Fifty Years After They’d All Graduated, the Alumni of the Guan-Yu National Institution Gathered Together Again

Reconnecting with one another after so many years, translated…

The Kinmen’s ninth graduating class of Guan-Yu National School, left their alma mater for half a century and were scattered across American, China, and Taiwan, recently, they’d found one another using LINE, yesterday, they’d all returned back to their alma mater to have a class reunion, invited the two school teachers that they had, Mr. Yang and Mr. Huang too, the teachers and students walked around the school together once more, to reminisce, the atmosphere was, heartwarming, to say the least.

“You were the naughtiest, always pulled those pranks on me…”, the group of men and women averaged at the age of sixty-four returned back to their school yesterday, although they had graduated for over half a century already, but, they were still, very heartful, and, other than two members of the class who had already passed away, there were, twenty members of the class who’d returned to school, and revisited where they had their school pictures taken from before, and took another one.

photo from online…

They’d walked into their classrooms, and recalled clearly what happened when they were attending school there, but now, the classmates are all elderly persons. The man who’d called on this reunion, Jing-Shih Chang said, everybody meeting back up together after so long, a lot of the female classmates couldn’t help but cry, they couldn’t believe, that they’d gotten the chance to, meet up again, to reminisce the past together, they’d started laughing immediately, and started talking happily about the shared pasts.

Jing-Shih Chang recalled, back then, there was limited resources, the school borrowed the halls of a local family’s shrine as class, and, the bells for the class were those used up cannons from the war with the Communists on August 23^rd, and the students would take turns, ringing it, and the students responsible for the bells got to come late to class and leave early too, and, so, the entire class would fight for the positions of the bell ringer. The instructor, Yong-Fu Yang learned that there was a reunion, and early yesterday morn, had arrived in his old classroom, to clean up the classroom, to wipe down the desks and the chairs too, it’d moved the class very much.

photo from the papers…

So, this, is how connected they were, even after HALF a century later, they’d still shared those younger days, and, what made this reunion meaningful, was almost everybody who’d gone to the school came back…