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Without an alarm clock, Chinese boy walks to school at night | News.com.au
WHEN a Chinese villager found a young boy wandering the streets of his small town on the morning of November 26, he immediately feared the worst. Had the boy's parents driven him out of the house? Was he a runaway?
As it turned out, Xing Yu's family was simply too poor to afford an alarm clock: Fearing that he would be late the next morning, he had walked in the middle of the night to get to school.
ChinaSMACK reports Xing, 6, was taken to a nearby police station, where an officer learned the boy’s mother had abandoned the family, leaving his father and sister with little money to survive on.
When his dad left for his night shift on November 25, Xing worried that, without an alarm clock, he would oversleep the next morning and arrive late to school. So he packed his books and began the 3-4 kilometre walk in the middle of the night.
The police officer contacted the boy’s school and his father, who immediately returned home to meet his son.
In a heartwarming twist, the officer returned the next day to give Xing an alarm clock.
“With this, I won’t have to worry about being late to school anymore,” he said, apparently choking with emotion.
WHEN a Chinese villager found a young boy wandering the streets of his small town on the morning of November 26, he immediately feared the worst. Had the boy's parents driven him out of the house? Was he a runaway?
As it turned out, Xing Yu's family was simply too poor to afford an alarm clock: Fearing that he would be late the next morning, he had walked in the middle of the night to get to school.
ChinaSMACK reports Xing, 6, was taken to a nearby police station, where an officer learned the boy’s mother had abandoned the family, leaving his father and sister with little money to survive on.
When his dad left for his night shift on November 25, Xing worried that, without an alarm clock, he would oversleep the next morning and arrive late to school. So he packed his books and began the 3-4 kilometre walk in the middle of the night.
The police officer contacted the boy’s school and his father, who immediately returned home to meet his son.
In a heartwarming twist, the officer returned the next day to give Xing an alarm clock.
“With this, I won’t have to worry about being late to school anymore,” he said, apparently choking with emotion.