Meng Yan's Transformation

With the end of the women's basketball game, the three-day Xinxing Commune National Games is coming to an end.

At the closing ceremony, Vice Principal Zhang of Xinxing Primary School took the podium and gave a closing speech:

Dear referees, athletes, teachers and students: Good afternoon everyone!

The Spring Games of Xinxing Commune was carefully organized by the organizing committee, and all the staff and referees worked hard and all the athletes fought hard. We would like to express our deep gratitude to all the teachers and students who made unremitting efforts in this Games! We would like to express our warm congratulations to the students who won the rankings and the award-winning classes!

At the sports meeting, all teachers and students were united and friendly, and participated in the competition in a civilized manner, showing the noble moral atmosphere and good mental outlook of teachers and students from all schools and people from all walks of life. This sports meeting was wonderful. The perseverance of the middle and short-distance runners, the agile postures of the high jump and long jump, the excitement of the relay race, and the collision of speed and passion in the basketball game all made us experience the charm of the sports meeting. The champion is the hero in our hearts, and the students who ran at the end but still sprinted to the finish line tenaciously are also worthy of the title of strong. "Developing the National Games, enhancing the physical fitness of the whole people, and enriching the cultural life of the whole people" is our goal of this sports meeting.

This sports meeting was well-organized and achieved excellent results. This is the result of the athletes obeying the command, uniting and striving hard, the result of the athletes of each team talking about sportsmanship and friendship, and the result of the cooperation of all the staff of the sports meeting, regardless of gains and losses, and selfless contribution. This sports meeting is a successful meeting. Through it, the cohesion of each of our classes and teams has been strengthened; through it, the style and talents of many of our classmates have been displayed; through it, our love for sports and love for life have been developed.

Friends, teachers, and students, youth never gives up, fighting hard leads to success, unity brings strength, and struggle creates success. Our competition on the sports field has ended, but the competition on the stage of life will never stop. I hope that all teachers, students, and people from all walks of life will transfer the enterprising spirit of striving for excellence and daring to be the first in this sports meeting; the team spirit of unity, friendship, and cooperation; the psychological quality of not being arrogant when winning and not being discouraged when losing; the willpower of perseverance and never giving up that was shown in this sports meeting to our study and life, so that our lives will be more fulfilling, our lives will be more exciting, and our future will be more brilliant!

Finally, I declare that the Xinxing Commune National Track and Field Games have come to a successful conclusion.

There was thunderous applause below the rostrum.

Athletes, teachers and students from various schools lined up in neat rows and left the venue one after another to the sound of the athletes' march.

Zhan Mengyan took her prize (a towel, a diary, a notebook, and a pencil with an eraser). She was very happy and prepared three gifts, each of which was a notebook and a pencil with an eraser. She planned to give the towel to her mother and keep the diary for herself to write in her diary.

After school, Zhan Mengyan went home, handed the towel to Yunqing and said, "Mom, this is the prize I won for the first place in the high jump and long jump in the sports meet. It was awarded by the sports meet organizing committee. I also used the prize I won from playing basketball to prepare small gifts for my three nieces. I want to go to my eldest brother's house to see my three nieces."

"Our Mengyan is really amazing to win such a good prize. Mengyan, please give the gifts to your three nieces quickly to make them very happy. You should also come back early, and mom will make red bean rice and fried shredded potatoes for you for dinner." Yunqing said happily.

Zhan Mengyan came to her eldest brother Zhan Ziyou's house, her sister-in-law Guihua, and her three daughters - Zhan Qiqi, Zhan Zhuozhuo, and Zhan Jiaojiao were practicing writing. When the three nieces saw their aunt Zhan Mengyan coming, they all happily came forward and shouted: "Aunt Mengyan, Aunt Mengyan..."

"Sister Mengyan, please help your sister-in-law take care of your three nieces for a while. I'm going to Sister-in-law Li Er's house to find some shoe patterns." Guihua said to Zhan Mengyan.

"Okay, sister-in-law, you go ahead. I'll teach them how to write. I've won a lot of prizes in the sports meet these days, so I'll give each of my three nieces a small gift - a notebook and a pencil with an eraser." Zhan Mengyan said as she gave each niece a small gift.

After Guihua left, her third niece Zhan Jiaojiao said, "Aunt Mengyan, I'm tired from writing and want to take a break. Can you curl my hair for me? Look at how beautiful the little girl's hair is in this painting."

Zhan Mengyan looked at the picture on the wall: a little girl with curly hair was looking at her with a smile.

"Why does my aunt have curly hair? She must go to the barber shop to get it done, right?" Zhan Mengyan said.

"Aunt Mengyan, this kind of curly hair can be done at a barber shop, but it costs money. Our neighbor Erpang's sister used a hair hook to heat it up and curled Erpang's hair. The curled hair looks so beautiful. Aunt, please use our hair hook to perm our three hair as well." Zhan Qiqi said.

"Aunt Mengyan, please perm Jiaojiao's hair. She loves beauty so much. I'm afraid I won't be able to do it well if you ask me to perm her hair. Now the three of us will do it together, and Sister Qiqi and I will help. We will definitely be able to perm Jiaojiao's hair into beautiful curls..."