American Entertainment 1982

  Chapter 47 Unequal Transactions

  Otilia tried to take a few deep breaths, and slowly walked into the balcony on the second floor of the government building, Tommy Hawke, who was recording images with a handheld video recorder as material,

  And Tommy Hawk didn't notice Ottilia's approach at all. At this time, he was fully recording a figure on the street not far away, who was the most powerful commander of the armed forces in this country.

  The national police chief in charge of 17 police stations in the country, Colin John, the same name as Papa Tommy.

A black elite who had served in the British Army and was trained in Scotland Yard, and had won many medals, was wearing headphones and listening to Dennis' Walkman, standing on the road in front of the police station, swaying with the strong rhythm, just listening In the eyes of other people who don't see the music, they look like a convulsed fool.

   It's hard to imagine that the security of this country is in the hands of such a guy who twists his body at high speed in front of Tommy, as if trying to shake off his body fat.

  Dennis was standing on the second-floor balcony of the National Police Station. Although he was dressed in casual clothes, he was surrounded by several black policemen in gray-blue police uniforms. It seemed that he was asking Dennis for instructions on what to do next.

   Obviously Dennis is trying to be an experiencer, giving priority to experiencing the upcoming government affairs simulation activities of their summer camp, and temporarily serving as the chief of police in this country. Judging by his expression, he is very interested in this kind of thing.

Because Tommy heard a policeman report to Dennis that a sugarcane field in St. George's parish had been destroyed, the local police station hoped that Dennis could bring other police officers to the local area to support and arrest the culprit together, a total of four wild boars. Wild boars have destroyed many sugar cane fields, and the local police station is somewhat short of manpower and equipment.

  Dennis believes that don’t make unnecessary sacrifices, don’t let yourself get hurt, and be good at using your advantages to fight the enemy.

So after he thought about it carefully, he gave a plan of action: Find a way to find out where the American embassy is, and then prepare to drive the four wild boars to the embassy with people beating gongs and drums, and trap the wild boars in the embassy, ​​so that The U.S. embassy can ask the U.S. to send a battle-hardened Marine Corps to help catch pigs in hand-to-hand combat on the grounds that the U.S. embassy has been invaded.

The reason why the wild boars were caught in hand-to-hand combat was because Dennis felt that after the wild boars were caught alive, he would open a zoo by the way. Maybe the marines from afar could visit the local zoo as tourists when they had a rest after catching the pigs. Earn some dollars and increase the country's income.

  The policemen who heard his words wiped their faces subconsciously. Two of them couldn't help but turned their heads and looked in the direction of the government building. They seemed to be thinking, where did their governor and prime minister find such young American leaders? When you came here, you accidentally fell into the sea and soaked your brain? Or a clownfish swimming down his ear into his brain? So make this young man look less like a leader and more like a clown?

His subordinates are telling Dennis right now that there is no American embassy here. More than a dozen countries in the entire Caribbean share one American embassy in the Caribbean, headquartered in Barbados, and there is only one American embassy in the Caribbean in Kings The liaison office in Dunton, and it is still in the government building. If wild boars are driven to the diplomatic office, half of the town on the way may be destroyed by wild boars first.

After listening to Dennis's action plan and comparing the two, Tommy felt that it would be better to leave the country's security to the dancing Director Colin. After all, Director Colin just likes to convulse his body to the music, and Dennis has brain convulsions all the time. .

   "Tommy?" Otilia's nervous voice sounded.

   "Miss Farrell, what happened?" Tommy Hawk followed the sound and turned to look at Ottilia.

  The beautiful teacher in front of her face was apologetic, with her hands behind her back at this time, judging from the standing posture at this time, it can be judged that she seems to have done something that she might feel ashamed of herself.

Ottilia looked at Tommy Hawke: "That's right, when my father learned about my recent employment, he kindly suggested that I submit your application to Lincoln High School and prepare an additional one." Submit it to other places, I think his suggestion is good, so I submitted the second copy for you without your consent."

"Besides submitting to Lincoln High School, I don't know where else to submit." Tommy Hawk shrugged a little blankly: "As a school-level club, if there are other issues that need approval, the school administration department can also come forward Handle it for us."

"That's true, but you and I both know that because Lincoln High School didn't think highly of the event you initiated, it didn't continue to apply at all. It just gave us the minimum support of 1,000 yuan to establish a school-level club. This is... I mean, this is a multinational event, and of course they know that the money is not enough, but they don't want to support it, which means they don't like you, so... So I submitted another application to the Rhode Island Superintendent of Public Instruction, hoping that if When the funds in our hands are exhausted, we can get a little extra support." Otilia said what she did.

  Hearing what Ottilia said, Tommy Hawk was a little confused.

Superintendent of Public Instruction, seventh in the state legislature, appears to be a low ranking, seventh in line successor to the Governor's position, needs Rhode Island Governor and General, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General , the state auditor general, and the chief financial officer all hang up before they can take over the position of governor of Rhode Island.

   But in fact, this position is not low, because all public education affairs in Rhode Island are under the leadership of the superintendent and the state education board of which he is the secretary general.

If all public schools want to apply for financial support, they need to report to him. If he does not agree, they will not be able to obtain state financial allocations. The appointment and dismissal of all non-teaching administrative positions in public schools will also be finalized by him. According to A state in the United States is equivalent to the federal system of the same country. In a simple summary, this guy is equivalent to the Minister of Education of Rhode Island.

   "So why can you be sure that the other party can accept your leapfrog application submission instead of just sending it back?" Tommy Hawke stared into Otilia's eyes and asked.

"Because the current director of public education, Mr. Frank Chaffee, is my godfather." Ottilia said, "But I didn't change any words in your application, I just... put the application in an envelope with my name on it Sent it to his office."

   "Then why did you decide to tell me again? You did it out of good intentions, so according to your personality, you must not tell me." Tommy Hawke looked at the guilty teacher in front of him, and comforted: "It's okay."

Ottilia took a few deep breaths: "I'm not sure whether I'm doing the right thing or wrong now, because I called Lincoln High School to report the situation an hour ago, according to the normal work flow, and learned of an amazing News, I think it is unlikely that we can do it because of our own efforts, I am not denying your efforts, but...it seems to have nothing to do with hard work."

"what news?"

   "You know, Princeton doesn't have an official summer camp, right?"

   "You said no before in the chat, but you have participated in some summer unofficial activities that departments or professors participated in."

"That's right, that's where I got the call. Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs knew about the CSLS program and called Lincoln High School to find out about the situation, and said that a professor from the school told us about the Caribbean Sea we mentioned. I am interested in the regional summer summit, and I hope to know more about the summer camp content. Please fax a more detailed introduction to the activities from Lincoln High School recently. Our principal dialed the number four times to check that the other party's phone number is indeed from Princeton University, I believe that I am not dreaming. The school is holding a meeting now to calculate the maximum salary that the school can pay if the other party is really willing to attend our summer camp. Mr. Daisy and Mrs. Wharton, the provost, went to dance part-time to earn money, and they should seize this opportunity. He hopes that you will return to school as soon as possible after the inspection, and come up with the most detailed and comprehensive summer camp plan. He will review it word by word and fax it in person. to the other party."

Tommy Hawk's eyes widened subconsciously. A professor from Princeton University is willing to attend a summer camp initiated by one of his public high schools, not to mention the principal willing to dance. Now Tommy Hawk takes Dennis and Pam along the street from St. Vincent If you want to make money dancing and dance, you are willing to go back to Rhode Island, so it's Princeton!

  Look at how many tour groups this summer are just taking high school students around Princeton University without any real academic plan, but with the title of summer camp, there are more than a dozen, and all of them are full! Parents of American high school students are willing to pay money.

  As long as the news is true, Tommy Hawk feels that there is no need to promote other things. Putting the name of the Princeton professor can make hundreds of thousands of real elite high school students pay out.

  Otilia waited for Tommy Hawk to recover, and whispered again: "And my godfather, he graduated from Princeton University, I think all this is probably related to him."

"Princeton, which is hundreds of kilometers away, can't come to our door because of our promotional advertisement, right? Because we haven't really started promoting it, and even if they see it, they won't be interested in learning about it. Junk High School's school-level summer camp activities." Tommy Hawke exhaled, looked at the sea in the distance, took several deep breaths in a row, tried to digest the news, and then turned to look at Ottilia:

"So, what did your father, Mr. Farrell, want me to add to the application? Don't hide it. It must be something that I want to add or modify. I understand, and it doesn't matter what you add, it doesn't matter. Question, Miss Farrell, your godfather they give too much, so much that I don't think it's real, just a summer camp, worthy of your godfather's Princeton name? This is too scary, doesn't he know a Princeton The name of Princeton will attract countless high school students who are eager to have an intersection with Princeton, just let you create a new one yourself."

  Otilia lowered her head, as if she was still ashamed of her father's words: "Put your name behind mine humbly, that's what my father said so arrogantly back then."

"Don't say it's behind your name, I'll cross out my name completely, and then help you silence Dennis and Pam who know about it, so it's okay to prevent anyone from revealing the secret!" Tommy Hawke made an exaggerated expression , smiling Otilia said:

"I already felt that this world was not real, because this small country is too perfect, it exists for our summer camp, black people, friendly and open-minded, now, even more unreal news has appeared, your godfather threw me I feel that the news in this world is even more absurd. Even if I change the name of the club to only you, I feel that it is not as good as what he paid, too much, really too much, this is a completely unequal transaction."

"I just hope that when we are short of funds, he may see my name and let the school approve more funds to support our activities. I didn't expect it to become like this. Tommy, I never thought of taking it away from you. I even called him and my father just now, but they didn't admit it."

"It doesn't matter whether they admit it or not. The important thing is that they have already made arrangements. What you can do now is not to disappoint these arrangements and pampering for you. I will withdraw the application and revise it after I go back. , I don’t care, I just want to earn tuition fees and a good resume on paper, and now he added the word Princeton, which means that as long as I complete this summer camp, I have everything, and you know, plus Princeton’s Coupled with the ideas provided by the Prime Minister of this country, I suddenly feel that our summer summit seems to be completely real." Tommy Hawke said to Otilia with twinkling eyes:

   "I'm talking about the real American elite high school students, the real summer summit, not the American teenage student leaders like Dennis who can come up with the American army to help catch wild boars."

  (end of this chapter)