Handwritten diary
In December 2007, I was implementing a program in a school I have worked before, Fang Shan Middle School, Dong Hai County, Jiangsu Province. It was founded in 1956 and was the first middle school of Dong Hai County. In 2000, it became the key middle school in Jiangsu Province and awarded one of the three “3-star” schools in county now. Over 5000 students are from surrounding towns, most students are in residence and implemented full-closed management .Everyone needs to wake up at 5 o’clock in the morning and go to sleep at 10pm, two days off in a month and it’s the only time that students are allowed to be out of school .
During implementation process, I let 200 first year high school students from 4 classes record their one day life in Fang Shan Middle School . I named it “My one day diary of Fang Shan Middle School”, I request them to record at 5:40am since they wake up and write down the time and the minute details of everything that happened at the day, order by the time separation, until they go to bed at 10pm at night.
This is not just a general dairy that record one thing in one day, but a day life scan recording. Students showed great enthusiasm, the diaries they handed over, some are full written in a few pages, some are even 2 meters long scroll, some are written in one notebook just for one day story. As you might see some are recorded like this, wake up at 5:45am, put on socks at 5:52, glance in the mirror, comb hair, run to classroom at 5:54 as usual, being lazy for a while around 6:44, reading politic books… Maybe they were just recording a regular day of a middle school student, but it definitely shows the side of students life and also the side of Chinese education.
Watching these handwriting diary’s, I wish there are more people who can read it in future, including parents and teachers of students who made the recording, also the officers of government education department, so they can see the real life of a regular Chinese middle school student under current education system.
366 Intervention
366 Intervention, was told by my friend Mr. .Wu Gao Zhong over the phone. He hoped I could come up with a solution to the curatorial group to see if its suitable the subject of the intervention. So I submitted my proposal. To have better reflection of characteristics of intervention, I had students send diary by text instead of hand writing to the outdoor big screen in commercial center of Shanghai Zhengda Art Museum. 100 middle school students phone diary program was carried out on 28 Mar by the favorable support of Zhengda Art Musem.
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