Friday is the day of orientation for new boarding students (Orientation Day for boarders). The orientation day of School A is like a grand festival, and the national flag of a country is planted every ten meters on both sides of the main road of the campus.

Several parking lots on the campus were full of all kinds of cars, and mothers and fathers with their children gathered from all sides of the campus to the main building of the school, making the originally empty and spacious central lawn in front of the main campus suddenly bustling.

Xia Xiaoyan rushed over from the hotel not far from the school early in the morning to accompany her son to participate in today's activities, and the two made an appointment to meet in front of the main building.

Among the many parents and children, they are bent on finding Chinese freshmen and parents as soon as possible, as long as they see Asian faces, they have a feeling of meeting their hometowns and acquaintances, and in most cases, the other party is not from South Korea, Japan, or even Thailand, even Chinese, most of them came to the United States three generations ago, a ABC that Chinese can't say at night (American Born Chinese Chinese Americans growing up in the United States), commonly known as "banana people".

It can be seen that children leave home to go to boarding high school independently, which is also a big deal for American families, and most families are sent to send their children to school, in addition to parents, younger brothers, sisters, grandfathers, grandmothers, and more exaggerated will bring their parents' friends.

When Chenchen saw the foreign children who were sent to school by a large group of adults, he couldn't help but joke with his mother: "Look, where is this to go to school, it's just to fight wolves." ”

Xia Xiaoyan said thoughtfully: "Look, I said it, American parents also attach great importance to their children's education. Otherwise, where would the United States have so many high-tech elites, financial elites, and Nobel Prize winners, so ......"

Chenchen reluctantly interrupted his mother's words and said, "Mom, how can you talk about education in everything, I can guess that your next sentence must be to let me study hard and win glory for Chinese children." ”

Xia Xiaoyan smiled and said, "Good son, why do you know me so well?" The two chatted as they walked towards the main building.

The school's main building is an old Rococo building built in the 18th century and originally a private residence, which was included in the 1979 Register of American Historic Buildings.

Today, the building welcomes another class of new students in the more than 200 years since the establishment of the school.

Directly above the two heavy carved wooden doors across from the building hangs a banner with white letters on a blue background that reads "Welcome to A Academy."

Pushing open the heavy wooden door, a refreshing coolness greeted you, isolating the heat outside. This is an extremely spacious round hall, a luxurious crystal chandelier hangs from the ceiling of the 50-foot high, in the center of the light marble floor, is a complex six-pointed star pattern made of various colored marbles, and on the dark red carved cherry wood walls, hanging several huge oil paintings with heavy gold lacquer carved wooden frames, in it, it is like entering a magnificent palace, and the luxury reveals solemnity and solemnity.

The spacious hall was crowded, and behind several sign-in tables stood the school's teachers who were in charge of welcoming new students, as well as representatives of senior students who came to volunteer. They are meticulously and patiently helping new students sign in and register, receive ID cards, dormitory access cards, house keys, etc. Both the teachers and the students showed great sincerity and enthusiasm, tirelessly answering all kinds of quirky and even funny questions raised by the new students and parents, and at the same time, patiently and meticulously explaining to them the school schedule for the first few days of school.

In addition to the local American students, you can see a lot of children and parents of different colors, races, and dresses, and obviously, they are from other countries around the world.

Jiang Ruichen and his mother Xia Xiaoyan entered the hall, he reported his surname to the senior senior who came over, and the senior immediately found Chenchen from the table on the table, and took out two folders of different colors, handed them to Chenchen and his mother respectively, and then told them that an hour later, the child and the parents were going to participate in a consultation activity, and informed them of the afternoon and evening activity arrangements.

Chenchen opened the clip and saw a school magazine for August with the fragrance of ink, which was obviously freshly baked. The school magazine is not thick, but it is beautifully printed and illustrated.

When the center page of the school magazine was unfolded, it turned out to be a detailed map of the school, on which all the famous buildings of the school were clearly marked and marked in detail, and there was a text with arrows circled in blue next to the map, which was an interesting introduction or comment on the building.

For example, "Legend has it that there was a swimming pool at the top of the theater, but it was abandoned 150 years ago. ”

"Is there a secret passage in the gymnasium that leads to the wizarding world? This has been a long-standing secret of School A. ”

Xia Xiaoyan took out a school manual from her clip, and turned the first page to see the principal's speech, and such a sentence jumped into her eyes: "I sincerely hope that each of you can pay enough attention to what kind of person you will become, to exceed the expectations of society, and to achieve your highest self-......" Xiaoyan felt that these words were speaking her heart, and she was very satisfied. Then scroll down, and then it is divided into: school rules, academics, graduation requirements, college guidance, contact information, etc., Xiaoyan inserted it back into the clip, and decided to take a closer look after returning to the hotel.