女人的弱点(3)

In China, vocational school is a code word for the camp of poor, naughty students. Having got poor marks and been eliminated in the entrance examination for high school, they had no other choice but enter an inferior one. I was one among them then. Although I was a diligent boy and, not like my peers, wasted least amount of my time and effort on computer games and TV series, I constantly got poor marks at school, because I didn’t really think study has anything to do with performance in school. As a result, I could only get an inferior place in the current education system and keep company with a gang of low-grade boys. My parents were quite worried about my future: if I continued like this, I was sure to reduce to the bottom, then how could I support myself and my family? So, they always kept on at me about the importance of the marks and warned me to keep my mind on the preparation of the college entrance examination, because only when I was accepted as a college student could I distinguish myself academically in the exam-oriented Chinese education system. In spite of the annoyance they brought to me, I turned a deaf ear to it. Perhaps I had very little brains then, I concerned nothing beyond math. I never thought anything about my future.