In the summer of 1983 I asked to be transferred from a tiny, 72-student mountainside elementary school in the Hsinyi Rural Township of Nantou County to a gigantic school in Taipei County with more than 3000 students.
一九八三年夏天，我從南投縣信義鄉一所全校只有七十二位小朋友的山區迷你小學，請調到台北縣擁有三千餘名學生的都會大型學校教書。