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I feel as if I’m in a dream

Two months have already passed since I came to Pyongyang with my students as special guests after suffering flood damage. 

Time flies so fast. I wonder now and then if there could be any other people in the world who have such a good luck as that we have had.

What pleases me most is the daily changing looks of my students. 

In a matter of two months, everyone has become plump and taller and their faces brighter. 

They are now at the age of big appetite and are sufficiently supplied with various foods at every meal and even confectionery and fruits. 

And every student was provided with a tailored new school uniform, shoes, underwear, etc.

And the educational environment is pretty amazing. 

In a word, it can be said that an excellent school in Pyongyang has been removed to the April 25 Hotel, our temporary lodging. 

Every morning students go to school singing songs loudly, and every evening they hold a merry dance in the compound of the hotel.

Since they left their parents, they have been leading a happy life under the scrupulous care of the state that is tenderer and greater than their parents’.

I have been deeply impressed as I see their happy looks as an educator.

The blissful life we are leading here is associated with the loving care of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

He had personally directed the rescue operation on the spot in the disaster-stricken area to save all of us. And still he took several important measures for stabilizing the living of the flood victims, especially for the education of students, and went to the site to inspect a class of primary schoolchildren at work.

Thanks to the loving care of the great father, my students and I are enjoying a dream-like happy life.

Kim Chol, instructor of the Korean Children’s Union of Ojok Senior Middle School in Uiju County

Dreams get bigger 

I have come to cherish bigger and more dreams in Pyongyang.

As I visited the Sci-Tech Complex, Natural History Museum, Mangyongdae Schoolchildren’s Palace, etc. which I had frequently seen on TV, I felt an urge to become a brilliant scientist, musician or sportsman.

Every lesson is interesting and my teacher is pleased with our remarkable progress in school performance.

Many of us have left our parents for the first time.

But everyone is full of delight. They are busy telling their parents the news about their gratifying life in Pyongyang.

Every evening, my classmates get together to study and recite poems and everyone seems to have become a poet.

Their poems reflect their wish to become a brave fighter pilot, famous scientist, architect and professor, excellent chef and the like.

As we were rescued from disaster and as we feel thrills of excitement in Pyongyang, we have seen many people and things and in the course of that we have harboured big ambitions.

My teacher said that our native village would be turned into a wonderful “rural town” before long.

I will study hard to fulfil my dream in my village.

An Yu Jin, student of Ojok Senior Middle School in Uiju County