,"You look so young." Later, she gives the teacher a small glass of thing to drink. "Here, teacher, have a taste our millet wine."

The teacher is startled, "wine? now? no no no, it's 10 in the morning, I can't drink now, I have to work later, if I get drunk, I will be in trouble. thanks anyway."

"No, you won't get drunk," the grandmother insists, "you'll get lots of energy."

"Really, I'm not a good drinker, water will be just fine for me, thank you."

Kuang gives teacher a glass of water. 

"I hope my Kuang has behaved at school, hasn't he?" asks the grandmother.

"Yes, he has, he helps me a lot."

"Good. "Then the grandmother asks, "how old are you, teacher?"

"Huh?" the teacher is startled again, "Me?...huh..20," embarrassed.

"It's great!" the grandmother claps, " I have a grandson, 19 this year, I'll ask him to marry you, then you can stay here," Her laugh was so loud. Kuang rolls his eyes.

"Thank you, but I'm not thinking about getting married, yet." the teacher turns red like a maple tree in winter.

Just then, Kuang's great uncle comes in. Two field mice in his hands. When knowing the teacher comes to visit, he immediately says, "Teacher, I just got these field mice, very fresh, you take this one home for dinner." The dead mouse dangles in front of the teacher. Her eyes turn big, and her face now again as white as the white moon. It looks like she's going to faint, 

"Mouse? for dinner?"

"Teacher, this is not house mice, it's field mice. They eat only corns and greens, very clean."

"Yes, teacher, " Kuang adds, "very good, better than chicken. you should try."

The teacher shakes her head, "No, I mean...I don't know how to cook the mouse. Maybe next time when you cook it, I can come and see..."
"Ok, then. come next time..." the great uncle said.
The teacher says she has to visit the next house so she says good-bye to the grandma.
"Leaving so soon?" the grandma says, "When my grandson comes back, I'll invite you to come and have some mouse meat with us, then. " The teacher gave a stiff smile, so stiff we think it's going to crack on her face.

As we walk out of the house, we hear the teacher heaves a big sigh.  She smiles and shakes her head and asks us, " Tell me, what kind of food the next grandma would treat me?"

"I know," Guei cries out, "bees' babies."

"What? little bees?" The teacher frowns.

"No, we knock down the beehive and eat the white babies inside," Guei said.

"Cocoons!? You eat the cocoons?" Everybody nods. The teacher's eyes turn big again.

"Maybe you'll get some flying mouse, boar, or even bear!" Everybody jumps in with wild answers. The teacher's eyes get bigger and bigger. "Really!?" She asked,

"Of course not!" Kuang says, "We don't even have enough to eat! Share with you? No way!"

The teacher heaves a big sigh of relief again.

She doesn't know anything about us. Just thinking about these food makes our mouths watering. Wild animals are now hard to catch; even the ones caught are mostly sold to wild game restaurants for money, not for us to eat. 

This home visit is like a food visit to our teacher . Although she still has little idea about what we do at home, at least she knows what we like to eat. Now everybody is waiting to see the look on the teacher's face when she is really invited to have the field mice feast with a potential husband.

我的漢人老師4-2

家庭訪問 2

還好我們幫老師提竹筒飯，老師才能走到光正家。 光正的奶奶在房子後面種菜，我們在房子裡等，光正去把奶奶叫回來。奶奶回來後看見老師說：“對不起，老師，讓老師等，老師好年輕喔。“ 說完就倒了一杯小米酒要請老師喝。
“這是我們的小米酒，請老師喝一點。“
老師一聽，嚇一大跳，“不行不行，現在才早上十點，不可以喝酒，等一下醉了，就沒辦法上班了，謝謝。“
“不會醉，喝了有精神！“ 奶奶說。
“真的不行，我不太會喝酒，還是謝謝， 我喝開水就好了。“
光正馬上給老師倒一杯水。
“我們光正不乖，是不是？老師？“ 奶奶問。
“不會啊， 很可愛，也很會幫忙。“老師急忙說。
“那就好， “接著奶奶又問：“老師你幾歲？“
“啊？“老師又嚇了一跳，“我...20歲，“老師不好意思的說。
“啊，太好了，我另一個孫子19歲，我叫他娶你，你就嫁來我們這邊好了。“奶奶笑的開心，還拍手。
“謝謝，可是我還不想結婚。“老師整個臉都紅起來了。

這時候，光正的舅公回來了，手上拿了兩隻剛抓到的田鼠，知道是老師來了，就拿一隻田鼠給老師，"老師， 這是剛剛抓到的田鼠，  一隻給老師回去當晚餐。“ 老師一看，臉又像月亮一樣白， 好像快暈倒了， "老鼠?晚餐?"
"老師， 這不是老鼠， 是田鼠， 他們只吃玉米和青菜， 很乾淨。" 舅公趕緊解釋
"是阿， 很好吃， 肉很嫩喔， 比雞肉還好吃。" 光正接著說
老師還是搖搖頭說:" 謝謝， 可是我不會煮老鼠， 還是下次你們煮我再來吃好了。"
舅公說:" 好阿， 那一定要來喔。"
說完老師就說要到下一家訪問。 奶奶說: "老師， 那我孫子下次回來，再請你來家裡吃田鼠 。"
老師很勉強的擠出一個笑容，點點頭。

走出光正家，老師深深的吐了一口氣，然後一面笑一面搖頭，然後問大家：“你們告訴我， 下一個奶奶會請我吃甚麼啊？“
“我知道，“進貴說，“是虎頭蜂的孩子！“
“甚麼？吃小蜜蜂喔？“老師緊皺著眉頭問。
“不是，把蜂窩打下來，裡面白白的孩子。“進貴說。
“蛹嗎？ 是還沒有孵出來的蜜蜂？“
大家猛點頭，老師倒吸一口氣。
“還有飛鼠肉，山豬肉，說不定還有熊喔！“大家都很認真的回答老師的問題。
老師聽著聽著，眼睛越張越大，然後瞪著我們說：“真的嗎？“

調皮的阿岱也瞪著老師，慢慢說：“當然是假的，我們自己都不夠吃，怎麼會給老師吃！“

老師又呼的吐了一口氣，說：“還好還好！“

哎，老師都不知這些東西真的很好吃，我們想到這些東西都會流口水的。而且那些動物都很難捉到，就算捉到了，也都拿去賣錢了。
老師的家庭訪問，好像是食物訪問，雖然她還是不太清楚我們在家裡都做什麼，但是她總算知道我們都喜歡吃些甚麼了。還有啊，現在全班都在等甚麼時候老師到光正家看那個大哥哥和吃田鼠呢！

Our Han Teacher 4-1 / 我的漢人老師 4-1

Home Visits 1

The teacher says that she will be doing some home visits to talk with our parents this week and asks us what will be the best time for her to come. We'd love our teacher to visit us but what she doesn't know is that most of our parents won't be home for her visits. That's why Juang says, " but my parents are not at home. They have to work. They come back only for the New Year." We all know that Juang is the little mother of her family; she has to take care of her toddler brother.

"Work?" the teacher asks, "go hunting? Does it take long to hunt?" 
The teacher really thinks hunting is a "work"?

"No, " Dan says, "only hunt when they come home."

"They work outside, in Taipei, very very far away!" Kai said.

"What about your mothers?" the teacher asks again, "Do they work, too?"

"Yes, " Mei says, "work, too. Very very far away."

"Then, who takes care of you?" The teacher looks at us a little in disbelief.

"Grandma and grandpa," Juang says, "can you visit them instead?"

The teacher nods; she seems to understand, "Yes, I'd like to talk with your grandmas and grandpas. I just want to know how you are getting on at home."

Wednesday morning, those who will be visited by the teacher come to the school to take her to their homes. Kai is the first one. We all follow him to his home. Kai lives with her grandma. His mom ran away when he was little and his father hasn't been home for a long time, not even for the new year or festivals. His grandma is very old and very small. She is no taller than Kai but very healthy because she speaks very loud, the loudest in the village. She grows corns and millets and keeps some chickens. 

When we are almost there, we see his grandma waiting for us at the doorway. She beckons us to come, and says, "I've prepared some bamboo tube rice for the teacher..." The teacher is surprised to have this traditional food. The moment she opens the bamboo tube, the mixed smell of fresh bamboo and steamed rice immediately floats to the air. The teacher tastes the rice with oh and ah. She says it's the best bamboo tube rice she has ever had, she even asks for the recipe, totally forgets about Kai.

Kai's grandma is so pleased that the teacher likes her rice. She tries to describe how to prepare the rice, but she only speaks a little Mandarin. So, here she is with a lot of gestures, some Japanese, and our tribal language. Her voice gets louder and louder until it's so loud that some of us have to cover the ears. The teacher stars at us and mouths "put down your hands" to us. Luckily, Kai's grandma doesn't see anything, she is just going on and on about her rice. She even asks the teacher to stay for lunch. The teacher says she needs to go on with her other visits and can't stay. Then, the grandma looks a little hesitant, she lowers her voice and says, "thank you for taking care of Kai. I don't know how to help him with his homework....you know...I can't read myself..well, I read a little Japanese, but ...please take care of him, you know his mother..." then, we see her wipe her tears. We notice Kai is looking down at the floor. It must be awful to see your grandma wiping tears in front of the teacher and classmates.

The teacher holds her hands and says, "Don't worry, grandma. Kai is a good kid. Everybody likes him. He doesn't have big problems in his homework. Don't worry." 

Kai's grandma says thank you thank you a million times. She asks the teacher to visit again and gives her a big bag of bamboo tube rice to take home. Kai takes the bag for the teacher, I see him breathe a big sigh of relief and gives the teacher a big smile.

家庭訪問

老師說要家庭訪問，讓我們回去問爸爸媽媽甚麼時間最適合老師到家理來，我們都很想老師到家裡來訪問，但是老師不知道，大部份的爸爸媽媽，都在外面工作，只有放長假的時候才回家。
美娟說：“爸爸媽媽都不在，去工作，要等過年的時候才回來。“ 我們都知道美娟是家裡的小媽媽，因為她還要照顧剛會走路的弟弟。
老師說：“工作？去打獵啊？打獵要這麼久嗎？“
老師真的以為打獵是工作嗎？進貴說：“不是，放假的時候才去打獵。“
俊凱說：是去外面工作，台北，很遠。
老師又問：“那媽媽呢？“
純妹說：“也去工作，很遠。
“那誰照顧你們？“ 老師看起來不太相信我們的樣子。
“爺爺奶奶啊。“美娟說，“那問爺爺奶奶可不可以？“
老師說點點頭，好像有點懂了：“可以阿，如果爺爺奶奶在也可以，老師只想知道你們平常在家的生活的情形。“

那天上午，要老師到家裡訪問的人到學校集合，帶老師到家裡去。俊凱先帶老師去他家，他和奶奶一起住，他媽媽在他很小的時候就離家出走了，爸爸也很久沒有回來了，連過年和村子的節慶都沒有回來。俊凱的奶奶很老了，也很瘦小，跟俊凱一樣高，可是很健康，因為他講話很大聲，是村子裡最大聲的。我們快到的時候，就看到奶奶在門口等了，他對我們招手，說，“我準備竹筒飯請老師吃喔。” 老師打開冒著竹子香氣的竹筒，又驚又喜，吃著被竹膜裹住的純白的米飯團，一直說這是她吃過最好吃的竹筒飯，都忘記要問俊凱的事，只問奶奶怎麼做竹筒飯。

奶奶國語不好，一下子部落的話跑出來，一下子又講日本話，還一邊比手畫腳， 她越講越大聲，聲音太大了，有人把耳朵摀起來，老師瞪我們，要我們把手放下來，還好奶奶什麼都沒看見，只顧著講着她的竹筒飯。奶奶太熱情了，要老師留下來吃中飯， 老師只好說還有幾家要訪問，一定要走了，奶奶才說：“謝謝老師照顧俊凱，俊凱的功課我都不會教他，我也不會看字，日本字還懂一點點，也不知道他功課會不會，請老師多關心俊凱，你知道他媽媽...“ 然後我們看到奶奶擦眼淚。 我們看到俊凱頭低低的一直看地下。看到自己的奶奶在老師和同學面前擦眼淚，一定不好受。

老師握著奶奶的手說：“俊凱很乖，大家都喜歡他，他功課也沒什麼大問題，奶奶不要太擔心。“ 

奶奶一直說謝謝，還要老師以後常常來吃竹筒飯。還讓老師把一大袋的竹筒飯帶回家。 俊凱幫老師拿袋子，我看到他放鬆地吐了一口大氣，還給老師一個大微笑。

Our Han Teacher 3 / 漢人老師 3

Little Hunters / 小小獵人

A lesson in our textbook teaches us about our National Day and the military parade. The soldiers in the parade are described as "valiant and heroic." We don't know what that means, but we've never seen so many soldiers together, and each of them has a gun in their hands! We get excited when seeing guns.

Jun-kai, as inquisitive as ever, asks, "what are they doing with the guns?"
Before the teacher says anything, Dan said, "they are going to shoot the pigeons. Look!" He points at the peace doves flying at the top of the picture.
"What?" the teacher looks surprised, you can see her lips going up a little like she was going to laugh.
"No, " Guang Chang said, " they are going to shoot the flying squirrels!"
"Haha..., " the teacher bursts out laughing again.
"No, not like that. You hunt them at night, with the light on your head!" says Ah-Dai.
"No no no, not so many people, the animals will know them coming and run away!" Jun says.

Everybody gets excited when talking about hunting. We start talking about our dads' huntings. The "valiant and heroic " soldiers can never compete with our dads. They can't be as brave as our dads. Our dads have hunted wild boars so big and flying squirrels so many that nobody can ever beat them.

The teacher doesn't stop our talking; she just lets us talk. She even asks how we hunt flying squirrels. Dan says, "You shoot light at them first, then they go like this..." he crosses his eyes, "you know, freeze like a rock, then our dads will shoot them down. "

We also tell our teachers how to set up traps to catch wild boars. We talk and talk. The teacher listens and listens, and gradually freezes like those flying squirrels until Dan asks if she likes to have a set of wild boar teeth as a gift. In amazement she says, "Awesome! you have known so much about hunting! You will be the best hunters when you grow up."

Although our teacher doesn't know much about anything, she thinks we are awesome. And that makes us feel "valiant and heroic", too, like those soldiers.


國語課本上，有國慶閱兵的照片，閱兵的軍人好神氣，每個人都拿著槍，課本上教我們說他們的樣子“雄赳赳氣昂昂。“  我們從來都沒看過那麼多人一起拿槍。
最愛問問題的俊凱問：“他們拿槍要做什麼？“
傻呼呼的鄧進貴說：“要去打鴿子！”
“甚麼？“ 老師眼睛亮了一下，嘴角揚起，好像又要暴衝大笑了。
“不是，“謝光正說，“是要去打飛鼠！“ 老師聽了，哈哈一聲，又暴衝了。
“不是，打飛鼠要晚上，頭上要帶燈！“阿岱說。
“不是，不可以這麼多人一起去打獵！動物會跑掉！“俊凱說。

大家講到打獵都很興奮，開始講起爸爸去打獵的事，這些“雄赳赳氣昂昂“國軍哪有爸爸英勇，爸爸打到的山豬那麼大，飛鼠那麼多。

老師沒有叫我們安靜，她讓我們講，她問我們怎麼打飛鼠，鄧進貴說：把光照著飛鼠，然後牠們就會這樣...” 他把眼睛翻成鬥雞眼，“像石頭一像不會動，爸爸就把牠射下來。“

我們還告訴她，爸爸怎麼設陷井打山豬，聽我們一直講，老師像飛鼠一樣，傻掉了，一直到鄧進貴問老師要不要看山豬牙，她才醒過來說：“你們好厲害阿！懂這麼多！將來一定是最棒的獵人！“

老師雖然甚麼也不懂，可是她覺得我們佷厲害，讓我們覺得自己也“雄赳赳氣昂昂“。

Our Han Teacher 2/ 我們的漢人老師 2

The Secret of Being Shoeless 不穿鞋好處多

Our Han teacher doesn't understand why we don't like to wear shoes. She reminds us to wear shoes every day. She even gives us extra credits if we wear shoes to school. But, most of us just don't like wearing shoes. Why?

"It's too much trouble," A-Dai tells the teacher, "like doing things with gloves. When we wear shoes, our toes can't feel the ground. It's hard to walk like that."

"And....," Shieh adds, " it's easier to do math problems without shoes." He hates math.

"Why is that? " the teacher gets more confused.

Holding up his hands, he explains, "like 6 + 8, you will run out of fingers, then, you can count your toes."

The teacher bursts out laughing, "really?"

Everybody nods. She doesn't know that when she called people to the front to do math problems on the blackboard, the ones who looked down to their feet were actually counting their toes.

The teacher laughs again, then she asks, "What if you run out of your toes, too?"

"Then, you can count other people's toes," Shieh knows this trick more than anybody else.

The teacher laughs again. Really, she doesn't know anything.

One day, she is surprised that everybody is wearing shoes. She is so happy that she decides to give everyone some extra credits.

"Finally, you all wear shoes, isn't that something?" she said. I guess this is not a question. But she is still curious enough to ask us, "why did everybody remember to wear shoes today?"

Shieh immediately holds up his hand, and says, "because it's very cold today."

The teacher looks surprised again, she pauses a second, then she bursts out the biggest laugh ever! So loud and sudden, like a wild boar bolting out of woods.

Now we know that every time our Han teacher understands something, she bursts out laughing like a wild boar. We like it, and we like our teacher. She seems to know us more and more every day.

老師不懂我們為甚麼不愛穿鞋子，她每天都提醒我們要穿鞋，還說有穿鞋子還可以加分，但是大家還是不想穿。 為什麼呢？
“穿鞋子很麻煩耶，“阿岱告訴老師，“就像帶手套做事一樣，穿鞋子的時候，腳趾感覺不到土地，很難走路。“
“而且不穿鞋子的時候，算數學很方便，“謝光正說，他最討厭算數學。
“為甚麼？“ 老師又不懂了。
光正舉起手來解釋給老師聽，“像 6+8 的時候，手指頭不夠算，還可以算腳趾頭。“
老師噗刺一聲笑出來，“真的嗎？“
大家點點頭，老師都不知道她叫大家到黑板上算數學題目的時候，低頭往下看的人都在數腳指頭。

“那腳趾頭也不夠數了怎麼辦？“ 老師問。
“可以數別人的腳指頭阿。“ 光正最有經驗了。
老師又笑了，她真是甚麼都不懂。

有一天，她驚訝的發現大家都穿鞋了，很高興說要給大家加分。不過她還是很好奇的問：“為甚麼今天大家都記得穿鞋了呢？“
光正馬上舉手說：“因為...今天天氣很冷。“
老師聽完愣了一下，又噗刺一聲笑出來，笑的好大聲，像山豬暴衝一樣，我們喜歡老師，因為她懂我們的時候，就會暴衝大笑，我們都覺得很好笑。