“New houses in Bashan” project includes “new houses, new industries , new facilities and new fashion” as the main content, gathering farmers, who were scattered in the northeastern Sichuan DaBaShan areas before, to live together, build new homes for them according to the standard of modern new rural residence, and develop local industry, helping them to eliminate poverty. To completely change the villagers’ production and living conditions, to ensure that poverty is eliminated forever, we want to show the real changes in our hometown by this theme project.

In our school, we get access to internet by fiber cable with the bandwidth of the 5 M. and because there are many computers in school network, the online speed is kind of slow.

Lack courage : as instructor goes to the school, we have to finish the interview, while the farthest place we have been is our county, and we have to go to the scenic spot at our own without the accompany of adults, thinking about this, we feel a little at loss without courage. With the persuasion and encouragement of our teacher, we finally summon up courage to go with bags on our back.

Route: as the famous “New houses in Bashan” scatters in three counties and two districts in BaZhong City, it is impossible visit them one by one. In order to visit the settlements, problem besides how to arrange the route, it is our big problem to consider money and time.
Time: we have many courses at school, so we have to use the weekend to carry out the project. How to arrange time is our big problem. So we use the weekend to complete our interview and collect the first hand information.

Network: because we live in mountain area where telecommunication is inconvenient with slow network and network failure problems happen constantly, which causes us some problems, and mobile Internet access by cell phone helps us solve the problem.

Blackouts: we live in the mountains, once it rains, there could be a power outage. This year, vegetation in our hometown is very good, which causes power failure when there is wind or heavy rain. When there is power outrage, we can’t record the information collected by our team members into the computer in time for sorting out, and we can’t search the material online to complete the web pages. In this situtaion, in order to finish our work, we had to work overtime at night when there is power.

Lack of computer knowledge: since we have limit access at home and the lack of computer hardware, our team members all lack computer knowledge, in this case, the school provides us with the two laptops to finish this project. Our instructor dedicated to training members participating in this contest, guide us to find information online, learning the relevant technology of making web pages.

Taking part in project, there are many first times of us in our life: for the first time, we come to the place which is hundreds of miles away from our living mountain area; For the first time , we visit the villa new countryside; Interview a stranger out of school for the first time with a shy flushed face; Use camera to take pictures for the first time with shaking hands; no courage at tall to participate in such a big contest for the first time... So many things starting from scratch, give us opportunity to grow with belief of triumph. This contest will benefit for our whole life. With two months of efforts, we collect the data , although web pages is not well finsihed, we finally make our first works.

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