We are the students at night school aged from 20 to 80. We come to school with a devout heart because we used to be illiterate. Whenever sun sets, no matter being office workers or housewives, we just have a simple supper and rush into the school. In the classroom, some students who are grandmas complain about what happen at daytime, while others try to cheer them up. Sometime, some classmates keep discussing about where they can hang out until the teacher step in.

Our young teacher holds the textbook and teaches us in both Mandarin and Taiwanese repeatedly. Once a while, he tells us some concepts of laws. He is even very understanding when some of us skip the class. For us, he is not long a teacher but a friend.

Tthe other day when school needed to assign someone to participate recite competition, the teacher asked all of us to try not being stage-shy and to experience how to talk on the stage. One classmate said that she was afraid her denture would drop, another said she had the hypertension, and the other even said no like a spoiled child! And I will never forget what the teacher’s facial expression was like. The joyous and warm atmosphere among us is so indescribable.

The advantage of night school is not only for us to obtain more knowledge but also to fulfill our life. We are going to graduate in a short time, and I hereby would like to ask those who didn’t have a chance to go to school can join us now. Come on! Let’s make our dram of studying come true!

Digested from published by Taipei Education Bureau(1998)