Having no alarm clock, boy goes to school at midnight  

6歲男孩買不起鬧鐘 怕遲到晚上10點摸黑上學

11月25日晚，因父親出門去上夜班，家里只剩他一個人。從大營到納古小學要走三四公里的路程，因家里買不起鬧鐘，他擔心第二天早上睡過頭上學遲到。思來想去，小男孩用塑料袋裝好書本，晚上10點多就出門，一直步行到納古，打算就這樣一直等到天亮學校開門。[查看全文]

(ECNS) -- To avoid being late for school in the morning, a six-year-old boy in Yunnan province chose to go to school the night before because his family can't afford an alarm clock.

Xing Yu is a second-year pupil at a primary school in Tonghai county, Yuxi city, Yunnan province. His mother left home several years ago, and Xing lives with his father and sister in a tiny house three kilometers from the school.

On Monday night, the boy was at home alone while his father worked a night shift and his sister was away.

Having no alarm clock, the boy decided to go to school that night. He left home at about 10 pm, with his textbooks in a plastic bag.

He had been on the street for about four hours before a villager spotted him. The villager thought the boy might have been driven out by his parents, so he called the local police.

A police officer gave an alarm clock as a gift to Xing Yu on Wednesday.