The joyful times we spent together

Author: Zhang Xuyan, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Our Happy Times Together: We built fortresses with books on our desks and used trigonometry to calculate the corners where teachers might appear and where their gazes would land. We analyzed the height of each teacher and, in the end, compiled a long list that told us which books to use to build the fortresses to the optimal height. I swear this was the hardest math problem we've ever done, but we still managed to complete it miraculously. Watching Movies with Dad: From the beginning, I knew my dad just came to satisfy my wish because he thought I really wanted to see this movie. He didn’t understand that what I truly wanted was to relive the old dream of watching movies with him as a child. Dad has started to not understand me in some ways, just as I’ve started to not understand him. But sitting in the cinema, I clearly felt that I was happy. The Price of Growing Up: But when I saw my friends experiencing life in their own ways and walking their own paths, and when I, too, faced life and study in my unique way, I preferred to see this change as the growth of our generation. Since it’s growth, there must be a price to pay. Golden Sunshine Flowing Through: On a midday in late autumn, sunlight slanted through my hair, and a warm, golden glow instantly flowed over my entire body. I sat by the flowerbed, holding a bright yellow orange in my hand, my legs swaying gently, feeling a bit light as if floating. In the vast campus, perhaps only the snail crawling under the grass by my feet shared this leisurely heart to enjoy the sun like flowing water. The World of Middle School Students is a middle school journal with millions of readers. Since its founding in January 1985, it has walked 20 years of youth alongside its middle school friends. Our Happy Times Together collects the moments when boys and girls gather and grow together in this world. We gather these fragments of time and dedicate them to more readers to, The World of Middle School Students and its readers, editors, and authors as they have spent their happy times together. Time flies, and some of the authors who wrote these words have already gone to university or entered society. But when we reread these youth records, we still laugh, cry, and feel moved. As time passes, those happy times spent with family, friends, and youth have melted into the lives of those who have grown. We collect these fragments of time and dedicate them to more readers to, The World of Middle School Students and its readers, editors, and authors as they have spent their happy times together.