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This is a true story, about the "journey to school" of primary school children in a village called Bario, in Northern Sarawak in the 1950s. It was during the era of British colonial rule, and there were not many houses in the longhouse settlements, so the boarding school was built within several longhouses. At that time, there were no roads or cars, so many children had to walk to school; and the boarding was free. Throughout their six years of primary school, each student traveled up to 100,000 kilometers on foot... They walked on narrow paths through the tropical rainforest, without clothes, and their only cover was a cloth called "Cawat" to protect their modesty...
这是一个真实的故事，是1950年代北砂拉越巴里奥小学孩童的“上学记”。那时是英殖民统治时代，长屋居民都不很多，寄宿小学就建在好几座长屋当中。当时没公路也没车，许多孩童只好走路到学校；住宿是全免。长达六年的小学生涯，每个学童徒步的行程可达10万公里……他们走在热带雨林的羊肠小径上，身上没有衣服，唯一的布料，就是俗称“焦瓦”的遮羞布……
