【推荐2】Ever since Lucy Nabiki Takona was a young girl growing up in a village in Kenya, she knew she wanted to have a career in education.

So when her father told her when she was 14 that she would have to drop out of school to marry the son of her father’s friend, she ran away. It took her three days to walk through the bush to her aunt’s house.

“I was used to walking, so for me it was not something big,” Takona says, “It was more scary to get married than walk on your own in the bush.”

Later, Takona’s aunt talked to some influential elders in the community who were able to persuade her father to let her continue her schooling – while schooling for many Masai girls ends in their early teen years.

As a child, Takona says, she thought her only career option as a woman was to be a teacher. But during a trip to the Nairobi National Museum in her last year of high school, she realized there were other possibilities. “A woman took us around the museum and she really had knowledge, so from that day forward I knew girl’s could be something more than teacher.” Takona says.

So she went to study at the Koiyaki Guiding School for two years on a scholarship from a volunteer travel organization African Impact. She then worked for the group as a guide for 18 months in return.

But on the road to success, Takona has had to make personal sacrifices. She is the single mother of a 4-year-old boy. “It’s rare in a Masai community to be a independent woman,” says Evaline Sintoya Mayetu, who was the first Masai woman to get the Silver Guide Qualification in March 2015. “I would like to see more Masai women go for not only the Silver Guide Qualification but go to school, to have a career of their own and break some barriers of traditional culture.”

【推荐3】The life of a premature (早产的) baby born during the winter storm in Texas was saved thanks to a team of medical professionals, including a doctor and two nurses who traveled from east Austin to Marble Falls in an effort to save the newborn baby's life.

When Arias began experiencing pains, she and her parents headed to the closest hospital, Baylor Scott & White. Arias gave birth to her daughter, Zaylynn, who weighed just over one pound and was in need of advanced special care. However, the hospital does not offer the specialized care premature babies require, short of proper equipment.

"We had five or six people out at the nurses' station calling hospital networks all over the state of Texas, "said Meredith Schubert, the nurse on duty when Arias arrived. "Nobody could answer our cry for help."

They finally reached Dr. John Loyd, division neonatologist chief at Dell Children's Medical Center in Austin, Texas. Around 5 pm, after already having worked a long time , Loyd packed his SUV with equipment and he and two NICU (新生儿重症监护室) nurses set out for Marble Falls, about 55 miles away. The drive took Loyd and the nurses about two hours as they drove in the night through ice and snow.

After safely arriving at the Marble Falls medical center around 8 pm, the Dell Children's workers set up a simple NICU. Together, the Dell Children's and Baylor Scott & White teams worked around the clock to care for the mother and daughter.

Once the weather cleared enough to allow for a helicopter to safely land, Zaylynn was sent to Dell Children's, where there is a Level IV NICU.

"It was unbelievable when the helicopter lifted off. There were tears from all of us," said Schubert. "It was a huge relief (安慰) and sense of accomplishment and joy that she was doing so well and getting to the place that she needed to be."

Arias told KVUE that she was thankful to the doctors and nurses who worked together to save her daughter.

【推荐3】My first day at senior high

I rushed out of my home with eagerness to get to know my new school.     1     I had imagined it over and over again in my mind.

    2     And there were several new brilliant buildings standing on the playground. “You are a new student, right? ” A soft voice behind me asked. Turning around, I saw a young lady. “Yes, ” I said. “    3     So if you need any help, please turn to me, ” she said with a smile on her face.

    4    . When I stepped into it, all the students had been there. Our head teacher, a middle-aged man with black and curly hair came in.     5     I felt very nervous. The feeling lasted more than half an hour, because I was the last one to give the introduction.

What an impressive day!