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Lessons With Love

hen Zhang Chengxiang, a teacher from a technical college in east China, recently went to Xiliushui Hope Primary School in Guizhou Province in southwest China to be a volunteer teacher, it was her second mission in that isolated area. When she first got there, she was daunted by the high mountains that encircled the village and cut it off from the outside world. However, she could feel the children’s eagerness to know about the outside world and their hunger for knowledge. She told she thought she had made the right decision to come to this remote village over 2,000 km away from her home in the port

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