After class, she spent much of her time with her students, who were all aborigines, and even went to their farms to help with the chores.
那時，她在霧社農校教書，學生都是山胞，課餘她常和學生一塊兒爬山釣魚，或者翻山越嶺到學生家去做訪問，和山胞相處得非常融洽。山胞家中閹豬、閹羊也常找她去幫忙。霧社住的大都是泰雅族山胞，他們思想單純，民性淳樸好客。