The first day of April! It is the Fool's Day, or the Day of Fools. I don't know why people call this day "Yurenjie" -- the Fool's Day or Fools' Day! Is it appropriate for us to make fun of others in a "foolish" way? . . .
I remember what my elementary-school classmates had done long time ago. My classmates Xuemei Xie, Yizhen Xu, etc., falsely told our teacher Mr. Yunxing Liao (廖運星老師) that one of our classmates had been found suffering from cancer -- a dreaded disease that would kill the person, and Mr. Liao believed what they told. He became sad, and quiet, and very sorry about the bad news. Almost twenty or thirty minutes passed. Mr. Liao still didn't know that it was just a trick, nothing being true at all.
Oh, he was so happy and so unhappy to know the truth, when my classmates told him they had just been telling a lie, to make fun of him, on the first day of April. I felt embarrassed about that kind of thing happening to us, dishonest students cheating our teacher! Poor Mr. Liao! No wonder you became so upset, so disappointed about us at that moment. If I had been you, I would have become so furious that I would punish the liar(s) one way or another, because telling such a lie would cause too much harm to one's feelings!
Well, it was something foolish that happened a long, long time ago. I don't think that all of my classmates who were involved in that incident would still remember it well. Time and space have separated us in such a great extent that we would no longer remember all those embarrassing (or interesting?) things that had happened during our childhood -- during the days when we were still elementary-school students. Now we're all old, being in our sixties already. How fast time flies!
On the first day of April this year, 2015, I'd like to start to do "freewriting" more regularly. I've made up my mind to "freewrite" every day: I'll freewrite 15 minutes per day at least; if possible, I'll practice writing for 30 minutes or a longer time each day. Peter Elbow's book Writing Without Teachers has showed me the advantages I would have by keeping the habit of freewriting. I will try to carry out this plan, in order to improve my writing skills. May it be a successful experience!
I remember what my elementary-school classmates had done long time ago. My classmates Xuemei Xie, Yizhen Xu, etc., falsely told our teacher Mr. Yunxing Liao (廖運星老師) that one of our classmates had been found suffering from cancer -- a dreaded disease that would kill the person, and Mr. Liao believed what they told. He became sad, and quiet, and very sorry about the bad news. Almost twenty or thirty minutes passed. Mr. Liao still didn't know that it was just a trick, nothing being true at all.
Oh, he was so happy and so unhappy to know the truth, when my classmates told him they had just been telling a lie, to make fun of him, on the first day of April. I felt embarrassed about that kind of thing happening to us, dishonest students cheating our teacher! Poor Mr. Liao! No wonder you became so upset, so disappointed about us at that moment. If I had been you, I would have become so furious that I would punish the liar(s) one way or another, because telling such a lie would cause too much harm to one's feelings!
Well, it was something foolish that happened a long, long time ago. I don't think that all of my classmates who were involved in that incident would still remember it well. Time and space have separated us in such a great extent that we would no longer remember all those embarrassing (or interesting?) things that had happened during our childhood -- during the days when we were still elementary-school students. Now we're all old, being in our sixties already. How fast time flies!
On the first day of April this year, 2015, I'd like to start to do "freewriting" more regularly. I've made up my mind to "freewrite" every day: I'll freewrite 15 minutes per day at least; if possible, I'll practice writing for 30 minutes or a longer time each day. Peter Elbow's book Writing Without Teachers has showed me the advantages I would have by keeping the habit of freewriting. I will try to carry out this plan, in order to improve my writing skills. May it be a successful experience!
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1) April Fools' Day (愚人節 側寫) (2020)
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