School & Life (Seems like they didn’t want to come up with a title)

Becoming sister schools

Yesterday, our school became sister schools with Hong Kong Island Minsheng College. Students from Hong Kong even came to visit us (though I didn’t see it myself 🙄). As everyone knows, our school was founded in 1941 by the patriotic general Zhang Xueliang to solve the schooling problems of children of Northeast Chinese soldiers. It’s an old school with a revolutionary history. Right across from our school is the Xi’an Incident Memorial Hall. Yesterday, Li Junfeng, Director of the Shaanxi provincial overseas Chinese affairs office, Yuan Dagang, Deputy Director of the Xi’an Municipal United Front Work Department, Chen Jingyi, Director of the Hong Kong SAR Government’s office in Shaanxi, and some provincial CPPCC members attended the event. Representatives from Hong Kong Island Minsheng College and some teachers and students from Xi’an No. 26 Middle School Education Group (my class got chosen for this; we skipped Chinese class to attend the lecture) participated in this exchange activity.

The lecture started with a musical performance. Our school sent a wind orchestra, while the Hong Kong school sent a teacher who’s won multiple international awards (I couldn’t find any photos of the Hong Kong teacher playing).

Next, a video message from Zhang Luheng, niece of the patriotic general Zhang Xueliang and a CPPCC member from the 8th to 12th terms, was played. Then Yang Chen, granddaughter of the patriotic general Yang Hucheng and a Shaanxi provincial CPPCC member, gave a special ideological education class on the Xi’an Incident titled “Promoting patriotic spirit and carrying forward national sentiment.”

Monthly exam

It looks like the monthly exam is coming up soon. Our homeroom teacher said it’ll be after National Day.

One autumn rain, one chill

Is it going to rain here soon? The weather’s getting colder, but not as quickly as last year. Last year around this time, I’d just come back from military training and hadn’t tanned at all. It rained the whole time we were training, so we didn’t really train properly—guys did some military boxing, and girls did finger exercises. I also registered my domain name the day before last year’s military training. The scent of osmanthus flowers here is pretty strong; I wonder where they planted those trees.

Applying for the HyperOS 4 beta test

My phone is getting old; it’s one of the last models still supported. Since my Redmi K80 Ultra uses the Dimensity 9400+ chip, I can’t experience the soft-light glass feature. I can only try out new stuff like the upgraded XiaoAI. I followed a tutorial yesterday and managed to enable the soft-light glass, but it doesn’t seem perfectly optimized—the taskbar still looks the same.

The phone works fine for now, but I’ll wait a few days to see if the background optimization improves. Sometimes it still lags for no reason.