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“。
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