黄昏

这周的一天，我们见到了一场美丽的黄昏。那是大约九点的时候（加拿大的夏天，天黑得很晚），我们望向窗外，见到了漫天霞光。霞光栖息在屋房和树叶间，远处还有电线杆，仿佛我从前在哪里看过的一副画。而后小山拿来相机记录了这一刻。不知为什么，看到这场黄昏时我忽然感到很幸福，觉得能拥有现在的生活是很幸运的事情。

One day this week, we watched a beautiful dusk. That was about nine (Canadian summer ‘s days are long), we looked out of the window and met with pink sun glow. Sun glow rested on houses and among leaves, with telegraph poles in the distance; this scene reminded me of a picture once I had seen. Then Mountain got camera to record this. No idea why. Seeing this I suddenly felt very happy, that it was too fortunate I could have life like this.

最近叔叔和我们谈到教育，说其实有许多方法都能在短期内使孩子在表面上取得进步，从而赢得家长的信任，但叔叔都不会去使用，因为那对孩子长久的发展实际是有害的。比如在中国，家长们都十分注重成绩的提高，所以有时见到来到叔叔这里的学生的成绩短期内没有显著的提高就有些着急。但实际叔叔明白，要想真正使一个孩子有一个光明的未来，而且有一个稳定的成绩，就得先改变他们的内心品质。这才是真正重中之重的事情，也是最难的事情，而为了这个，叔叔宁可失去一些家长的信任，也要贯彻这个正常的教育过程。这个例子一直激励着我，因为我每每想到这些便会叩问自己：你做一件事究竟是为了表面上收获别人的喜欢，还是真正遵循心中良知去做的呢？

Recently uncle discussed education with us, saying that there are many ways which are able to make students improve a lot superficially in a short time, in order to gain parents’ confi dence, but uncle always is unwilling to use them, for they are harmful to the future of those children. In China, parents often quite focus on the grades of their children, so sometimes will be worried when they see there is no big improvement of grades in a short time. But in fact uncle knows that if there is not change in mentality first, there will be no big change of the future of the students, which is the most important and difficult. This example often inspires me later time. Every time I think about this will ask myself: you do one thing, is it for others’ likes, or really does it follow your good heart?