Chapter Thirty-Seven: A Raccoon Dog
At the end of the year, people are at their busiest. Our college is just like universities all over the world. The last program before the winter vacation is the year-end party for international students. At this time, the outstanding students of the year are generally commended, and then there are theatrical performances and cold meals and dances by the students. It represents a summary of the year and an expectation for the coming New Year.
Jin Li is the president of the Chinese International Student Association. She started her annual routine again. The practice of the buffet is that students from each country bring out their own national food to share. Jin Li has been buying ingredients these days, looking for classmates who can cook to design dishes for the buffet. I watched her go in and out.
The market is early, and the holidays are earlier than other units, and I am the most idle one after the exam.
Discuss with Andrei his ticket home and return, he has to leave on the 24th and return on the 2nd. As soon as I saw the flight, it should be night when he arrived in Zurich, and he went back on the night of 24, is it too late. He said that he would not be able to come back until the New Year anyway, so it would be too late to go back!
Finally, at my insistence, he booked a round-trip ticket from the 23rd to the 3rd.
Returning to his floor from Andrei's dormitory, he was stopped by Jin Li. She asked me if I could do a solo dance at the party, and I smiled and declined.
- "I have old arms and legs, I haven't danced for a long time, and besides, doesn't Qiu Si know how to dance." Why don't you let Qiu Si jump,"
- "It was Qiu Si who asked me to come to you, and she said that the two of you danced Shebin (the popular Russian aerobics) together, and she thought your dancing skills were much better than hers. Jin Li said.
- "Solo dance, it's really not good, I haven't performed for many years, if I dance in a group, I can make up for it." β
Jin Li was a little worried, she told me that our school has the most Chinese students, and if the show can't be done, she feels very shameless. In general, the show sings a lot and dances less, especially for Chinese students, who danced in groups last year, do they still have to dance in groups this year? Besides, Jin Li felt that she was not very satisfied with the level of the group dance. She wants to be a little more brilliant this year, but the solo dance she said doesn't have a certain level, who dares to go there to show her eyes. I suggest adding a solo dance to the group dance so that the performers don't have too much pressure. Seeing Jin Li's pleading appearance, I promised her to discuss it with Qiu Si.
Qiu Si, like me, is a little difficult to dance solo. In the end, we decided to do a pas de deux. Jin Li was very happy to hear our decision and urged us to step up rehearsals.
There were only a few days of rehearsals, and Qiu Si and I cut corners to design dance moves. During the few days when we were rehearsing the dance, Daric and Andre would do the logistics for us, that is, prepare the food and wait for the two of us to come back and eat.
On this day, Qiu Si and I dragged our tired bodies back to the dormitory. Darik and Andre were seen chatting in the kitchen. Seeing us coming back, AndrΓ© called us over for dinner.
Qiusi and I sat at the dining table, and I asked Andrei: Why don't you eat? Daric said they both had eaten. Then ask me:
- "Linna, are you two really so tired from rehearsing, or are you lying to me and Andrei to cook for you?" β
- "What are these words?" How did we lie to you? I asked him angrily,
- "Qiu Si, you told me, Linna passed all the difficult movements. He also said that he could just jump and jump, and he didn't need to be too professional. Since it's an amateur, you two seem to be rehearsing very hard, I don't think it's necessary! β
- "I removed all the difficult movements just to ensure quality," I replied.
- "No matter how simple it is, you need to practice, if you don't believe it, you can just jump and try it!" Qiu Si replied to her boyfriend dissatisfied.
- "By the way, Andre can't return to China to catch the party, if you don't go back, why don't you perform anything every year, you are quite at ease!" I asked Daric dissatisfied.
- "If our academy had held a basketball game, I would have played, right, Andre"
Darik stood behind Andrei, who was sitting, patted Andrei on the shoulder with his hand and said to us.
Andrei smiled at him in agreement.
Qiu Si and I glanced at each other, and we ignored him.
I thought to myself that this Darik and Andre are the same dog!