tenth year of teaching

Chapter 148 KENYA
After learning that he was leading Class A, Chu Xia met Da Bei after a year-long absence during the summer vacation.

Dabei is dark, thin and tall. They haven't seen each other for a long time, but they have been chatting on QQ, so they don't feel strange to each other.Because he has been abroad all year round, he still gave him a three-week holiday when he returned to China. Dabei asked Qiu Xia what his plans were. She thought about it and asked Dabei where the most fun place in Africa was and if she could take him for a ride. .

Dabei thought for a while and suggested going to the animal world.

"Animal world? Are you kidding me? Could it be that we go to the TV?" Chu Xia scorned.

Dabei smiled and said, "Do you think you are ignorant? Where was Animal World filmed? Do you know?"

"I don't know." Chu Xia shook her head.

"Kenya, in the Masai Mara savanna there, there are two great animal migrations in January and August every year. The animals in the grassland are full of animals. Now this season is the best."

The two agreed to apply for visas and set off immediately. Dabei traveled to Africa all year round and found a few public relations experts who were familiar with the procedures.

When I arrived at Nairobi International Airport, I started to get excited when I saw Kenya. It was the third time I had set foot on African soil, and it was still a novelty.The biggest difference from Uganda is that Nairobi is more prosperous and the economic level is obviously much higher.Nairobi is the capital of Kenya, the largest city in East Africa, and one of the largest cities in Africa.

An international city with an area of ​​648 square kilometers, a population of about 350 million, and an annual average temperature of around 20 degrees. Nairobi was founded in 1899. It was originally a supply station for the Uganda Railway, responsible for the supply between the southern Kenyan city of Mombasa and Uganda.It later developed into one of the most leading, fashionable and modern cities in Africa.

Nairobi is also the headquarters of the United Nations in Africa. The United Nations Office in Nairobi consists of the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Program and UN-Habitat, as well as the offices of other United Nations agencies in Kenya.It is the only United Nations office-level agency located in a third world country, parallel to the United Nations Office at Geneva, the United Nations Office at Vienna and other large resident agencies outside the New York headquarters.

Lake Naivasha, 90 kilometers northwest of Nairobi, is adjacent to the Great Rift Valley and is known as the two major landscape areas together with Nairobi National Park.Located in Nairobi National Park, the capital of Kenya, it is the only wildlife park in the world located in the national capital.It is located on the south side of the city, only 8 kilometers from the city center.It is a 120 square kilometers of beautiful woodland and grassland with a variety of wildlife resources.It is home to more than 100 species of wild mammals and more than 400 species of birds.

After settling in, Dabei hired a company to rent an off-road vehicle from the local office, and the black driver Mark took them to the wildlife nature reserve.Along the way, we passed through the mountaintop forest filled with morning mist and through the uninhabited grassland. We often met some black people wearing red shawls on the roadside.

Mark said that this is the local Maasai people and the Maasai Mara prairie, which actually refers to the Maasai people and the Mara River.At the foot of the mountain is the Great Rift Valley. The thick fog made it impossible to see clearly. We drove forward and passed through an area of ​​strange-shaped dead trees. We drove on a rugged road. As we approached the reserve, more and more animals began to appear. .

"There's a wild boar." Chu Xia shouted excitedly to Da Bei.

Dabei looked at the excited Chuxia with a smile.

The gate is very simple. You buy a ticket and go straight in. At the end of the vast grassland, withered yellow grassland up to waist level, there is only a tree standing between the sky and the earth. The blue sky and yellow grassland make people feel relaxed and happy.

I was very excited in early summer. As I drove in, migrating animals began to appear in groups in front of me.Her eyes widened. It turned out that wildebeest and zebra were migrating together, and the S-shaped procession spread across large tracts of grassland.

It is sunny, warm and humid all year round.The Masai Mara Wildlife Sanctuary is second only to Lake Victoria, the second largest freshwater lake in the world.The prairie in Sailin has a total area of ​​4000 square kilometers, of which 2500 square kilometers are in Tanzania, and another 1500 square kilometers are in Kenya.

The place is overgrown with weeds as far as the eye can see.Several tributaries of the Mara River pass through it.During the dry season, these rivers are trickles and crystal clear, leaving a patch of green wherever they pass.During the rainy season, they become violent, covered in mud, and wander across the fields.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the famous American writer Hemingway once visited here. The book "The Green Mountains of Africa" ​​vividly described the scenery, flora and fauna here.

It is now the season of great animal migration. There are more than hundreds of thousands of animals crossing the Mara River from Tanzania and returning to the savannah of Kenya.

Mark was driving on the grassland path. The black man's eyesight is very good. He can tell you that there is a pheasant two hills away.Giraffes are one of the most curious animals. If you drive by their feet, these beautiful animals will follow you closely with their big eyes blinking.She runs like a ballerina, very graceful and beautiful.

From June to October every year, tourists come one after another to admire the majestic scene of the Lion King leading his animal people to migrate on the African savannah.From Tanzania’s Salinge Land savanna to Kenya’s Masai Mara, groups of zebras run majesticly, thousands of wildebeests raise dust from the grasslands, as well as leaping antelopes and bulky rhinos. , leisurely elephant.

Thanks to the Kenyan government's vigorous protection of wild animals, the Masai Mara is connected with several protected areas to form the world's largest wildlife reserve, providing a suitable living environment for various animals.Diverse organisms, rich series and communities form a complete biological chain, allowing various animals to restrict and depend on each other, allowing them to find necessary food and habitat in different seasons.The reserve is guarded by armed police to ensure the safety of tourists.Drivers must be qualified and strictly abide by the regulations of the reserve.Here, animals survive and reproduce according to their original lifestyle, tourists' activities are effectively controlled, and animals and humans live in peace.

Every year from September to October, hundreds of thousands of wildebeest and herds of gazelles, zebras, elephants and rhinoceros "roam" freely through the green mountains in the Serengeti savanna in northern Tanzania. To the Masai Mara in southwest Kenya.Following these herbivores on this vast grassland are carnivores such as lions and cheetahs.

For thousands of years, these creatures have arrived as planned, forming a spectacular scene of "wild animal migration" that is rare on our planet today.

With the migration of animals, tourists from all over the world come to Africa to "visit" the Lion King and his territory, regardless of the fatigue of the journey and the cumbersome procedures for visas, passports and entry and exit procedures, to truly experience the connotation of a "migration".At this season of the year, tourist hotels here are crowded with tourists and business is booming.

　I drove to the airport in the evening. On the way out from T3 after seeing people off, it was almost ten o'clock. I have been a bit busy with work recently.New positions and new personnel require constant adaptation and adjustment, as well as the awkward mentality of being pushed forward.

　　Midlife crisis can be a workplace crisis or a family crisis. In my opinion, it can actually be a psychological crisis.No matter what kind of environment you are in and what kind of material conditions you have, the most important thing is whether you still have the determination to make progress and the perseverance to work hard for it.

　　Some people say they don’t like this kind of chicken soup, but if you don’t feed yourself some chicken soup every day, do you have to lie in bed and scroll through your phone all the time, constantly wasting your limited life between meaningless videos and texts?I want to find something that I can continue to do, such as telling you the stories around me, some are good, some are bad, some are warm, some are difficult, some are ugly and some are beautiful.Whether you like it or not, I am telling you and telling myself. In fact, I don’t want to waste time in constant irritability and regret.

　　I will always say to the people around me, "Don't sit in the 80th or [-]th grade and do things that you can do at the age of [-] or [-]." Yes, I am still young, although not as young as you.But I still have decades to do what I want.Work is to make a living and to reflect one's own value. Since you get money, you must have professional ethics. You can't do your best, but you must be worthy of your conscience.Do your best for your family, not material things, but companionship and care.

　　Also, love yourself.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)