642. Fishermen's travel activities
Preston College, if not familiar with English, may hear as Princeton, a world-renowned private research university and one of the eight Ivy League schools.
However, this is not the case, Preston College here is just a very ordinary college in St. John's, in fact, the whole province of Newfoundland, except for Memorial University of Newfoundland, all other schools are terrible......
Qin Shiou felt that these two people might be a little troublesome, and it was related to the academic system of Canadian universities, so we had to introduce the vacation situation of Canadian universities first.
For undergraduate students in Canadian universities, the summer vacation usually has a total of 4 months of vacations of 5, 6, 7, and 8, and the summer vacation for college students is very long.
During this vacation, students have many options, they can choose to take more courses during the summer vacation and strive for early graduation; You can carry out study trips and travel activities to surrounding cities to increase your horizons; You can also choose to take a vacation or work part-time.
So it seems that it is common for college students to work in June, but there is a premise, that is, undergraduate universities, and this is not the case at junior colleges such as Preston College.
For vocational schools, June is a very important time, because they usually start classes in January, May, and September.
September is the big class, all universities will start all majors, regardless of undergraduate or junior college, and January is the small class, and some majors will start at this time. There are fewer classes in May, but they are often aimed at international students, that is, students like Wang Lei and Yao Lili, who should be in school in June and have no time to work.
Now that the two of them have time to come out to work, Qin Shiou judged that they were repeating international students.
What is a repeating student? This is a special name, and as the name suggests, it is an international student who has left a grade. However, this kind of student is different from the repeater students in China, they are transfer repeaters.
As everyone knows. At present, the enrollment of domestic universities is expanding greatly, and as long as students with some ability can be admitted to an undergraduate school. At this time, those who study abroad are either very good at academics and are admitted to foreign schools, or their families want them to go abroad to study in a more awesome university.
If you come to St. John's to study, you basically come to Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Memorial University of Newfoundland is the only comprehensive public university in the province of Newfoundland, one of Canada's top universities and a world-renowned university.
Like other schools in North America, Memorial University of Newfoundland is easier to get into, but it is difficult to get out, it is not so easy to graduate, it has strict academic requirements for students, and it is different from American universities. If its students fail a single subject during the school period, they will have to retake it in the summer vacation and pass the guò before they can take classes for the next semester.
If you don't pass the summer recourse, you have to keep doing it.
In this way, some international students will choose to drop out of school when they see that they have failed too many courses or feel that they cannot pass the retake. However, domestic families send their children to study abroad, often with great momentum, and the family has worked hard to send their children out of school, and it is too embarrassing to be eliminated and go home without getting a graduation certificate.
Such students tend to end their exams in May each year. Seeing that there is no hope of promotion, I transfer to some ordinary undergraduate or junior college that is easier to graduate from, and I have to go home with a graduation certificate, right?
In this way, such as Wang Lei and Yao Lili. It should be transferred to a junior college, so they don't need to install the normal academic system of the junior college to go to school in June, but can prepare for the official opening of the school in September.
Really. After chatting, Qin Shiou asked about their studies, and the two were embarrassed to admit it. They came to Memorial University of Newfoundland for a year, but they failed their majors. And it was difficult to get through, so I simply went to transfer to Preston College behind my family's back.
Because they felt sorry for their family, the two were embarrassed to ask their families for more money, so they wanted to take advantage of the summer vacation to work and earn some money.
The first choice of St. John's to work was the fishing ground, and when they heard that there was a very powerful Chinese fisherman on Farewell Island, they thought of him for help.
Qin Shiou thought about it, there is a lot of work in the fishing ground in summer, and these two people will definitely not be able to work at sea, so let them take care of the grass in the fishing ground, help mow the lawn, clean up the vegetable garden and orchard. Originally, he had to hire someone to do these jobs, so he simply invited these two people.
But Qin Shiou put the ugly words in front: "The work in the fishing farm is not easy to do, I will give you 800 Canadian dollars a week, but if you can't do it, then I can only fire you." ”
After getting Qin Shiou's promise, Wang Lei nodded vigorously and said: "Direction, Brother Qin, both of us are from worker families and can endure hardships, just do what you tell us, we will definitely work hard for you." ”
Qin Shiou saw that the two were holding their luggage, so he asked Sha Ke to clean up the two fisherman's apartments, but Wang Lei said that one would do, and the two of them were lovers.
After settling the two of them, Qin Shiou gave them a small vacation to adapt, they don't have to work today and tomorrow but count their wages, let them wander around the fishing ground and familiarize themselves with the surrounding environment, so that they can get twice the result with half the effort in the future.
After dealing with the affairs of Wang Lei and Yao Lili, Qin Shiou dragged the recliner to the shade of the tree to enjoy the sea breeze in early summer.
As a result, there are more things today, and he is destined to not be able to blow the sea breeze leisurely.
Shortly after he sat down, a phone call came, an unfamiliar number, from Ottawa.
Qin Shiou answered suspiciously, and asked, "Qin Shiou of the Great Qin Fishing Ground, hello, who is it?" If you're going to sell something, it's better to hang up, I don't lack anything at home. ”
A gentle female voice sounded: "Hello, Mr. Qin, may I ask if you participated in the St. John's fishermen's protest march last month?" ”
Hearing this, Qin Shiou muttered in his heart, Damn, isn't it so unlucky, the Canadian government is still playing the trick of settling accounts after the autumn? But there was nothing terrible about it, and he graciously admitted it.
When he confirmed, he said on the other side of the phone: "I'm Julia Joante, the head of external relations at the Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans, and that's Mr. Qin, since you held the protest, we have been trying to find a way to deal with your confusion and ease the relationship between the fishermen." For this reason, we have decided to hold a short educational trip at the end of June, do you have time to participate? ”
Qin Shiou understood that this was the protest that had worked, and the Ministry of Fisheries probably wanted to hold a social activity or something like that, bringing together the owners of traditional fishing grounds and holiday fishing grounds to eat and drink, hello and me.
Thinking like this, Qin Shiou was not satisfied, this world is as black as a crow, but the Canadian government has won the true inheritance of the leading class of my Celestial Empire, and the ability of the mud is good.
He didn't want to accept such an outcome, so he simply refused, saying that he didn't have time.
After hanging up the phone, he lay down for about half an hour, and just after he was dazed, the phone rang again.
Qin Shiou frowned and looked at the number, it was still from Ottawa, so he answered the phone angrily and said, "I said I won't participate, OK?" I'm in a hurry, I'm busy, and I have a lot of work on my fishing farm! (To be continued......)