Chapter 122 Autumn Sports Day

  Thanks for Kartoon's pink ticket, muah muah!

  Since the parent-teacher conference, Song Jie's dull days were finally gone, and every day there were classmates coming to ask her questions, and after class, she almost didn't even have time to go to the bathroom.

  Teacher Li was delighted to see everyone's learning enthusiasm at an all-time high. Song Jie's abilities were beyond doubt, and he couldn't let his good students exhaust themselves either.

  To help everyone improve their studies, Teacher Li had Song Jie help her classmates with questions during evening self-study sessions. Students who had questions would gather them together and ask at the same time. It wasn't that the teacher taught badly, but rather many students were afraid to ask the teacher questions due to a long-standing fear of teachers.

  Now that Song Jie is here, the teachers can all breathe a sigh of relief, and when the time comes, they can just ask her to help explain.

  Classmates who have questions all love to ask Song Jie, not because Song Jie always ranks first in exams, but because she is an authority. The four classmates she taught made tremendous progress. What kind of authority is that? Nowadays, classmates study while hiding and concealing, afraid that others will score better than themselves. How can they wholeheartedly explain to others?

  Song is not a petty-minded person, usually she doesn't even listen in class and reads extracurricular books. Now that the teacher has assigned tasks, she can put aside her extracurricular books for a while without any problem. She is also happy to help others, which is something she loves to do.

  So during the evening self-study, Song Jie's seat was very lively, and Zhang Yang was driven to one side. In order not to disturb the classroom order, the seat next to Song Jie became a mobile seat.

  Students who want to ask questions can sit next to Song Jie at that time and leave after asking, without delaying other students' classes.

  Later on, she found that this efficiency was not high either when there was no spare time in a class. One time she collected everyone's questions, sorted them out, and explained them uniformly on the blackboard at the right time. Students who didn't understand followed along to listen. This way, it wouldn't cause repeated problems.

  As expected, this approach greatly improved the efficiency of the lectures, and all the questions from classmates were answered, with grades steadily improving.

  The one who is most happy about the improvement in grades is Teacher Li. She usually walks with a swagger and when she sees her classmates, she smiles like a flower. Her classmates, who are normally afraid of her, sometimes even joke around with her.

  In early October, the school will hold an autumn sports meeting, which is the most anticipated festival for students. Because during those days of the autumn sports meeting, all students do not need to attend classes. Everyone has to cheer on the athletes in the outdoor playground, which is a rare leisure time.

  Teacher Li announced the news that a sports meeting is going to be held, and the class was in an uproar because they had to select athletes. Not every student can be selected, but rather those who have performed well in physical education classes will be chosen.

  Every time it came to this, Song Jie would collapse. She could still manage slow runs, but fast runs were going to be the death of her. Because she was two years younger than her classmates, every time they had physical education class and ran, she always ended up at the back of the pack.

  In order not to be eliminated, she always uses doping to cheat, but because of her guilty conscience, she usually runs at a mid-level. This time's competition is definitely not for her to participate in, it was originally just for sportsmanship, cheating would be too ugly.

  Teacher Li asked the class monitor to count the number of people who signed up and then submit the list to her.

  Many boys who love sports have signed up, and the girls who run relatively fast have also signed up. Song Jie pretended to be studying hard, lying on the table, afraid that there would not be enough people at the time and the students who study well would be used as substitutes. This kind of thing has happened before.

  Fortunately, the number of people was finally made up, and the class leader was a boy with a small flat head. He used to be a troublemaker, but since Teacher Li let him become the class leader, the discipline in the class has been greatly improved, much better than before.

  Even Song Jie secretly admired Teacher Li's discerning eye for talent in her heart, and had to say that it was really too wise.

  According to their usual performance. The class leader assigned a quota for various events to those who signed up, and the 400-meter run and 5,000-meter run are not something you can participate in just because you run fast.

  Depending on different explosive power and endurance, you can run in different events, which also requires vision.

  The length of girls' and boys' runs is not the same, and it needs to be adjusted later. After assigning them, the class leader reported the list to Teacher Li.

  Song Jie saw the list being sent away and secretly wiped a cold sweat, she wasn't all-powerful either, sports were her weakness after all. Letting her run with a group of classmates who were several years older than her was very stressful, okay?

  However, in the end she still received a difficult task. During the sports meeting, she had to go up to the rostrum to help read out the speech, that kind of clichéd phrase like "Autumn is high and refreshing, golden winds are blowing, our school is holding..."

  When it's each class's turn to go on stage, she has to help read out the lines specially written for that class, such as encouraging words written specifically for a certain classmate.

  Although it's a bit of trouble, being able to help out can make up for her small guilt about not wanting to participate in the competition. She had no idea that Teacher Li hadn't even thought of letting her participate in the competition, and she was younger than the other students - Teacher Li wasn't unaware of this, it could only be said that Song Jie was worrying excessively.

  The preparations were made very thoroughly, and when the sports meeting was held, all the classmates moved their own stools to sit on the playground.

  The entire playground has a 400-meter long track, and at this time, the playground has been painted with white paint to form uniform lanes. In the center of the playground, many other events are set up, such as high jump, long jump, shot put, etc.

  The playground is surrounded by many ginkgo trees, but the ginkgo trees are not very old and only have a few sparse leaves. Near the classroom, there is a patch of cypress, next to which are some sports equipment, including parallel bars, single bars, and rings.

  At this time, no one dared to run around, the head teachers of each class came over to maintain order, and the classes were arranged in a ring shape according to the order from low to high, surrounding the playground and forming a big circle, with the track surrounded inside.

  The loudspeaker on the stage kept playing the sports march, and when all the students were seated, the principal began a passionate speech on the stage, which made some of the students feel drowsy before it finally stopped.

  "Finally, I declare the start of this autumn sports meeting!" As soon as the words fell, the sports meeting finally began.

  It started with students in lower grades, that is, students one grade lower than Song Jie, while second-year junior high school students were doing preparatory work.

  The autumn weather has become cool, cold in the morning and scorching hot at noon. Classmates are all wearing long-sleeved school uniforms, while athletes wear short-sleeved shirts and shorts, shivering with cold before the competition even starts.

  The representative of the first grade is making a speech on the rostrum, and the loudspeaker has been sounding non-stop since the beginning.

  The first event is the 400-meter dash, which isn't an easy exercise. You have to run around the playground for a whole lap. Some athletes who are catching colds are doing warm-up exercises by stretching their legs and toes. If you don't do your warm-ups well, you might pull a muscle and that would be disastrous.

  The physical education teacher had already set up a target at the starting point and, when the time was almost up, fired a shot at the target with a gun.

  The athletes shot out like arrows, the cheers and applause on the playground rose one after another, the voices were louder than the waves, and the athletes ran even more vigorously.

  These athletes slowly pulled away, and for first-year students, 400 meters was already a considerable distance.

  Faintly, I still heard the person on stage saying "Certain certain classmate, your heroic posture is so refreshing, moving like a rabbit...". This was the task that Song Jie was about to undertake, giving a speech of encouragement to the second-year junior high school athletes.

  The athletes on the track were desperately chasing each other, with cheers and applause shaking the sky. Many students had left their seats. Some friends who were closer to the athletes would also cheer them on from the sidelines.

  Finally, the 400-meter run was completed, and the physical education teacher recorded the time on the side. Many athletes were exhausted and sweating profusely. Classmates who had been waiting on the sidelines quickly put clothes on their classmates to prevent them from catching a cold.

  The morning session is for Grade 1 matches, and the afternoon session is for Grade 2 matches.

  "Song Jie, let's go to the store and buy some food?" Zou Meng looked a bit bored and couldn't keep her mouth shut, wanting to go buy snacks.

  Running itself isn't very interesting, and it's mainly because they're not competing with their own classmates, so I couldn't muster up any interest.

  Mr. Li had long since disappeared, and the teachers of each class were also nowhere to be found. This was a holiday for the students, and all the teachers had returned to their offices, except for those with athletes present who remained on site to cheer them on.

  Song Jie was also somewhat moved, anyway the teacher wasn't there, so they went to the store hand in hand. There was only one store in the school, usually students bought things from here, it's said that this store is run by a relative of the principal, whether it's true or not remains to be verified.

  Many classmates have already escaped to the store to buy things, Song Jie and two good friends just managed to squeeze in, there are really too many people. The store was not big to begin with, and suddenly a dozen or so people came in, but there was no place to stand.

  It seems that those who want to slack off are not just a few people.

  During the sports meeting, apart from not having to attend classes, another great pleasure is eating snacks. At that time, you can watch the competition while eating snacks and then discuss with friends, it's really a delightful thing.

  The morning match can be taken lightly, but the afternoon match must be watched with great attention, because our own class is also participating.

  Several boys in the class who were familiar with Song Jie all signed up, Zhang Yang, Meng Kang and Li Lin all participated. These guys are quite tall and have long legs, every physical education class they were always among the top runners, who else could keep up with them?

  In the afternoon, Teacher Li sat in her own classroom for the entire time. She didn't move from her spot, and none of the other students dared to either, so they all watched with rapt attention, their cheers louder than in the morning.