What's in My Schoolbag?
Is a book
I made
out of
I used between 2001 and 2013,
including:
6-years primary school
3-years middle school
3-years high school
Textbooks may be
the most irksome book
for Chinese students.
Being
the only books
that are allowed to
read in class,
they’re
boring
badly designed
full of texts to recite and problems to solve
but nothing fun to interest us
Then
we started to
put
anther book
inside
a larger textbook,
pretending
My mother
wrapped
all my textbooks
using
?
Lots of my classmates
did this too.
We all did this
because
while
our parents thought
But
the book
wasn’t protected,
and
we never thought about
cherishing them,
I believe.
We
used to buy
dozens of textbooks
and even more exercise books
each year.
Part of them
we never even used
while
some others were:
teared apart
covered by drawings
pages missing or broken…
I’m glad that
I
kept
these old textbooks,
and
it was
a fun process
to make this book,
looking back on
what I went through at the innocent age
how my generation was educated
I was impressed by:
those beautiful drawings
the fine details of the illustrations in science book
but also surprised by:
the amount of ridiculous contents in the textbook
Sometimes
I start to
recall
when looking at a page.
And
I love it
when people
?
while
?