In South Africa, live your life in parallel

Text/Lu Xiaoni

After reading Da Bing’s book, I became full of curiosity about parallel space. I thought his life was cool, but I longed for it. Don't know how to do it.

The killer was not my boyfriend at that time. He took advantage of the fact that he had been "non-drifting" longer than me and became my master. One day when we talked about our ideals, I said: "I hope I can live in a parallel space." "

He said: "Haha, if you can do it, you will be my master, and I will support you."

After thinking about it for a long time, he finally thought that it was. Don’t you just have a chance if you try something you haven’t done before?

Finally a few days ago, my best friend said: "Wow, you have more and more labels now."

On January 5, 2018, my dad and I traveled to China one day away. More than 10,000 kilometers away, we started hard work on another part of the world. We opened a clothing processing factory.

The workers in the factory always call me Nina. I always feel like I have a new "child" in the factory overnight, and they come to me for any trivial matter.

They have too many bad habits that I cannot accept but have to tolerate.

Those who have outstanding abilities but are so playful that they are so angry that they want to beat others; those who have no concept of financial management, such as the "Zhou Guang Clan", I always struggle with whether to lend them money or not; There are those who like to talk at work, and there are those who are night owls who like to work overtime...

What’s even more amazing is that I found that the ethnic conflicts between China and local workers in Swasland and Lesotho, two South African countries, are no different. The China-Japan issue is simple.

Whenever they disagree, they will say: "Look, this is done by people from XX country." This kind of ethnic sentiment once reached the point of dividing dormitories according to nationality.

On February 20, 2018, the first day my mother came to South Africa, I didn’t have time to pick her up at the airport because it was the first day of classes at Newcastle Chinese School and I had to teach these things abroad. Living children learn pinyin.

"Hello everyone, I am Teacher Zhao..." I stood on the podium and looked at the dozen or so children of different sizes below, trying to be professional.

"No, you are Sister Nini." Because the city is small, some children have met her before, and they "revealed" that I was not Teacher Zhao with a "you lied" attitude.

"Okay, some classmates have met before and they call me Sister Nini. Then we will learn Pinyin together in the next semester... So what are you going to call me?" in the introduction. I asked after the course.

"Sister Nini!" They actually said in unison. Some children were too young to hear clearly and thought it was sister Mimi, and they kept calling her for a whole semester.

"Okay, okay, sister, just be a sister, you can learn how to do it!" It is said that girls over 25 years old are not willing to be aunts. Look, am I taking advantage of Dafa?

Learning Pinyin is very boring, and I am always worried that they will lose interest or be unable to remember it. As a result, they are like a group of little angels, and the classroom atmosphere is getting better and better.

The factory was busy and chaotic, but changing my identity for an hour during class was like a short trip. I often felt more energetic when I came back from school and transformed into Nina.

The thing you really love should be something you won’t let go no matter how busy you are, and something you can really calm down once you start.

One day I was chatting with a colleague. Although I had never met him, people who studied aromatherapy habitually encouraged each other for some reason.

My sister said: "Go ahead, we do aromatherapy and it's impossible to really put down the essential oils anyway."

To this day, there are still customers who are true fans come to make appointments for care. Every time I listen to the guqin and light incense, I don’t feel like I’m working.

They came with trust, and I did not hesitate to take out the various oils I had collected and prescribe the right medicine.

Every time I receive a complicated case, I feel excited. I am excited about the brain-burning process of thinking of the formula, and I am happy to witness the effect of the soaked oil I made by myself.

I will take the international aromatherapist exam in 2019. Although I don’t know how to find time to review, it is always right to keep practicing.

My best friend said that I have put more and more labels on myself, so does this mean I have found a parallel space?