Successfully "started from scratch"

Chen Gong and Zhang Hong were dancers in Ningxia before going abroad. More than a year ago, they found me and spent a whole afternoon introducing their dance dream to me. At that time, Chen Gong also He works as a laborer, and his wife stays at home to support her husband and raise children.

What are Chen Gong and Zhang Hong’s dreams? Chen Gong said that he wanted to open a dance school to teach his dance skills, and thus the "Yun Dance School" was born; Zhang Hong said that she wanted to hold a dance party in a year, and then they really did it last week A dance party called "Ethnic Style" was held. Surprisingly, more than 500 tickets for this party were sold out before the performance. It was hard to get a ticket, which is not easy in Toronto.

To this day, I still remember the scene when Chen Gong and Zhang Hong sat in front of me more than a year ago. They spent a lot of effort that day to convince me that they had lost everything in the five years since they immigrated to Canada. Just lost the stage. Chen Gong said: "If I don't build up the school, I will lose my stage." I know that the stage Chen Gong mentioned also includes the big stage of life.

A year ago, when Zhang Hong talked about the pure dance party she longed for, she said: "I have to transport the background of the stage and the costumes of the actors from China, and also equip them with computer lighting and dry ice. And the sound effects..." To be honest, when Zhang Hong said this, I sighed for her in my heart, because I firmly believed that a year later, she would not be so ambitious in her words.

A year later, Chen Gong and Zhang Hong came to me with their idea and invited me to write the host speech for the party and serve as the planner and stage director. This happened four months ago . At first I was still not too involved, but Zhang Hong went back to China once, and actually completed the design and production of the stage background there, and brought it to Toronto together with more than a hundred sets of costumes. Only then did I get serious. .

At the party last weekend, when dozens of actors appeared in front of me one by one, the music started playing again and again, the curtain rose and fell again and again, and the applause continued until the end, When the two young students walked out of the venue holding flowers, and on behalf of all the actors, they presented their gratitude to the two teachers Chen Gong and Zhang Hong. I stood in a dark corner away from the stage and silently Applaud them.

Later I told Chen Gong and Zhang Hong that this night was unforgettable for me, because in the past year or so, I have watched you start from scratch and find your stage step by step. This is The most joyful and exciting thing.

Many days later, I told many people about this incident. I said: The sign of success for new immigrants is not to buy a car or a house, or to enter the mainstream, but to find their dreams and be able to perform them on their own stage.