Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Boy Sixteen: Here Comes The Disciplinarian教官來了

Near Boy 15's school there is another remote elementary school where my parents taught before they retired 5 years ago. In it now there is a 50th ladder substitute service teacher who have the same family name and a 6-month old baby cousin, and studied in the same high school as me. For my parents' sake, I got an easy chance to talk to him.
Boy 16 is a fun, witty, and easy-going guy. His dorm in the campus is remodeled from the stockroom which is stuffily hot. What's worse, outside his room there is a cumbersome iron gate which he has to open up in order to go the toilet. Therefore, he thinks of a scheme. He prepares a bucket in his room as his urinal; then he spares the trouble of going outside voiding at night. Sounds original and, funny.

Boy 16 and his two elder brothers are all teachers. One of them serves the substitute service simultaneously in another school in Tainan county. The big coincidence is, that brother has a classmate who is my comrade in Team Two; what's more, his brother and my comrade slept on the same bed before and after in 成功嶺. Wow, what a small world. Actively making friends connects all us.

Boy 16 told me a touching story. On the family visit date when he was in 成功嶺, his parents went to visit him. Initially he didn't feel any agitation. But no sooner did he see his baby cousin who was then 4 month old, taken care of by him since birth, he burst out with tears. An infant earns a soldier's tears. What a lovely attachment. It reminds of much of my tears on that date, too.

Every morning, Boy 16 does the traffic security directing for students.
His home is in neighboring town. One day, his Dad's friend talked to his Dad and other friends that, there came a new disciplinarian recently in the neighbor country directing the traffic for pupils. Why none in their town, he murmured. That friend didn't know, his town is where the disciplinarian comes from.

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