19. Extracurricular Life
The author, Late Wind, says: These days, all schools in the city (except elementary schools) are on high alert! Students are not allowed to leave the school gate, and they have classes on weekends too! Our school's administrative teachers have to be on duty from 7 am to 11 pm, guarding both campuses tightly, not allowing a single student to go out! Originally, tomorrow was supposed to be a one-day holiday on Monday, but it's said that yesterday, another city had a case of COVID-19, so they notified us that tomorrow's holiday is cancelled and we have to attend classes instead! I'm going crazy, three days in a row with Monday classes! Students won't go mad, teachers will too! But what can you do? The leaders say, we must stand on the high ground of politics... Really, nothing is feared, just chaos, stable life is good!
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The life of medical students is certainly not just about studying.
After class and on weekends, you can see boys exercising in various basketball courts, football fields and other sports venues. Outside the boys' dormitory building, it is often heard that some dormitories are shouting loudly when playing poker.
Fewer girls like sports. Although some like playing cards, there are still fewer than boys. In this era, what is popular among female college students is knitting sweaters.
Zhou Yu is one of them. She's not a fan of going to the classroom for self-study. Almost every night, she stays in her dormitory. Although you can study in your dormitory, there isn't that kind of atmosphere where everyone else is studying and you have to keep up. To be able to study in your dormitory, you need to have good self-control, resisting the temptation of a comfortable bed, snacks, and music without anyone disturbing you. There are very few people who can really focus on studying in their dormitory. Zhou Yu always knits while reading in her dormitory, calling it "killing two birds with one stone". If there's an exam coming up soon, she'll knit while reciting her notes. With her intelligence, she always manages to scrape by every time. That's impressive!
Back to the topic, Zhou Yu not only had the characteristics of a "house girl" in later generations, but also had the characteristics of a handicraft expert. She started learning how to knit sweaters when she entered school, and after practicing with some gloves and scarves, she actually knitted a very modern sweater in just a few months according to the pattern on the knitting book. The milky white color, batwing sleeves, and high-waisted style were very novel, while the intricate hollow flower patterns were also delicate and beautiful. Even from Lin Fanghua's point of view, it was an eternal and versatile sweater that would never go out of style. People who saw it for the first time couldn't believe that this was actually made by a newcomer who had self-taught herself knitting according to a book. Therefore, Zhou Yu became the idol of the girls in each dormitory, and she was often visited by girls at night asking for advice on knitting sweaters.
At that time, almost half of the female college students would knit sweaters, Lin Fanghua also learned, only never finished a complete product. Unfortunately, this kind of leisure activity that was once very popular in college and particularly reflected the gentle and virtuous qualities of women gradually disappeared. Because social division of labor became more and more refined, the sweaters sold in shopping malls became more and more beautiful and fashionable, people naturally became lazier to spend their free time on it.
However, boys and girls also have common hobbies, that is reading. Girls of course especially like to read romance novels. Although classic world-renowned works are also being read, those books are tiring to read, so around the school, rental book stalls mostly have romance and martial arts novels.
Most people are strictly controlled by teachers and parents during middle school, so they rarely get to watch. When they go to college, it's like a wild horse that has broken free from its reins, often watching with abandon.
In Lin Fanghua's younger days, she would often take a walk after dinner and borrow a set of unread martial arts novels from the bookstall. She could finish half of it in one night, and then finish the other half during class the next day. At night, she would return the books and borrow a new set. At that time, she and Zhou Yu would often take turns borrowing books, exchanging them to read the previous and next volumes. Sometimes, people like Wang Juhua and Yang Qian, who also had a strong addiction to reading, couldn't resist their temptation and joined in on the reading. When they all thought it was good, they would inevitably discuss the plot at night in the dormitory, and the remaining diligent students were dragged down with them.
After rebirth, Fang Hua is no longer crazy about reading. After all, among popular writers such as Jin Yong, Gu Long, Liang Yusheng, Wen Rui'an Liu Canyang, Qiong Yao, San Mao, Yi Shu, Cen Ke Lun, and Liang Fengyi, she has almost read all their works, and often read some authors like Jin Yong, Gu Long, and Yi Shu more than two or three times. Moreover, after experiencing the baptism of the internet age, she is also used to reading free books online, so now she doesn't want to spend money on reading anymore.
Sometimes, Fang Hua sees Zhou Yu and Yang Qian getting excited and even crying when they see something they like, and she can't help but feel a little envious and regretful that she has already seen it all, wishing there was still something ordinary that she hadn't seen in this era.
In the past, Lin Fanghua often went to the video hall next to the school. Although the effect was general, it was very cheap to watch two Hong Kong movies for one yuan. This was a brilliant era of Hong Kong films, and although the Hong Kong films produced every year could not enter the mainland through regular channels, people could still enjoy the performances of stars such as Chow Yun-fat, Andy Lau, Jackie Chan, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, and Joey Wong in video halls. Hong Kong movies and pop songs accompanied this generation's growth. Years later, a mainland TV series "The Legend of Arching" was extremely popular, with many memories and tributes to the Hong Kong movies and Cantonese songs of the 70s.
Lin Fanghua still clearly remembers the shock of watching Lin Qingxia play "Dongfang Bubai" years ago, the passion of watching Chow Yun-fat's "God of Gamblers", the joy of watching Jet Li's "Fist of Legend", and the laughter of watching Stephen Chow's "All for the Winner".
But like everything else, all the classics have been seen before and there's no need to revisit them in a video hall, after all the projection effects were very poor back then.
Lin Fanghua still remembers that when she graduated, a boy said to her: "My biggest impression of you is that I often see you going in and out of the rental bookstall and video hall." At that time, Lin Fanghua was embarrassed. However, this is also a fact, her university life indeed passed like this.
After rebirth, Fang Hua's self-control ability was naturally not comparable to that of the empty and confused girl she used to be, so most of her past habits had been abandoned. There was only one habit left, which was eating midnight snacks.
The school cafeteria starts serving dinner at 5 pm, and people tend to get hungry before bedtime. Therefore, the cafeteria also humanely sells midnight snacks from 9 to 10 pm. Although it's just simple noodles, dumplings, and tangyuan, they are very popular among students, and there are still many people who go to support them at night.
Fanghua is not yet seventeen years old, still in the stage of growing up, and no matter how much she eats, she can't gain weight. So, around 9:30, she would often go back to her dormitory, call out Zhou Yu and sometimes Wang Ju, and they would go together to the cafeteria for an extra meal.
It's often said that southerners like to eat rice, while northerners prefer noodles, but strangely, the rice from Northeast China and Tianjin is actually better than the rice from the south. And when it comes to noodles, it's still the southerners who make them delicious. Fanghua once went north for further study and tried some famous Beijing dishes like zhajiangmian and dalu mian, as well as some Henan stir-fried pancakes and Xinjiang laghman, but didn't think much of them. Apart from being filling, they had no other advantages. Probably because she was used to the flavors of her hometown, it's hard for her to get accustomed to local tastes elsewhere. After all, S province is famous for its cuisine throughout the country, and even a simple bowl of noodles from the university cafeteria can be savory and delicious.
Especially on a cold night, eating a bowl of hot noodles and sweating all over is really refreshing for the whole body.
After finishing the midnight snack, I went back to the dormitory to wash up and lie on the bed to listen to English. At this time, other sisters who were studying also came back one after another. This is the most lively time in the dormitory all day long. When girls get together, they can't help but chatter about what happened today, and often after 11 o'clock lights out, everyone will still be lying on their beds, continuing to talk excitedly until they slowly get tired and fall asleep.
Almost every school dormitory will have such a pajama party.