Huang Shengen tied a small blackboard to his motorbike, together with all his teaching things and an alarm clock around his neck, and then started his ride.
53-year-old Huang has worked as a primary school teacher for 35 years in Yichun, Jiangxi Province. As the only teacher in Shaniping Primary School, which was closed because of COVID-19, Huang went to 7-year-old Zeng Yufen's home. In the school, the girl is the only student living with her grandmother in a mountain village.
All primary school students were having online classes at home. However, Huang found that the network signal was poor at Zeng's home when he took books to the girl at the end of February.
In order not to disappoint her, Huang thought of the idea of a mobile classroom. He showed up at Zeng's home the next day with a blackboard, a ruler and a box of chalks.
Every morning, Huang rode about 15 kilometers up the mountain road to Zeng's home. After class, he played games with his student, and he also taught the student to draw flowers and the beautiful mountain village.
"I'm a teacher from a village, and my job is to teach her so that she might leave the mountain and live a better life in the future," Huang said.
