尊敬的校长们、老师们，亲爱的家长们、同学们：

大家现在好！我是2024届毕业生蒋盛源King的妈妈Merry，很欣喜也很荣幸能在这个重要的时刻作为毕业生家长代表。

今天我和大家分享的主题是----选择,遇见与成长。

因为一次正确的选择让我和我家的King生活在属于自己的幸福的时区里，一切都准时在命运里有所安排，遇见瑞得福让我们实现了自己的梦想，拿到了十多个Offer，申请到了自己心仪的大学专业。

我本来是一位中学英语老师，一直对儿子有着更高的期待和要求。在2018年小升初的关键阶段，我陪着King辗转于各种国际化学校的入学考试以及面试之中。最后，我们选择了离家最近的一所双语学校的国际部。

当交完学费我以为这一切将尘埃落定的时候，意外却接连不断。选择的学校一再延迟开学，而在开学后，我却意外得知国际部搬迁了，新校园装修还未完工。新学校的课程安排、师资配置、教材版本，以及校园文化，都让我和King产生了巨大的心理落差，在King入学3天后，我和他商量后毅然决然地选择退学，重新踏上择校之旅。

重新出发需要很大的勇气，但到现在我和King也没有后悔做这个决定。

9月份之后，国际学校大多已经进入了各自的滚动招生期，我们从最初掌握主动权的一方，变成被动选择的一方。但是我一点没有放弃的想法，King也对转学国际学校态度坚定。

我们每天都在深入咨询不同的渠道，查阅各种国际学校官网，这个过程简直让人焦头烂额，所幸的是瑞得福学校走进了我们的视线。

紧锣密鼓的开始联系学校的招生老师，报名入学考试。那时候瑞得福已经开学一个月了，虽然历尽波折，但King的发挥还算稳健，顺利通过了瑞得福的入学考试并拿到录取通知书。

我依稀记得2018年9月18号那天，我和king 走进瑞得福校园，全新的环境和学习气氛让我们觉得莫名心安。看着擦肩而过的外教老师，怀抱教材前往教室的学生，他们那自信洋溢的笑容，从容洒脱的谈吐，让我和King心醉神迷。

装满美术作品、实验报告，以及活动照片的展示板，内容毫不掩饰的肆意大胆，尽显风采。鲜明多元的校园文化，对于一个老师身临其境的第一次体验到了“世界就在脚下，有趣的人就在身边”的奇妙感觉，好想和King一起来上学呀！

那时候，我和King站在瑞得福的HONOR ROLL学术光荣榜下，上面闪亮而自信的面孔和傲人的成绩，牢牢抓住了我们的目光。King仰望着优秀的他们，对我说：“妈！！以后每学期都要上榜，我要一直在这面墙上。”King给我许下的诺言真的就实现了。（此刻是不是该有掌声呢？）

说实话，King作为晚来一个月的插班生，我很担心他，因为一直都是生活在我的身边的，从来没有离开过家，刚来到瑞得福的第一周我就住在校门口的酒店，不敢回家，担心他不适应。等待周五的日子就像过了一年一样漫长，结果周末接到他的时候他说“洪妈妈”（班主任）对他很好，让他感受到了家的温暖，这下我一直悬着的心终于放下了。

回家的路上，King和我分享学校的各种趣事, 对于King喜欢吃西餐的人来说，太完美了，学校兼有中、西餐厅，校长、老师和学生们日常坐在一起用餐，他们毫不吝啬展现生活中和蔼可亲的一面，在他们身上，King看到大人的无畏，感受到了阅历丰富的长者们为人处事的从容魅力。在学校，他们是师长，是引路人，也是家人一样的存在

我和King很喜欢这里自由选课的教学方式，比如他的数学比较好，可以直接跳级选择代数二。瑞得福每个外教老师上课都很幽默风趣，我依然清晰记得King上科学课学习牛顿第三定侓，老师组织同学们去操场做试验，还拍了视频和照片发到班级群的，我看到后分享给我的学生们看，他们投来羡慕的眼神。

六年里我跟着King一起成长进步了许多，让我学会了更多和我的学生们的相处之道。King经常跟我说---我们瑞得福的老师们不按常理出牌，创新的课题形式让King觉得很有意思，老师们把在异国他乡成就的才能，在一个陌生的国度毫无保留地传授。这种多元的文化碰撞，让King跳出了认知的局限，真切地走向世界。

正是因为不设限的教学风格，老师们的不定义欣赏。让我家的King可以大胆地在课堂和同学们讨论发言。King开始越发展露自己自信的一面，各种社团喜欢的不得了，和学长们在篮球场上一决高下，喜欢在电音社制作音乐，课余时间还兼顾做图书管理员，参加各种义工活动，学校的健身房成了他常去的场所。还创办了《食堂提升社》并担任创社社长，这一切，让King变得越来越有责任感。

如今站在学校的HIGH HONOR ROLL荣誉榜前，King的承诺做到了，我为拥有这样的他感到自豪！在瑞得福的六年里，我发现他逐步学会规划自己的未来，为自己的目标努力奋斗。我可以自信的说，从没有让我为他的作业而烦恼过，瑞得福《家庭科学》和《AP心理学》的课程让King更懂得如何与家人融洽相处，从以前的羞涩扭捏，到现在直接向我吐露心声。在这个过程中，我们都懂得了珍惜生活中的每一份美好！特别是疫情网课的时候，我给我的学生们上课的时候，他给我做的那碗面条，那个味道，是我这一辈子吃过的最好吃的面！

细数这几年成长的点点滴滴，很庆幸King和我在自己的时区里，抬头遇见了瑞得福学校这颗启明星，照亮我和King的前行。让我相信了一切皆是最好的安排。这个美丽的遇见让King更自信，更自律，更有责任感，成就了最好的他。在以后没有遮拦的天空下，有骄傲的丰满羽翼，让他有充足的勇气面对以后人生的任何挑战，踏上新的征途。

今年九月份，King就要奔赴梦想中的大学，去实现更大的理想，祝福他以梦为马，不负韶华，不断夯实自己的专业知识和素养，将来为社会、为人类做出应有的贡献！

感谢瑞得福所有的老师们给King的帮助和教导！感谢瑞得福这个开放多元的平台给了孩子充分成长和锻炼的机会！

最后，祝今天在场所有的毕业生孩子们，祝你们前程似锦！祝你们在人生最美好的年华里，乘势而上，振垂天之云翼，开万里之鹏程！

谢谢！

Dear Principals, Teachers, Parents, and Students,

Hello, everyone! I am Merry, the mother of Jiang Shengyuan King, a graduate of 2024. I am delighted and honored to represent the parents of the graduates at this significant moment.

Today, I am sharing a theme: Choice, Encounter, and Growth.

A right choice led my son and me to live in our own happy time, and everything was arranged by fate. We encountered RDF, which helped us realize our dream, receive numerous offers, and apply for our favorite university major.

I used to be a middle school English teacher in the traditional school system, so I have always had high expectations and requirements for my son. At the critical stage of junior high school in 2018, I accompanied King to the entrance examinations and interviews of various international schools. Finally, we chose the international department of the bilingual school closest to our home.

When I paid the tuition, I thought everything would be settled, but unfortunately, the accidents continued. The opening of the chosen school was delayed repeatedly, and after it opened, I was surprised to learn that the International Department had been relocated and the decoration of the new campus had not been completed. The curriculum arrangement of the new school, the allocation of teachers, textbooks, and the campus culture all created a huge psychological gap between King and me. After three days in the school, King and I decided to drop out and started the journey of choosing another school again.

It takes a lot of courage to start again, but until now, King and I have not regretted making this big decision.

After September, most international schools have entered their own rolling enrollment period, and we have changed from being proactive to being passive. But I didn’t give up at all, and King was determined to transfer to an international school.

Every day, we consulted through different channels and checked the official websites of various international schools. This process was very worrying. Fortunately, RDF International School came into our sight.

I began to contact the school’s admissions consultant to register for the entrance exam. At that time, the school had been starting for a month. Despite all the twists and turns, King performed quite steadily, passed the examination successfully, and received the admission letters.

I vaguely remember that on September 18th, 2018, King and I walked into the RDF campus. The new environment and learning atmosphere made us feel strangely at ease. Looking at the expat teachers, the students holding the textbook to the classroom, their confident smiles, calm and easy talks, fascinated King and me.

Full of artworks, experimental reports, and activity photos on the display board, the content is undisguised, wanton, bold, showing the style. The bright and diverse campus culture, for a system of teachers in the first experience “the world is at the foot, interesting people are around.” The wonderful feeling that it really made me want to go to RDF school with King!

At that time, King and I stood in front of the HONOR ROLL academic honor roll, with shining and confident faces and proud achievements, which firmly caught our eyes. King looked up to the excellent students and said to me, “Mom!! I’m going to be on the list every semester, and I’m going to be on this Honor Wall.” King’s promise to me was really fulfilled. (I think there is some applause right now?)

To tell you the truth, King, as a transfer student coming a month late, I was very worried about him because he has always lived around me and has never left home. In the first week when I came to RDF, I stayed in the hotel near the school, and I dared not go home, worried that he would not adapt. Waiting for Friday felt like a year. As a result, when I picked him up on the weekend, he said “Hong Mum” was very kind to him, let him feel the warmth of home. When I heard it, I was relieved.

On the way home, King and I shared all kinds of fun. For King, who likes to eat western food, it is so perfect. RDF school has western restaurants, principals, teachers, and students sit together for dinner daily, they are not stingy to show their amiable side in life, on them, King sees adults fearless, feels the experienced elders’ calm charm. At school, they are teachers, guides, and family members.

King and I like the teaching method of choosing courses at RDF. For example, his math is great, and we can choose algebra 2 directly. Every foreign teacher in RDF was very humorous in class. I still remember the class that King had Newton’s third law of physics that physics teacher organized the students to go to the playground to do experiments, and Miss Hong took videos and photos which she sent to the class group and shared them with students’ parents. When I showed the video to my public school students, all the students expressed envy.

In the past six years, I have grown and improved a lot with King, learning more ways to get along with my students. King often told me our teachers do not follow the common sense, innovative project form makes King feel very interesting, teachers teach the talents in a foreign country in a strange country without reservation. This collision of diverse cultures makes King jump out of the limitations of cognition and truly go to the world.

It is precisely because of the unlimited style of teaching, the teachers do not define the appreciation. Let King can boldly discuss with the students in class. King began to develop more and more confident. He likes all kinds of clubs, such as the electronic music club, rugby club, volleyball club, fitness club. If you go to RDF fitness club, you must find King there at 5 pm. He competed with seniors on the basketball court. At the same time, he is keen on volunteering, he is not only a librarian he also founded the canteen Promotion Club and served as the president of the innovation club, which made King become more and more responsible.

Now standing in front of the HIGH HONOR ROLL honor list, King’s promise is fulfilled, I am proud of him! During his six years in RDF, I found that he gradually learned to plan his future and work hard for his goals. I can confidently say that he never bothered me about his homework. The courses of “Family Science” and “AP Psychology” made King know how to get along well with his family, from shy and shy to now speak directly to me about his opinion. In this process, we all know how to cherish every beauty in life! Especially in the epidemic online class, when I was having class, he made a bowl of noodles for me. The taste is the most delicious noodles I have ever eaten in my life!

Considering the details of King’s growth in recent years, I am glad that King and I met the star of RDF International School in our time zone, illuminating the progress of King and me. Made me believe that everything is the best arrangement. This beautiful encounter made King more confident, more disciplined, more responsible, and made the best of him. In the future, under the sky that is not blocked, there are proud full of wings, so that he has enough courage to face any challenges in his life in the future, and embark on a new journey.

In September this year, King will go to his dream university to realize greater ambitions. Wish him taking dreams as horses does not lose youth, constantly consolidate his professional knowledge and accomplishment, and make due contributions to the society and human beings in the future!

Thanks to all the teachers for their help and teaching! Thanks to the open and diversified platform of providing children with ample opportunity for growth and exercise!

Finally, I wish all the graduates present today and may your future be as successful as a piece of brocade. I wish you to ride the wave of opportunity, flap your wings in the high sky, and open up a future of limitless possibilities during the best your life.

Thank you!