Chapter 45 only needs paper honors
St. Vincent Island has only one runway at Theodore Joshua Airport. Tommy Hawk walked out of the airport with his travel bag on his back, beside Otilia, Dennis and Pam.
"I didn't expect that the air ticket price of 125 yuan can actually enjoy the charter flight service, but the service attitude is a bit poor, and the aircraft is too old." Otilia said while walking.
It can make her, who has an excellent personality, complain aloud, which shows how bad the service of this cheap flight is.
Tommy Hawk looked at the capital of the country in front of him, and his voice was a little weak: "I am afraid that no matter how old the model is, it is much newer than the capital in front of us. I thought it was very small, but obviously the imagination is still insufficient. "
The camera that was raised in Pam's hand was slowly put down as she saw the scene in front of her clearly, and said to Tommy Hawke: "I think it's better not to take the long view of the capital of this country and put it in the publicity, Tommy Hawke." M, this city is less than half the size of Warwick, and if you put a long-range photo on it, people will think that we are taking pictures in the countryside of Warwick."
"The travel brochure in my hand says that Kingston only has a population of 12,000. If I remember correctly, Warwick, which Boston ridiculed as a country, has a population of 80,000." Dennis looked at Kingston who was in front of him. Dun, said with a somewhat erratic voice: "I feel that the parks I went for an outing last time are bigger than this one."
"You remember correctly, the national population of this country is less than 90,000." Tommy Hawke said: "But this is the only official country we have found that is willing to communicate with our culture and at a low cost. If we don’t choose here, we can only go to Africa.”
The airport is right next to Kingston, and the capital of St. Vincent and Grenada is directly in front of the four people, like a small town surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea. The town is an English-style building with red bricks and white stones. Buildings, fishing boats and cargo ships floating on the blue sea.
This white city or town, surrounded by lush forests, looks like a pearl left behind by the sea from a distance.
"Excuse me, is this Miss Otilia Farrell, Mr. Tommy Hawke, Mr. Dennis Hobbs, Mr. Pam Marvell?" A black man about twenty-six or seventeen years old At this time, the woman came from the parking lot in the distance and asked in standard fluent English.
Otilia nodded, stretched out her hand to the other party, and responded kindly with a smile: "Hello, I am Otilia Farrell, the instructor of the CSLS project at Lincoln High School in Warwick, USA."
"I am Susan Ryan, the principal of Thomas Saunders Middle School and the chief education officer of Kingston." The black woman named Susan smiled and shook hands with Otilia, introducing herself: "Before we passed Phone, Miss Farrell."
"Hello, Ms. Susan Ryan, Tommy Hawke, the initiator of the CSLS program." Tommy Hawke introduced himself to the other party.
"I am very happy to see that students from other countries are willing to come to St. Vincent for exchange and study. This plan is very good, Mr. Tommy Hawke." Susan shook hands with Tommy.
After shaking hands with the four people and introducing them to each other, Susan took the four of them to the parking lot. There were only a few old-fashioned British cars or American cars parked in the empty parking lot. Susan opened a bright blue old-fashioned JEEP car, Signal four people to get on the bus.
"This country has just been independent for three years, and many people are still not used to it, so the development is a bit slow. In addition, when it became independent, the British vacated many positions that the locals could not touch before. They left without any guidance. We can only do it ourselves. I fumbled to start my work. For example, I was still studying in the UK three years ago, and was suddenly called back to become the principal of the only middle school in the country, the chief education officer of the city and the teacher of many courses. In fact, I am more I like to study, but there is nothing I can do, the country needs us, and there are less than 30 people who have studied abroad in this country, and there are less than 30 people who have studied in college." Susan started the car while introducing the situation of the country.
"Ms. Ryan, how many students are there in Thomas Sanders Middle School?" Tommy Hawke didn't care about the country, so he asked the school directly.
"Write it down in your notebook, Dennis." Tommy whispered to Dennis while sitting in the back seat, and then continued to ask: "What sports are the students in your school good at?"
"Cricket and English cricket are very popular in the Caribbean, as well as athletics, such as sprinting and middle-distance running. You American students can compete with them." Susan said to Tommy Hawke with a smile: " Due to the venue and the current situation, the school currently has no way to encourage students to play other sports with complicated rules.”
Tommy continued to whisper to Dennis who was writing hard: "OK, write it down, Dennis, don't include these competitive sports in the summer camp activities, and replace them with other ones, such as table tennis, fencing, etc."
Otilia, who was sitting in the co-pilot and heard Tommy talking, turned her head, gave Tommy a dissatisfied frown, and reminded in a low voice: "Tommy? Your words are very rude."
Tommy Hawk made an apologetic expression, and continued to ask: "Excuse me, are chess activities popular here? Principal Ryan?"
"There is a serious shortage of teachers here, so of course there is no time to cultivate other interests." Susan said with a smile as if she didn't hear Tommy and Dennis whispering in the back seat.
"In addition to the chess, checkers, flying chess and other games that American students are good at, we can ensure that they can get good rankings." Tommy Hawke reminded Dennis with bright eyes.
"However, the country strives to provide the best resources to schools, because we know that knowledge and young people can make this country better. We now provide clean and tidy campuses, school uniforms for children, and clean drinking water... Here, then It’s our campus, if it’s not for showing respect, you can actually reach the school from the airport by walking for fifteen minutes.” Susan Ryan turned her head to the side and gestured to several people for the building in front of her left.
Several people in the car followed the prestige, and a three-story building was extremely conspicuous among the single-story buildings.
Parking the car on the side of the road, Susan took a few people into this middle school. Not to mention the comparison with Lincoln High School, the environment here is even smaller than the Sinclair Elementary School where Tommy's aunt Melonie works. .
A simple and leveled piece of land is the playground, a row of bungalows is the principal's office, and all other classrooms and activity rooms are concentrated in the three-story building.
At this time, a group of black high school students with happy faces were happily playing a cricket match on the dusty sports field. Seeing the few white people who appeared at this time, they all showed surprised expressions and stopped their movements. , but did not approach the crowd rudely, but stood in place, responding to several people with polite smiles.
Susan Ryan accompanied Ottilia to continue walking towards her office, but the three of Tommy stayed where they were and observed the middle school.
"I don't think anyone wants to go to a place like this for summer camp, Tommy, this place is terrible." Pam said holding the camera that hadn't been used once since landing.
Tommy Hawke took a deep breath: "Those paying high school students need glossy information on paper. In order to be admitted to a prestigious school and a dazzling resume, they must accept this reality. I guarantee that the entire American university has not heard of it. Have been to this country, don't know how bad this country's high schools are, so just stick to the plan, Dennis, go to this village...go to the capital of this country to find the best hotels and find out the best deals you can get if you stay in a group Price, Pam, take some beautiful photos of this country to use as promotional materials, I will go to the campus here to check the chess and sports equipment that need to be prepared, and after counting, I will call back to Lincoln High School to see if it can be free Borrow a period of time and speed up, we only have two days here, and we need to go back and do a lot of preparation work after knowing about it."
"America's news has always said that armed riots often occur in black countries. Are you sure it won't happen here?" Dennis looked at this seemingly peaceful mini-city filled with black people, swallowed, and said nervously: "Honestly. Said it was the first time I appeared in a place with so many black people, and it didn't feel good to be surrounded by so many black people."
Tommy nodded: "Of course, I guarantee that it is safe here. The crime rate in St. Vincent is many times lower than that of the former suzerain, Britain. This is not Africa with famine, nor the United States with poor security. This country has no army and is the most powerful country in the world." Our armed force is 170 policemen, and 200 reserve militiamen who can only be dispatched when the country encounters a major crisis. Let’s put it this way, if our summer camp takes place, we only need to bring weapons and ammunition from any gun shop in the United States to St. Can easily take over the country."
(end of this chapter)