从地图上看，从博尔顿经过A675公路到普勒斯顿只有21英里/33.8公里，一天走完这样的里程并非我的最好成绩，然而事实上，却是我发挥最好的一天，我为什么会这样说呢？首先我起了个大早，7点半就已经整装出发。今天天气晴朗，云卷云舒，凉风习习。

一路上人行道铺设得很完善，无处不达。

我竟然在今天的全程35.80公里徒步中一次都没有迷路。一路爬坡走到兰开夏郡山丘，这里风光旖旎，还可以从另一个角度欣赏普雷斯顿市的别致风光。

宁静的乡间小路(多芙和高恩路)风光优美，一路上山峦起伏，蜿蜒曲折，我从这里取道格雷格森路，风景是如此别具一格。

下午4点我就完成了今天的徒步里程，我在普雷斯顿市找到一家星巴克，悠悠然地开始写我今天的徒步日志。

在英国，今天可是中学高考成绩公布结果的日子，是决定是否能进入理想大学和专业的日子，辛勤的汗水终将浇灌出丰硕的果实，改变人生的机遇就在眼前，当然也或许就此失去。

我从来没有过这种体验，因为我没有参加过高考，我读的是初中参加的是普考，考试使用单一评分系统，我的考试各科成绩结果刚好可以拼凑成一个单词——“软糖”（F-U-D-G-E），大家知道啦，在这个体系中，“A”代表优秀，“C”代表及格，“F”表示不及格，而“U”表示没有成绩。即便如此，我内心依然为取得优秀成绩的学生们感到高兴，因为我始终对优质的教育成果充满激情。或许这听上去有点奇怪，但是这份热爱和我对体育运动的感情并无两样。尽管在体育运动上，我获得的唯一一块奖牌是为了表彰我完成了有48000人参加的“大北跑”（半程马拉松），那次我的成绩排名第35,648，本来我有望成为第37,647名，但临近终点线的时候，我前面的两个跑手忽然开始争取最后的胜利，活脱脱成了哑剧中二人合演的一匹滑稽马，我完全没有办法超过他们。回到卓越和教育：因为不同的原因，今天公布的两个成绩抢占了头版新闻。当然，所谓的“不同”其实也差距不大。第一条消息是，兰卡斯特郡的诺贝尔和平奖获得者马拉拉·尤瑟夫高考成绩优异，被牛津大学录取。在我的生命中，我见过无数了不起的人，而马拉拉是最令人鼓舞的榜样：

2012年10月9日，那时马拉拉还只是巴基斯坦斯瓦特山谷里的一名15岁女生，当时，她正在放学回家的校车里，一个塔利班男人手持枪械（是的，居然可以随身带枪！），跑上了车，因为扭曲的宗教信仰不允许女孩有上学的权利，他居然走向马拉拉，朝她两次近距离射击，其中一颗子弹穿过她的头部卡在脖子里。她被丢弃在那里等待死亡，幸运的是，她并没有。马拉拉被送往伯明翰的伊丽莎白女王医院接受治疗，在接下来的几个月里，她先后接受了多项手术，包括长达5小时之久的头骨重构手术和人工耳蜗植入以恢复听力。康复后马拉拉到当地的一所学校上学，她被邀请到联合国大会上发表演讲，成为争取世界女性教育权利而闻名的社会活动家。2014年时，她和凯拉什·萨蒂亚尔希共同获得诺贝尔和平奖。

马拉拉的事迹深深影响了成千上万的女孩，让她们有勇气去反抗邪恶势力的威胁、维护自己接受教育的权利。袭击马拉拉的人正在巴基斯坦监狱里接受应有的惩罚，我希望他可以意识到，他的恶行不但不会吓得女孩纷纷离开学校，反而会让更多的女孩勇敢地踏进学校。马拉拉是无数人的英雄，当然也是我的英雄——我为她感到自豪。

当然也有一些令人伤感的故事，比如乔治娜·卡兰德的经历。她是兰卡斯特郡（离我今天住的酒店大概6英里远）雷兰镇朗沙中学的学生，一向成绩优异。乔治娜从12岁起就梦想成为一名儿科医生，她申请了儿科本科专业。5月22日那天，她去曼彻斯特体育馆观看爱莉安娜·格兰德的演唱会，不幸遇害。犯下罪行的恐怖分子有极度扭曲的宗教观，他居然坚信女人听流行音乐就该被杀。今天是高考放榜的日子，乔治娜本有机会查看结果——她被大学录取了，是她向往的儿科学。她的母亲伤心欲绝，一病不起。对于马拉拉的事迹，我们或许可以解释前因后果，但乔治娜的故事呢？我们应如何去解释为什么她遭此不幸呢？我希望能找到答案。也许莎士比亚已经告诉我了：“世事无常”。我们往往在寻找那些可以理解的事例，而忽略了那些难以解释的。 拥有希望是人类的天性，马拉拉·尤瑟夫通过她自身的经历和作为让世界再一次确信希望是存在的。我想说，从乔治娜的故事里，我也看到了希望，她想要帮助儿童的梦想也将激励更多人为儿童医疗这一伟大事业做贡献。

贝茨勋爵日志英文原文如下：Today walked: 22.30 milesTotal walk: 409.90 milesToday raised: ￡0.00 + ￥ 710.00Total raised fund: ￡ 9,322.09 + ￥ 69,303.45On paper 21 miles from Bolton to Preston on the A675 didn't look like it was going to be the best day of walking so far, but it was. What made it so?I made an early start--7:30AMThe weather was bright and cloudy with a cool breeze.There were footpaths every step of the way.I didn't get lost once.I was taken up into the Lancashire Hill Country and then treated to some very special views of Preston on the other side.The quiet country lanes (Dove and Gowans) leading down to Gregson Lane were very special.I managed an early finish 4PM in Preston plenty of time to find a Starbucks (Fishgate) to write my blog.Today has been 'A' (Advanced) Level results day in the UK. It is the day when students find out whether they have got the grades to take a place at their first choice university and degree course. It is a day when all the hard work comes to fruition and life changing opportunities are taken, or not.I have never known this experience personally as I never managed to take 'A' levels only 'O' (Ordinary levels) which were remarkable only for one thing and that was that the grade results perfectly spelt F-U-D-G-E (on a scale where A is a top pass, C is a pass F is a fail and and U is ungraded). That said, I am always excited to see others do well because I am passionate about excellence in education.This may sound strange but it is no different to being passionate about sport and love athletics despite the only medal I have won being for finishing 35,648th out of a field of 48,000 in the Great North Run (half marathon). I would have been 35,647th but I was overtaken on the finish line by the front half of two runners competing as a pantomime horse.Back to excellence and education: There were two results which caught the headlines today for different, and yet sadly not so different, reasons.The first was the news that Nobel Laureate, Malala Yousef secured the grades to take a place at Oxford University, Lancashire. I have mat many amazing people in my life but Malala was the most inspirational:On 9 October, 2012 Malala then a fifteen year old schoolgirl in the Swat Valley in Pakistan, was returning home on a school bus when a Taliban man armed with a gun (well it would be wouldn't it!) got on the bus because in his warped view of his religion he didn't believe that girls should be going to school. He went up to Malala and shot her twice at close range with a bullet going through her head and lodging in her neck. She was left for dead, but she didn't die.She was brought to England and underwent months of treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham including a five hour operation to reconstruct her skull and restore her hearing with a cochlear implant. Malala recovered sufficiently to attend a local school and became a powerful advocate for girls education around the world addressing the United Nations General Assembly and being jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.Through her example and her campaigning literally millions of girls have had the courage to stand up against intimidation and demand their right to educated as equals with boys. I hope her attacker now serving a prison sentence in Pakistan is aware that his evil act was an attempt to terrify young girls from going to school, but the effect has been the exact opposite. Malala is a hero to millions and I am proud to count myself amongst them.But there are other stories too: Georgina Callander was a star student at Runshaw College in Leyland, Lancashire around six miles from where I am writing this blog. Her dream since she was eleven was to be a children's doctor and had applied to study paediatrics (the branch of medicine dealing with children) at university. On 22 May she attended the Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena and was murdered by a terrorist whose warped view of his religion believed that he should kill girls and women because they were listening to pop music. Today, on the day when she should have been opening her A Level results her grief stricken mother revealed that she had won a place at university to study for a degree paediatrics.We rationalise and seek to make sense of what happened to Malala by what came out of it, but what about for Georgina? How do we explain that? I wish I knew? It seems as Shakespeare put it that there is 'neither rhyme (pattern) or reason (logic) in this world' but we want to believe otherwise so we choose the examples which make the case and overlook the ones that don't.It is in our nature to have hope and in giving thanks for Malala Yousef today and all her example has done and is doing around the world, I find myself drawn to express the hope that from Georgina's dream to help children others may be inspired to respond that beautiful and noble Calling.

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