红苇厂村——袁家庄村

今日徒步： 16.59 英里 / 26.70 公里

累计徒步： 91.83 英里 / 147.80 公里

今日捐款： 1,700.00元

累计捐款： 41,910.00元

“生活中充斥着许多“盗梦者”，他们会阻止你去实现你的梦想，告诉你应该去做所谓更明智的事情。我认为你的梦想是什么并不重要，重要的是和那些“盗梦者”战斗到底，坚持梦想。”——贝尔•格里尔斯（英国探险家、作家、英国童子军总会主席）

这又是一个晴空万里的好天气，阵阵微风从山间吹来。今天加入我们徒步队伍的是二十名来自曹妃甸职业技术学院的青年学生。他们都自愿放弃了周末休息的时间，来与一个“疯狂的英国人”在尘土飞扬的繁忙道路上徒步20公里。为了和我们见面，他们必须在早上5点起床，然后坐两个多小时的长途汽车来与我们汇和。

如往常一样，我和雪琳与学生们聊了起来，告诉他们在徒步的过程中要特别注意两点: 首先，一定要注意安全。徒步结束后，你们会回家与家人团聚。所以请大家注意安全，听从指挥，互相照应。其次，希望你们能乐在其中，享受“为梦想行走”徒步活动的特殊经历，并且不希望我们之间保持距离。每走5公里停下来休息片刻时，我希望同学们能主动过来交流，玩自拍也可以，或与我们做个自我介绍或谈谈各自的梦想。最后，我们用中文高喊了一声“加油”之后，便开始了今天的徒步活动。

当我们在今天徒步的第一站停下时，我和雪琳问是否有人可以唱首歌来鼓舞一下士气。大家纷纷向一个男孩看去。他低着头站在队伍的后面，大家叫了声“靳泽桐”，示意他过来。我们邀请靳同学到前面来，问他能不能唱首歌。他显得有些紧张，仍然低着头看着手机，用大拇指刷着歌单。然后，他播放了丹麦流行乐乐队“迈克尔学摇滚”(Michael learning to Rock)的音乐《拥吾进汝心》(Take me to your heart)，他抬起头，打开肩膀，从内心深处释放出了天使般的声音。

这个表演让此次的徒步活动显得更加深刻，因为它是如此的出乎意料。歌词是如此的应景，并且他带着浓烈的感情将这首歌完美地呈现了出来：

拥吾进汝心
与汝共交融
愿能执子之手而偕老
示吾汝之爱
引吾走爱途
愿能与汝共长天地久
或云事无常
吾愿惜当下
只因情爱稍纵即逝去

我记住了靳泽桐同学，我用英语称呼他为“靳唱”。他让我陷入沉思，因为如果有人让我从一群学生中挑一个会唱歌的人，我绝对不会选他。但在某种程度上这是可以理解的，因为如果我们不了解一个人，我们就不会知道他能做什么。他的朋友和同学都知道他唱歌很好，所以我们才能听到如此美妙的歌声。根据我的经验来说，伟大的天赋就如钻石和黄金一样深埋在内心深山，只有深入挖掘，你才能发现它们。

听了这首歌之后，我不禁沉思下来。我注意到地上有很多在爬动的毛毛虫。于是我试图避开不踩到它们，并希望其他人也能这么做。我对他们说：“毛毛虫生命中最美好的部分就是在不远的将来变成蝴蝶。不幸的是，大风把很多在树上觅食，准备蜕变的毛毛虫都吹到了地上。”

看到它们挣扎着努力寻找回到树上的情景，真是令人心碎。在中国，人们把树木距地面约一米的地方都漆成了白色。最让人心碎的部分是看到毛毛虫爬上同样漆成白色的路标杆，它们误以为这些路标杆就是树，可以让它们找到树叶进食，把自己包裹起来躲避天敌，完成蜕变——这肯定是自然界最伟大的魔术之一。

然而，它们发现在攀爬的终点出现的只有水泥，而且很容易就会被鸟儿吃掉。我很想告诉它们，不是所有底部漆成白色的东西都是树。在你开始攀爬之前，试着利用你的感官来多做一些测试吧！我向学生们解释了这个故事，并说道:“很遗憾，毛毛虫听不懂我的话，但也许你们能听懂。在你开始爬树之前，先试着确定它是棵你可以爬的树。不要因为其他人都在往上爬，你就以为会有叶子等着你。”我不确定他们是否理解我的意思。这个就是人生经验了。57年来我曾爬过无数次树，也掉下来许多次，我爬过的路杆的次数多得来连我自己都记不清。

时间过得真快，转眼到了下午同学们该回去的时间了，他们在如此艰难的条件下徒步走了20公里。在他们上车回家前，我喊了一声“靳再唱一首”，他走上前来，唱了一首中文老歌——《朋友》以作告别，其中有一句歌词是“朋友一生一起走，那些日子不再有”。我承认此时我眼含热泪。其他学生决定一起合唱，以此掩盖繁忙路边的交通噪音。我是多么希望想够加入他们，用中文一起合唱啊。

原文 / 麦克·贝茨勋爵
翻译 / 陈必萍
翻译校对 / 杨梦
微信编辑 / 杨帅
总校对 / 李熙琳、雪琳

贝茨勋爵日志英文原文如下：
Walked: 16.59 miles
Total: 91.83 miles
Today raised: ¥ 1,700.00
Total raised: ¥ 41,910.00
"Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it."
——(Bear Grylls British adventurer and writer and Chief Scout)
It was another beautiful clear day but with a stronger breeze coming down from the mountains. We were joined by a new group of twenty young students from Caofeidian Technical School. They had all volunteered to give up their weekend to walk 20km along dusty busy roads with a 'Crazy Englishman'. Just to get to meet us they had needed to get up at 5AM and travel for over two hours on the coach.
Xuelin and I gave our usual talk to the visitors: Our two concerns are 1 that you are safe and you return to your families at the end of the day so please take great care, listen to your guides and look after each other. Second, we want you to have fun--to enjoy the experience of 'Walking your Dream' we don't want you to keep your distance--when we stop to rest every 5km we want you to come up and talk, take pictures, tell us about yourselves and your dreams. With that there was a huge "Jia You"--(come on!) and we were off.
At our first stop Xuelin and asked whether anyone had any music they could share to keep us going. The group start looking round in the direction of a young man with his head down at the back of the group and saying 'Jing. Jing'. We invited Jing forward, he was very nervous and asked him if he could play some music. His head was still down staring into his smartphone and moving a menu with his thumb. Then he started the music 'Take me to your heart' by Danish pop group 'Michael Learns to Rock', lifted his head, put his shoulders back and released the voice of an angel from deep within.
The experience was all the more profound because it was so unexpected. The words were wonderful and he communicated them with such strength of feeling:
Take me to your heart, take me to your soul
Give me your hand before I'm old
Show me what love is, haven't got a clue
Show me that wonders can be true
They say nothing lasts forever
We're only here today
Love is now or never
I will never forget Jing Ze Tong or 'Jing Sing' as I called him in English. He got me thinking because if someone had asked me to pick someone out from the crowd of students who could sing such a song I probably would not have picked him. But in a way that is understandable because if we don't know people then we don't know what they are capable of doing. His friends and fellow students did and that is why we had such a treat. In my experience great talent is buried deep within like diamonds and gold you rarely find them on the surface they need to be dug out.
I was in philosophical mood as a result of the song and noticed there were so many caterpillars on the ground. I was trying to avoid them and encouraging others to do the same. I made the point that caterpillars had the best part of their lives ahead of them--becoming butterflies. Sadly the strong winds had blown many of them out of the trees where they were feeding and preparing for metamorphosis.
It was heart breaking to see them struggling to find their way back to the trees. The trees in China have the first metre painted white. The most heart breaking part was seeing caterpillars who were climbing painted roadside white mile/km markers thinking they were trees where they would find leaves to feed on and to wrap themselves in to transition to butterflies--surely one of nature's greatest magic tricks.
Instead they found at the end of their climbing only concrete and were made easy pickings for the birds. I wanted to tell them 'Look not everything which is painted white at the bottom has a tree at the top. Try and apply a few more tests from your senses before you start to climb!' I explained that story to the students and said, sadly the caterpillar can't understand me but perhaps you can. before you start climbing try and make sure it is a tree--and just because everyone else is climbing doesn't mean that there are leaves at the top. I am not sure they understood but that is the benefit of age because in my 57 years I have climbed many trees, fallen out of a few and climbed more mile markers than I care to remember.
All too soon it was time for the student to leave. They had completed 20km in difficult conditions. Before they got on the bus home I called for 'Jing Sing' and he came forward and sang a Chinese folk song--called 'A Friend' which included the line 'friends are always together even when they are apart'. I confess my eyes started filling up at this point. The other students decided to join in to drown out the noise of the traffic on the busy roadside. How I wanted to be able to join them in Chinese.
This way in which young people in China support each other where in other cultures perhaps the instinct is to make fun of each other is in my view their greatest qualities which I hope in their great progress and prosperity they will never lose.

来源：贝茨勋爵
来自：职教城宣传部
制作：李璟瑶
责编：李   倩