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$5,000 grew into a forest: American donor returns to China to reunite with desert reclamation partner_我的网站

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    A group photo from the 1999 donation ceremony, where Ronald Sakolsky presents $5,000 for afforestation efforts. Photo: Courtesy of Luoyang No.2 Foreign Language School
At 2:48 am on early Sunday morning, after a flight of more than 10 hours, Ronald Sakolsky arrived at Beijing Capital International Airport. As he stepped into the arrivals hall, he greeted the waiting reporters with earnest Putonghua "Wo hui lai le," meaning "I'm back."
The thrill of his homecoming had washed over him most vividly during the final moments of his flight. "When I saw the lights in Beijing as we were landing is when I realized that I am back in my second home."
Sakolsky, an American retired teacher from Pennsylvania, is visiting China from Sunday to September 1 for a journey that will take him to Beijing, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Central China's Henan Province. It is a reunion nearly three decades in the making.
That reunion began with a single act of generosity. In 1999, when Sakolsky arrived in China as a participant in a bilateral teacher exchange program, he was moved by Yin Yuzhen and her husband's tireless efforts to curb desertification in the Mu Us Desert in Inner Mongolia. He raised $5,000 to fund their local tree-planting initiative. The young saplings bought with the donation have since matured into more than 50,000 full-grown trees, transforming the once desolate, sandy wasteland into a thriving green landscape.
After decades of lost contact, Yin, a national model worker renowned for her desert restoration achievements, launched an online search for her American benefactor in May, hoping to reconnect with the man who helped launch her lifelong desert reclamation mission.
What followed was a remarkable wave of online support: within less than 48 hours, a nationwide search had tracked Sakolsky down. That swift effort led to their long-awaited virtual reunion, a video call that brought them face to face for the first time in 27 years.
Asked what he is most looking forward to about this journey, Sakolsky told the Global Times that "I want to see Ms Yin, see the forests, see the students I have not seen for almost 30 years, my colleagues. I want to see the Chinese people."
The trip itself felt like a dream he never thought would come true, he added.
Now, the dream is about to come true. Later on Sunday, Sakolsky will fly to Ordos, Inner Mongolia, the site of the transformative environmental project that bound his fate with Yin's all those years ago.
During his China visit, Sakolsky will join Yin in a new tree-planting activity. He will also hold exchanges and discussions with teachers and students from the Luoyang No.2 Foreign Language School where he once taught, and participate in official China-US teacher exchange events, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
As he prepares to see the transformed landscape with his own eyes, Sakolsky shared with the Global Times about how much China itself has changed over the past two decades. From photographs, he said, he had already seen the barren desert he remembered turn into lush green forests; he had also heard that Luoyang has become far more vibrant and beautiful.
"Hopefully the message gets out to the world that Chinese and Americans can work together and make a peaceful world," he said.
。    张哲通最快乐的学生时期是大学。（新明日报图）（新加坡讯）来临的周五（30日）是一年一度的教师节，《新明日报》找来4名新加坡艺人分享他们与老师之间的回忆，以及有什么话想对老师们说。张哲通表示最敬爱的老师有好几位，“小学华文老师，只记得他叫陈老师，他很严厉但也因此巩固了我华文的根基，以及中学华文老师锺宁双（音译，Chong Ning Shuang），她年龄跟我们接近，亦师亦友，上课很愉快。最快乐的学生时期则是大学，也因住宿舍，感觉那段时间最自由，过得很开心。”趁着教师节，张哲通想对老师们说，“谢谢你们无私的奉献，你们说的每一句话对学生的影响是很大的，可能要比你们想象中的还要深远。”不过张哲通表示自己没想过当老师，因为知道自己没那个耐心。

二 | ●洪凌：老师让我懂得了鼓励洪凌最敬爱的老师是中学的班主任，“她待人和蔼可亲，教了我许多知识，也带给我许多美好的回忆。记得我小时候非常胆小，老师上课提问时，我只是低着头一边默默思考，一边担心老师叫到我。但老师从不批评我，从她的眼中我懂得了什么叫鼓励。

三 | ”在洪凌的心目中，一名好老师能对学生产生长久的正面影响。真正接触过教师行业的人才知道，关心孩子的事是做不完的，真的很伟大。她祝天下所有老师教师节快乐！”●黄振隆：曾梦想执教鞭黄振隆最喜欢小学的数学老师，“那时我数学非常差，他很用心，放学后会留下来帮我和几个同学补习，所以对他的印象非常深刻。到了中学就比较叛逆，记得我的英文老师对我很凶，有时我不专心，他就会拿粉笔丢我，不过他私底下对我很好。”他最快乐的学生时期是小学时期，“第一次踏进学校，第一次知道原来这世界上还有这么多不同的小孩跟我同年，并从中摸索人生是怎么开始的，所以小学让我经历了非常多，也学习了非常多。”黄振隆认为当老师真的要很有耐心，也是一份非常辛苦的工作，“小时候有很多梦想，当老师肯定是其中一个，当时觉得老师是很简单的工作，又有很长假期，但长大后发现当老师真的很辛苦。即使学校放假，他们依然有很多事情要做，要照顾那么多小孩，所以就不想当老师了。我也想借此跟所有的老师说‘希望你们可以照顾好自己，让我们的下一代可以出人头地。谢谢你们的贡献。’”●胡煜诗：老师影响成长　塑造今日的我胡煜诗觉得自己很幸运，因为在她的学习生涯中遇到了许多好老师，让她深刻体会到老师们的无私奉献，以及发自内心地希望学生们好。“我想提一位老师，他是我中一时的华文老师。他特别喜欢在课堂上讲故事，正是他让我对中华文化产生兴趣，从中国历史到各种故事，都是他在课堂上与我们分享的。毕业后，我有机会与他联络并一起吃顿饭。后来几次约他出来，他总是说可能要等，最后我才知道他生病了，现在已经不在了。

四 | ”对胡煜诗来说，老师是一份神圣的工作，是一种责任。他们的每一句话、每一个举动都能影响学生的成长。她到现在还记得每一位老师是如何通过他们的言行影响了自己，塑造了今天的自己。“我有想过成为语言或表演老师，曾做过代课老师和补习老师。如果有机会，也不排斥接一些与教育相关的工作，因为这与我现在的职业并不冲突。至于为什么最终选择当演员，除了热爱表演之外，也希望自己的作品可以让观众在娱乐中获得启发和思考。