Of course, Western etiquette classes are not only about table manners, but also about how to talk and behave, how to dress, and how to respect each other's religious customs.

As for the specific formulation of diplomatic rhetoric and written representations, it is even more complicated, and two more courses have to be held, which are not for freshmen and sophomores to consider.

Therefore, the opportunity to eat steak or other high-end Western food is only three classes a week.

After the initial excitement, the students all felt that they could still intensify their studies. Helplessly, the school's teaching progress and reimbursement funds are limited, so I can only endure it.

In good conscience, the table manners class at the Foreign Affairs University has been arranged in such detail that it is almost a clever name for everyone to eat all the delicacies of various countries.

Not only do you have to eat steak, salmon, and snails, but you also have to tell the pasta in detail whether it is Pasta, Spaghetti or Macaroni, and you have to teach each of them again.

Even if you've learned everything, you can review it again.

Business skills are all about excellence.

However, while the teaching funds are being spent like a stream, the teachers' requirements are also very strict, and it is necessary to ensure that the teaching results are accounted for when the department inspects the work in the future.

So in just half a month, these students, who were still three or five points of earthy turtles, knew how to drink soup with shallow plates instead of large bowls-

And you can't pour the plate into your mouth, you have to take a stainless steel spoon and scoop it up and drink. When drinking, you can't look down at the plate, you can't make a simmering sound, and you can't make the sound of a spoon hitting the plate.

Anyway, borscht is not worth much, so if you can't learn it, you can continue to practice it until you are full of water.

With the end of the one-month military training and the half-month preliminary etiquette training, the National Day holiday has finally arrived.

The run-in of military training is the easiest way to improve the relationship between classmates.

Therefore, the freshman and sophomore students also crossed the grade and generally mingled.

Many people start to think about where to go during the holidays a few days in advance.

In 78, it was still a single holiday, and the National Day was nothing more than an extra day, a total of two days off, and it was impossible to go far away. However, everyone is accustomed to this level of hard work, so they don't feel that there is a problem in the slightest.

In the same bedroom as Gu Xiao, there were three other boys, namely Lu Jianjun, who was from Hujiang and a little bourgeoisie; Han Peng, who once studied at Jinling Foreign Chinese Middle School; and Huang Xun, a native of Mingzhou who was considered a hometown of Wuyue.

When he was a freshman, Lu Jianjun looked at the other three classmates in the dormitory and still had a bit of a "countryman" eye, so he was the most unsociable.

However, since the Western food etiquette class, seeing that Gu Biao's petty bourgeois etiquette is more standard than him, Lu Jianjun's three views were deeply shocked, and he gradually accepted the setting of "outsiders are not all countrymen", and began to be close to Gu Biao.

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The day before the National Day holiday, Lu Jianjun took the initiative to suggest after class: "Xiao Gu, go to Xiangshan Park tomorrow to play." Aren't you more familiar with Xiaoye, make an appointment with a girl's dormitory and take a cable car to see the maple leaves. ”

Except for the 78-level juniors and sisters who didn't dare to call him Xiao Gu, almost all the students of the same level of 77 now call him Xiao Gu.

It's not that this is not about seniority, and the students of the Foreign Affairs University have not been so idle - but that Gu Biao is indeed too young, and he is only 16 years old so far. If you are one year old, it will take more than 3 months.

Regarding Lu Jianjun's proposal, Gu Biao was not very optimistic, and he said cautiously: "I heard that the Xiangshan cable car has not been completed yet? Why are you in such a hurry." ”

Gu Biao is not a research addict, so he doesn't know that the cable car in Xiangshan Park in history was not officially opened to the public until the Spring Festival in 82, three years later.

He only read from the public information in the newspaper: the construction of the project began in May this year. Now, except for the last third of the road section on the main peak, the incense burner peak, which is not completed, the slower slope below has been built.

After all, the infrastructure on Xiangshan is good, and the cable car is not a difficult project.

However, the main reason for the delay in putting it into commercial use was that the civil power supply in the capital was not stable at that time.

In fact, the stability of power supply has not been completely solved until the early 90s - Luo Fatzi, who later mixed CCTV and "got", mentioned in a certain year's "Logical Thinking" New Year's Eve speech that when he first came to Beijing Broadcasting Institute to study, he once went to see the red leaves of Xiangshan.

As a result, the cable car was suspended in mid-air for a whole afternoon, making him think about the philosophical question of the meaning of life in the air, and repented a lot.

However, Lu Jianjun still persuaded unrelentingly: "Xiao Gu, you don't understand this." The Xiangshan cable car is not completed in the whole line, but I asked the relationship, as long as it is not on the incense burner peak, the following section of the road can already be tested, but the power supply is unstable, and it cannot be operated. I have a friend, and I can

How romantic it is to see the maple leaves this season, even if it really hits a power outage, it is nothing more than not moving in the air, and it will not fall, what is the danger? ”

In Lu Jianjun's mind, he didn't have the slightest sense of danger, but thought that this was a romantic opportunity to enhance his relationship with a girl.

This is also due to his confidence in the infrastructure of the capital - after all, it is the capital of a country and the best district. Even in 78 years, the power supply failure in the capital was rarely repaired in 6 hours.

However, this kind of naïve idea, in Gu Biao's eyes, can only shake his head.

Everyone has been classmates for a semester, and some older, precocious boys and girls do have a tendency to talk to each other.

After all, the 77th and 78th grade students have a large backlog of advanced age, and they can't let people fall in love when they are in their 20s, right?

This is training diplomats, and not the KGB training crows and swallows.

And Gu Biao also knew that Lu Jianjun had fallen in love with a girl named Ma Hui in Ye Kun's bedroom, and he didn't dare to face it directly, so he looked for various opportunities to be passive, and even asked Gu Biao to come forward and ask the other party to ask the other party to go out in the whole bedroom.

That Ma Hui is the most unrestrained Westernized girl in Gu Wei's level, and she is very proud of her petty bourgeoisie, and after entering the Foreign Affairs Academy, she just has a high-sounding excuse to learn Western-style makeup and dye her hair, which is called a high-profile.

If it were put aside for 30 years, this kind of publicity would definitely be despised as the funeral family killing Matt, but at that time it was definitely rare and avant-garde. It's just that Lu Jianjun likes the taste of flaming red lips the most, and it can be regarded as Wang Ba's staring at mung beans to see the right eye.

In the face of such a stubborn Lu Jianjun, Gu Biao is trying to find a way not to offend people and to refrain from this unreliable invitation.

It's a pity that the other party came prepared, and he couldn't find an excuse for a while.

Fortunately, at this moment, Han Ting, the teacher in charge of the practice mouth, walked into the classroom and announced a decision, which happened to relieve Gu Biao.

Han Ting has an official position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and is not considered a full-fledged teacher here at the Foreign Affairs University. However, I occasionally come here to help students coordinate some internship arrangements. So when everyone saw her, they still called her Teacher Han one by one.

Han Ting was in a hurry, rushed to the podium in three steps and two steps, and tidied up the hem of her skirt before speaking:

"Sit down, everyone, I announce a temporary holiday internship task - tomorrow's National Day, everyone will gather on time at 7 o'clock in the morning, and we will lead a team to TAM Square to watch the ceremony and watch the National Day parade. ”

Lu Jianjun couldn't help but cry out when he heard this, so he could only temporarily put aside his plan to go to Xiangshan to wait for the opportunity to take a sister.

Most of the other students in the class didn't react so strongly, but some were tired and felt that they had to take a day off, and what was there to see about the National Day Parade.

At that time, the National Day celebration in the capital was mainly divided into two situations, one was that the founding year of the People's Republic of China was every five and ten, and there would be a grand military parade. For example, this is the case with next year's 79, and in the future, the famous 84.

But if there is no military parade, it does not mean that there will be no mass activities. The leaders of the central government will still go to TAM to meet the masses on the morning of the National Day.

People from all walks of life in the capital will also form a team to assemble and parade for review. Even the military will send people, but it is not as formal as the parade.

Han Ting glanced at it and noticed everyone's emotions, so she solemnly explained: "Please pay attention to it! Although this is a temporary decision, it must also be completed as a political task, not for you to enjoy the mountains and rivers and watch the excitement!"

The ministry has specially secured a place for you to watch the ceremony in the front row tomorrow in front of the TAM, and has also allowed you to distribute binoculars. Tomorrow, the chief of directors will invite many dignitaries, envoys, and representatives of fraternal countries to climb the building together.

This is a good opportunity for you, and you must seize it - there will be more moves in the ministry recently, the Vietnamese have threatened Cambodia several times recently, and the task of the ministry to win over international public opinion in the camp is very heavy.

Maybe at the end of the year, you'll have the opportunity to do an internship in the field. Taking the opportunity to memorize the faces of those foreign leaders first is beneficial for subsequent internships. ”

As soon as Han Ting explained this, the emotions of all the classmates were lifted, and even Lu Jianjun couldn't care about women.

For diplomats, professional courses and skills are of course important, but some usual accumulation is equally important.

One of the most obvious is to recognize people – a challenge for students with low emotional intelligence and who are not good at making friends.

As a diplomat, one of the skills of being a diplomat is to memorize at least a few thousand faces, match them to their names, and even remember the hobbies and taboos of important people.

At various large-scale international summits, there are thousands of people in a cocktail hall, and you have to call out everyone immediately when you see it, and then go over to greet you like an old friend, and you can't make a taboo.

This kind of ability can't be taught in class, after all, it violates the physiological structure of the human brain - Oxford University anthropologist Robin Dunbar has studied that the upper limit of the normal human brain to maintain familiar social relationships is only 150 people.

So be sure to do internships often, and do everything possible to attend such occasions before you have a job, and then observe them secretly.

And history will always prove that if you can remember the names and faces of thousands of people, correspond. Then whatever work you do in the future will always help you in your achievements.

Whether you are the president of the United States like George W. Bush, or you are selling skewers at the back door of Yangzhong like Shang Laosan.