This article "Wu Da graduates working in foreign countries, building roads in Angola accompanied by snakes" was reprinted by (liuxue86.com) on June 5th.
The picture shows Chen Hualiang taking measurements in the field.
Looking at the leopard and accompanying cobra.
I'm building an expressway in Angola.
A graduate of Wuhan University works in a foreign country.
As soon as he graduated, he applied to participate in aid projects in Africa. With my own labor, I bought a house in Wuhan after working for two years. At present, he has been fighting in Africa for four years.
His name is Chen Hualiang, and he is a graduate of civil engineering in 28 from Wu Da University, and he is one of many China workers in Africa. Expressway, which he and his teammates helped build, is the No.1 expressway in Angola, named SOYO (Angolan place name? Soyo? ) Expressway, with a total length of 1 kilometers. Yesterday, he told reporters about his aid career in Africa, and said that he would take his wife with him in August this year? Battle? Africa
I once looked at the leopard
Angola is a small country in Africa, close to the equator. However, due to its proximity to the Atlantic Ocean and breezy sea breeze, the annual temperature is around 22 degrees. For me from a city in central China, the climate is very pleasant.
We migrant workers, who study civil engineering and wear glasses, carry surveying and mapping instruments all day and explore and measure in waist-deep weeds. Sometimes the survey site is too far away from the construction site, so we simply take dry food and carry tents, choose a good place to station, fetch water and fish on the spot, roast fish and crabs on the bonfire, and drink beer with the nonsense memories of college days.
the project is located on the plateau, with exceptionally low sky and close proximity to the stars. On a windy night, we usually go camping and talk about our ideals. We are too lazy to shave, and one of the daily games is to grow faster than whose beard. My highest record is more than a month. The sea breeze blows, and my beard fluctuates slightly like wheat waves. I am very intoxicated. After returning to the construction site, I showed my beard to my parents in the video. My father said it was like bin Laden, but my mother burst into tears.
in the days of field survey, I have seen many famous and unknown animals. Angora wildcats, black-faced antelopes and angora rabbits? The most impressive scene happened on a hot and humid afternoon without wind. In order to catch up with the progress of the project, we are all immersed in hard work, and I vaguely feel a little strange around us. Suddenly looked up, a leopard stared at us less than 1 meters away, and it and I stared at each other. I broke out in a cold sweat, and it suddenly occurred to me that the book said that you must never run away at this time. I stared at the leopard, and my mind was filled with the sound of my heart pounding. After a few minutes, the leopard walked away, as if nothing had ever happened.
There are many kinds of animals and plants in Angola, and all kinds of animals inhabit here on the dense African grassland. When measuring and exploring strange things, I have met pangolin twice and boa constrictor n times, while cobra is usually nothing to mention. At first, I always wanted to pick up the guy and kill them, but later I was quite calm and sometimes I smiled at them mischievously.
hospitable Africans
Our construction site is in Mukkula Village, zaire province, and we directly invite local villagers to be workers.
I have three villagers who are workers: Adao, Baka and Sinba, each with his own characteristics. Adao has a flexible brain, and I admire him most. I also deliberately trained him in Chinese, hoping to follow me in the future. He learns quickly, too, and communicating with smart people is relaxing and enjoyable. Baka is a tough guy, Schwarzenegger-style figure, suitable for going it alone.
if Adao is clever and tough in unpacking boxes with tools, Baka can solve the problem directly with brute force, sometimes quite quickly and directly. When I try to teach Baka simple Chinese, he always says:? I'm mentally ill today. Why don't you bring a notebook to remember it tomorrow? . Turns out this guy never brought it once.
Sinba is a tall Portuguese teacher in the local village, who works part-time on the construction site during the summer vacation. He not only knows English, but also speaks good Portuguese, which has taught me a lot of Portuguese words. Sinba has no interest in Chinese, and he firmly believes that Portuguese will become the world language one day.
They are very enthusiastic and often invite me to eat local delicacies. Once, Adao gave me a pack of black coffee powder, and he said we were amigo (Portuguese,? Friends? I accepted it carelessly unless I was asked to pay. The bag of coffee powder looked like mud, so I got up the courage to make a cup. The smell of coffee better than nothing spread on the taste buds, and my long-lost happiness surged up. Baka is a formidable figure, but she is a good cook. According to my stuttering Portuguese, combined with Angola's dietary tradition, he made me a spicy ice crab once, with choking pepper juice, fat crab roe and crispy thin ice, which made my appetite big.
Strange market without scales
In Angola's market, the line between simplicity and cunning is very subtle. They sell things without a scale, and they are all a lot of estimated prices. One lobster weighing about one catty is 1 kwanza (kwanza, local currency unit, 1 kwanza is equivalent to one yuan), and a large barrel of fresh marine fish is only 5 kwanza? Once I went to the seaside to buy seafood, I found an honest-looking woman. Her price was very low, so I paid for her change. Who knows, she put the money directly into the bra, and there was no meaning of change at all. I chased her for change, and she said solemnly: Without change, those fish and shrimps are worth so much. Besides, I have my money? She proudly pointed to the bra and said slowly, You foreigners are so rich, forget this little money? . I had to give her a thumbs up.
The company once hired an English-Portuguese translator for the project department. I have a good relationship with him and concentrate on learning Portuguese from him. He is Congolese and speaks English with a strong accent, which reminds me of an old-school English gentleman. This man is so particular about mango that he has to wash it before eating it. I gave him mangoes to eat, but he always refused politely. It turns out that he was educated in England for several years. In front of him, I realized the importance of education more and more. Education can change people. When I was studying at school, my most puzzling question was, Is reading useful or not? ? In front of this Congolese, in front of Angolans who can't use calculators, this question has found the answer.
grow your own vegetables near the equator
Angola is short of daily necessities, and all our daily necessities are airlifted from China. Millet porridge with biscuits is breakfast, and potato stewed noodles is dinner. This kind of life is crazy. When I first came to Angola, in my huge suitcase, in addition to the necessities of life, there were 2 packets of precious Sichuan-style hot pot bottom materials. In the video, I can't stand my classmates tempting me with delicious food.
I have many people in the same boat. A group of post-8s engineering male, who spent their first Spring Festival in Angola, quickly and unanimously decided to grow their own vegetables after eating only jiaozi with thick skin and little stuffing.
We got several bags of seeds from our workmates, and then we chose a barren land with loose soil to reclaim, divert water and sow. Engineering male's surveying and mapping ability and hands-on ability are really not bragging. The vegetable beds we dug up are as uniform as the soldiers who were inspected. After the seeds germinated, we were all very excited, carefully cared for and felt like this seed, taking root in a foreign country; Like the Chinese cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, bitter gourd and green beans, we are growing wantonly against the Atlantic sea breeze.
In those days when I was growing vegetables, I touched my sunburned face and had to sigh. Fortunately, after reading Life Gossip, I learned that sunbathing can supplement a lot of vitamins A, D and calcium, and my heart was slightly calmed down. After eating the first dish of stir-fried Chinese cabbage, the sigh instantly turned into an ineffable sense of accomplishment.
The open-air stadium has become a couple's booth
During the 21 World Cup, with the cooperation of Adao and Baka, I built an open-air stadium. In addition to their efforts, Adao and Baka have integrated beautiful and mysterious local elements into the appearance of the shed. In this shed, all the people on our construction site spent a carnival night together. Later, the shed was developed into a coffee shop, a chess room and a local couple's booth?
Lao lang once sang like this: I'll walk as far as I can, and I won't be afraid of difficulties. . This song, accompanied by me on campus, was eager to move into the distance, and I did not hesitate to walk into Angola after graduation. I am infinitely far away from my hometown, so why not go further? Because I am still young, I am eager to get on the road.