Volunteer is a real class act
Student teachers help youth in rural areas to receive more educational opportunities, Tu Jiayi reports.
In addition to daily teaching, Wang also organizes a variety of extracurricular activities and courses to support the students' all-around development.
One of Wang's proudest projects was guiding her students to create collage poems — an innovative mix of art and literature where students blend Yunnan's cultural elements, like Dai textile patterns and the region's famous rubber forests, with poetic lines. For many students, it was a revelation.
"My grades in Chinese weren't very good, and I didn't have much interest," her student Yi Xiangkan says. "But through the collage poetry, I discovered the beauty of the subject, and I started seeing the world differently."
Another student, Chen Rui, says: "I used to think I wasn't smart enough to write poetry. Now I know beauty is everywhere, even in ordinary life."
The project has reached all the way to Beijing, where a literature society at Wang's college exhibited the students' works on the campus.
"Teacher, do you think those brothers and sisters from your college will like our poems?" Students ask Wang excitedly. She answers with a smile: "Someday, you'll be like your poems — crossing mountains and seas, standing on bigger stages."
