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分享一篇文章： It was apparently a case of "absence from duty" - 23 teachers from a high school in Chongqing suspended classes for three days early this month to take a trip to Hainan, a subtropical tourist attraction. After media reported the event last week, however, the audience - mostly netizens - refrained from panning the teachers as they normally would public servants touring courtesy of the public purse. Instead, they expressed sympathy for the teachers from the Gaoxie Middle School of Dushi, the most remote rural township in mountainous Jiangjin county of Chongqing municipality. Some even said they were "moved to tears" by the report. I was, too. In fact, the teachers did not spend a single cent of public money. They paid for the plane tickets - amounting to their salaries of three months. Accommodation and most of the meals were paid by an alumnus who had graduated from the school 21 years ago. The alumnus now owns a tourism company in Hainan province. Being so impoverished, the teachers previously had not traveled to any place outside the mountainous region. Zhang, in his 60s, had never seen the sea even though he had taught geography for 39 years. After returning to the school, the teachers shared their experiences with their students. None owns a camera, so they relied on vivid descriptions of beaches, coconut trees and the sea of clouds they saw through the planes' windows to broaden their students' imaginations. They also brought coconuts back and gave each student a morsel of the alien fruit's fresh juice. | 
