生命应当怎样去诠释它的意义，生活又应当去追寻怎样的价值？当面对同一片蓝天下的另一个世界，此刻，我们心有所感。
本文为成都新东方学校ZT1601班学员林煜杰的一篇社会实践作文，记录的是在西昌某希望小学献爱心的慈善活动经历。简陋的教学设备，破旧的草棚，还有那些质朴可爱的学生都给他留下难以磨灭的记忆，两种迥然不同的生活环境更让他对生活有了全新的认识和思考。生活是需要不断前行的，而怎样去生活，怎样去成长，在经历了这样一次旅行之后，成为了林煜杰同学思考的问题。所有的生命都应当拥有同样的权利，所有的人们都应当以同样的权利，去追寻属于自己的幸福和价值。这篇文章同时也激励着所有的新东方人，教育不止，奋斗不止。
（ZT1601是成都新东方学校并集TOEFL、SAT1和SAT2培训为一体的美国名校精英打造班）
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This is just the Memory and Experience of us, But it is the Life of them
Just as planned, we arrived at the Train Station of Xichang City on 3rd July, when a fine drizzle was falling. We brought alone with us some packs of stuff (candies, footballs, basketballs, pin-pang, books, dictionaries, food), which were purchased with money we raised from students, pedestrians, residents and even foreign visitors in Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan, which was 800 kilometers, or 10 hours train ride, away from Xichang.
By driving for another hour, we finally reached our destination, the Hope Primary School of Daqing Village. Went through an old school gate, we came to the newly painted Teaching Building. “Although some of the hardware has been replaced by new ones, but the conditions of accommodation are still worrying.” said the principle of the young principle.
It is hard for anyone in our team to imagine how poor the condition is before we went to the so-called restaurant. As we came to the back of the teaching building, a long stairway with naked cement surface heads to a ‘restaurant’, a big but empty room with no chairs, no tables. Students in different ages and grades sit or just squat there in groups, holding an elastic lunch box, staring at us, as if we are from another world. Seeing this scenary, our girls’ eyes brimmed over with sympathetic tears.
We are allowed to visit the bedrooms of the students. The rooms shocked us too when we came near. Though as residential student, we did expect high, their living conditions were still far worse than what we expected. Their bedrooms were just a dark tiny room with six shabby bunk beds. No lights, no air conditioner, even an electric fan. The only furniture is just a long rectangular table in the center with old toothbrushes and a flat tube of toothpaste on. The towels were hanged on the bedsides. ‘That’s what they got.’ A boy suspired.
Teachers have already showed us all the equipment in the school, a small basketball court, an old-fashioned radio as the media equipment of the school. What’s more? The classrooms were dense arranged(紧密地安排上了陈旧的座子和椅子) with some broken brown desks and chairs.
When asked the future purposes by us, while the girls in the classroom were too shy to answer the questions, braver boys told us they want to be sports players. Because they can always play basketballs after they become sports players. Then, we shared the sweets with them, we laughed and sang songs together. And they invited us to their homes at weekends.
The next day, we took a hour-long bus ride into the mountains to do a home visiting. The teachers told us the road will be too rough to let cars get in. So, the final trip, we walked for half an hour on the lanes. Due to the heavy rain yesterday, the lanes were actually a mud-way. We struggled in the trip and finally came to the top of the mountain. There, we met the local residents and kids. The conditions were even worse than what we saw in the school. No furniture, no lights, only beds inside, and pigpens outside of the house, actually a run-down thatched shelter is rather accurate than a house.
After stayed and studied with the kids in the school for days, we had to leave. When the principle heard that, he let other teachers kill a pig to cook some dishes to hold a farewell feast. ‘Let’s hold on the cups, fill them with white spirits. In Yi’s tradition, white spirits is the best staff to welcome visitors and say good bye to friends. In the ethnic regions, we do not have the good food to treat you well. Please make yourselves at home, enjoying the last meal! Thanks for everything you’ve done for us. The students and us will remember your kindness!’
After that meal, we left Xichang by train. I was slightly drunk after drinking with the teachers, that night, sitting on the train, watching the scenes passing by. I was thinking that my life is far better than theirs, we stay with them in poor conditions only for days, but they have grown up there. Yes, we did indeed donate them the charitable money and some sports equipment. But, we did not change their live conditions at all……
With the tears slipped down my face, I realized that what I have seen is just a short piece of life experience in my memory, but it is the real and unchangable life of them. （编辑：周彤）