The 47-year-old sanitation worker`s mother and her husband left Hunan for Guangzhou in 2000 to do sanitation work, according to the Southern Metropolis Daily.
Every morning we go out at 04:30, and the cleaning begins at more than five o`clock.
The two people`s monthly wages add up to more than 6000 yuan, except housing, electricity and other basic living expenses, can save only about 4000.
In order to save money, mother has not bought new clothes for more than ten years.
Wear work clothes at work, wear pajamas after work, there is no need for anything else.
Mom said。
The perenniality of getting up early and getting dark made her feel rheumatic and hardly ever returned to her hometown since she worked.
The son of the family grew up in the left-behind, now can work to support himself, can also be reunited with a family.
"now it`s for the daughter."
When she came to Guangzhou from Hunan in 2000, her daughter was under ten years old.
Four years ago, her third-year daughter told her parents about her plans to go abroad and felt that her native language environment was good for her English major.
Mother agreed with almost no hesitation.
The road to application was not smooth, and IELTS alone took the exam seven times. In order to pass the exam as soon as possible, her daughter also signed up for a cram class, the most expensive of which is 200 yuan an hour.
The exam was always difficult for her daughter to sleep and eat, and his weight fell from more than 100 jin to 70 or 80 jin.
Finally, after graduating from college, IELTS finally got 6.5 points and won a scholarship to go abroad.
"what does it matter how many times you take the exam? there is no one else to take it." Mother spoke with pride.
By September this year, her daughter had been studying in Australia for three years.
Next spring will complete the second graduate degree, end studying abroad.
She will also be the most educated person in the family.
The bill of dreams
There is no free lunch in the world, and there are few free dreams, especially going abroad.
The most realistic difference between seven IELTS and seven CET 4 and 6 is the cost of the test.
But this is just the beginning.
Even a month of thrift, a year`s savings may only be a fraction of the high cost of studying abroad.
Although the daughter has a scholarship, free tuition, but the cost of living abroad is not a small expense.
In order to save money, her daughter has not been home for three years.
The bill is heavy, but the not-well-off family is willing to bear it.
"be sure to support the children in reading so that they won`t be as bitter as we are."
I`m retiring in three years, and she`ll be working by then. Take your time.
There is such a plot in Zhou Xingchi`s film "Yangtze River No. 7":
The poor brick-lifter wants to apply for more work with the foreman. The foreman said that your son would have to go to aristocrat school if you didn`t eat. My son just went to ordinary school. What`s the difference?
The brickmen say they just want their children to read better and don`t grow up like themselves. The foreman said that you also have to have the ability to do it, you are only a casual worker, why are you?
The brickman says I`m on top, the foreman says you can`t, and the bricklayer says it`s on top.
The foreman shouted, "I can`t stand it!"
The bricklifter smiled again: I can`t stand it.
Meat-eating is the essence, studying abroad is a loser?
Just like the foreman angrily asks the worker, a casual worker, does not eat also must send the child to the aristocrat school, is it worth?
After the news that the sanitation couple offered their daughter to study in Australia, they were confronted with the same question.
"I don`t have any chips, and I like to put all my money on it."
Some suggested that the girl change to other major, some suggested that the girl return to the examination of teachers, some said that if you can find a middle-class married.
In some people`s "valuation" system, the sanitation worker family origin should not have anything to do with going abroad.
It is clear that there is meat to eat at home, why do you have to study abroad beyond the "duty"?
Not to mention the financial constraints, IELTS also took seven tests, to learn English in Australia.
It was described as this girl: obviously only a little bet, but also like to put the blind up on the all in.
But is that really what they say?
No one`s efforts should be ridiculed.
Although most people are not bad enough to see the poor working hard, most people are saying that the girl`s methods are not good.
For example, professional choice is not good, can not stay in Australia.
For example, studying abroad has a low price-for-money ratio, goes to a certain Chinese Academy of Sciences to study and study, subsidizes many families without having to pay a few dollars, and looks for a job in the future no worse than a returnee.
But was she able to see that at that time?
If you were in her place, would you see it again?
You only saw her take the IELTS seven times. Do you know how many times she tried to do it?
No one`s efforts should be ridiculed and defined as unworthy.
The girl`s path may not be the best, but it is the best of her cognitive ideas.
Nothing is worth the right thing.
Someone might say, come on, my annual salary is one hundred and twenty-two ring three, IELTS six, seven, six, and I`m worried about being hit back by an Australian master?
Yes, she may not be able to fight back against you. But it is undeniable that the girl`s survival and competitiveness in this society have become stronger through family involvement, jumping out of the upper limit of the "social valuation" of sanitation workers` families.
What utilitarian, what immigration, what class leapfrogging, in front of the dream these are not worth mentioning.
So, what are you studying abroad for?
