Chapter 108: Speech (1)
"It's under the control of UNDP, but not under our department, I'm mainly responsible for the distribution of colonial supplies for the two systems of Skadi and Igir, Cadmus is a mineral planet, the environment is harsh, and it's not a real colonization planet, what, Joanna, why did you mention this?" Vivien wondered.
"Nothing...... I'll talk to you later. Joanna really didn't know how to help her brother Steven.
"So we're both here as alumni this time, aren't we?" Vivien laughed with two deep dimples.
"No, I'm a parent." Joanna turned and pushed Johnny, who had been standing behind her and listening honestly, to the front.
"My son, Jonny. Kent, a freshman in high school this year, this is your Aunt Vivian. ”
"Hello Aunt Li." Jonny had already discovered Vivien's half-blooded bloodline.
"No, I said what's wrong with you?" Vivien looked at Joanna in a panic, making the mother and son very strange.
"My sons are so old, huh?" Vivien, who was a little fat, said with a look of disbelief, amusing Joanna.
Apparently an old pistachio-type classmate, Jonny politely smiled at Vivian, who was looking at him intently.
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The interior of the multi-purpose sports center has been changed for the Homecoming Opening Ceremony, with only a few rows of grandstand along the highest part of the exterior wall, and dense terraced seats extended through the modular structure of the stadium design.
The oval-shaped stands surround a basketball court-sized area in the center, with a large holographic projection in the center in front of the podium, reminiscent of Joni's boxing matches.
The scheduled time is approaching, and nearly 10,000 additional seats have been filled with students, parents, alumni and guests attending Newton High School's Homecoming Festival today. The shading layer of the dome in the center of the function gradually changes until it is adjusted to gray and white, completely blocking out the white light of the Micah.
In the entire venue, in addition to the green glow of the emergency panels at each exit, there is only the milky white glow from the floor in the center of the venue, which naturally focuses all the focus of the venue.
Punctual time has arrived, the melodious Newton High School theme song "Newton Welcomes the Future" echoed in the venue, as an old man who was close to the age of sixtieth walked to the center podium, the dazzling white light of the luminous floor quietly dimmed, and the holographic projection was turned on at the same time as the old man arrived at the podium and stood still.
Above his head, a huge image magnifies his full view tenfold, allowing the speaker's facial expressions and movements to be clearly seen from every angle in the venue.
The old man took out the data glasses from his pocket unhurriedly and put them on, and calmly scanned the audience with his eyes, and then he made a gesture with his hand, and the music that was playing stopped abruptly, and the venue suddenly quieted down.
"Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters who are still studying in Newton or have been gone for a while, today is a day for us to meet, know and be together, and welcome home!" The old man was dressed in the traditional teacher's uniform of Newton High School, his half-bald head was shining, and he had a bright smile on his face, patiently waiting for the thunderous applause of the audience to end.
Jonny knows Benjamin. Nestan, the principal of Newton High School, had seen some of his photographs in the school building and library Newton Archives, but this was the first time he had seen a real person.
According to publicly available records, Benjamin has been based in Newton since he started working, and in his early years he was an excellent teacher of interracial cognition, with exceptional qualifications, and maintained a certain degree of academic authority in racial cognition and humanities history.
He has been the principal of Newton High School for more than ten years.
"In this past year, we have a lot of traditional spirit to carry forward, many new ideas to change, and many excellent ideas to deserve attention......
“…… Newton, as a well-known university established in Wenzhijian City, has been at the forefront of the education front for generations......"
“…… The blood of generations of outstanding faculty and staff rotates in our vast teaching structure, and as a successor who carries countless dreams and passions, I think about many ......"
"The development of mankind is inseparable from each of our students, from unfamiliar contact, hard exchanges, and the collision of their respective civilizations, which is the Newton people who use what they know and learn to achieve ......."
Benjamin. Nestan spoke eloquently from the podium, his speech seemed to be decent in Jonny's eyes, in his opinion, it was not easy for an elderly man who was close to his sixties to make such a speech that kept pace with the times, but Vivien, who was sitting next to Joanna. Li kept frowning during the principal's speech.
"This is Alicia. Fisher's tone ...... "Vivien listened for a long time, and finally confirmed in a low voice.
"I really didn't expect that after so many years, old Nestan would still rub on the glory of 'Newton's light', and this scene is exactly the same as it was back then......" she complained to Joanna, and Jonny looked at her mother curiously, and found that she also showed a smile of approval on her face.
"I swear he must have read the speech behind the data glasses, you see him stammering, maybe it's the first time he's seen it." Vivien analyzed.
The position of good women in society is still not optimistic, and Jonny thinks that Alicia. Fisher-Price, a woman who dedicates herself to her career, what she gets is what she really wants? God knows.
Jonny doesn't care about the fate of Vice Principal Fisher, who has nothing to do with him, but he can hear a hint of sacrifice and seeking from the words of his mother's old classmates. And judging from the incomparably kind-hearted mother's attitude of not caring about herself, perhaps it does not deserve any sympathy.
"We have a special guest today." Benjamin. After his lengthy opening remarks, President Nestan announced what he thought was about to shake up every one of the alumni in the room.
"As we all know, we only receive alumni on Homecoming, and the opening speech, in previous years we will choose from a thick list of alumni, over the years, standing on this podium are mostly well-known industry elites and successful people, just in the past few years, we have invited Angelo. Olivier, Graham. Curry, Alfonso. Austin and other well-known figures from Wenzhi City attended, while the Minister of Agriculture of the Union, Charl. Sjaman was also a guest speaker at Newton's Homecoming...... "Principal Nestan's smug expression can be seen on the hologram.