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。“
No comments:
Post a Comment