Chapter 7: The Perfect Place

When Tommy Hawke registers the amount of equipment he needs to prepare, he realizes that Pam has not yet returned to school.

Although Dennis had already determined that St. Vincent was indeed safe and secure when he went to inquire about the price of the hotel, because the blacks here did not gather and roam the streets like American, and their clothes were clean and tidy, and every time they opened their mouths to communicate with Dennis, they would add extremely polite honorifics, which was more like a gentleman than Dennis, a white man.

The two walked along the only main road in the town to enjoy the scenery, and by the way, they looked for Pam, who was taking a scenic photo, and only five minutes after walking, Tommy Hawke saw Pam and a white girl with long red and brown hair standing in front of a low stone wall overlooking the sea, tilting their heads to each other and posing with each other, while an elderly black man who was apparently riding a bicycle and was stopped by Pam to ask for help, holding a camera and pointing the camera at the two to take pictures.

"Click!" The black man pressed the shutter, then put down the camera, and smiled at the two: "Very good, do you need to change the look and get another one?" ”

With an excited red on his face, Pam looked at the girl across from him and asked, "Carly?" Can we take another one? ”

The girl smiled kindly: "Of course." ”

"I'll teach you that we can pose like this...... This Poss of a photo of friends is very popular in the United States. Pam seemed to be more excited than he had taken Adlar, and he was scrambling to pose in front of the girl.

The black man held up the camera, and his mouth kept opening his mouth to remind Pam to adjust his pose with the girl so that the photo would look prettier.

Tommy and Dennis looked at each other, and Dennis pursed his lips, "You know what?" I never imagined that Pam would be able to meet a lovely white girl in two hours in a country with an 85% black population. ”

"yes, I didn't expect that it would be so easy for those girls in our high school to pose for a photo with a guy like Pam who doesn't please girls." Tommy nodded.

The black man helped Pam and the girl finish taking another picture, and then carefully handed the camera back to Pam and thoughtfully reminded Pam that "there is only one photo studio here where you can develop photos, and if you walk along this road for about three minutes, you will see a corner with a sign in English around the corner." ”

After the girl left a string of cheerful and crisp laughs and said goodbye to Pam in a chic manner, Tommy and Dennis walked over, and Pam retracted his gaze as he looked at the direction of the girl's disappearance, and saw that the two were a little embarrassed, and explained: "It's not what you see now, guys, I'm looking for the staff of this government building, and I want to go in and take some convincing photos." ”

The black man, who was about to push his bicycle away, heard Pham's words and returned: "You want to go into the government building and take pictures?" ”

"Yes, sir, we have come from the United States and hope to hold a full-fledged summer camp with your high school, but it is not clear whether the government building and the governor's office are open to the public." Tommy spoke to the black man.

The black man blinked and looked at the three of them: "So just now Principal Susan Ryan called me to go to the school to sit down, and said how many young student leaders from the United States came?" Should it be you? Why don't I go in and make a phone call and ask her to come over and sit down in the governor's office? ”

"Sir, are you ...... Governor? Tommy looked at each other with Dennis and Pam when he saw the other man's demeanor, and then asked uncertainly.

Could this elderly black man pushing a bicycle be the Governor? The country is a member of the Commonwealth, and the supreme head is naturally the Queen of England, but the Queen does not run it herself, so the Governor appointed by her is the nominal leader of the country.

But even if the country is small, the governor is also the head of state and is unlikely to push a bicycle to help tourists take pictures.

"No, of course not, His Excellency the Governor is working in the Governor's office on the second floor." Blacks gave a negative answer.

Dennis asked tentatively, "So you're the postman here?" Mr? The postman in my house would ride a bicycle like this to distribute letters. ”

The black man smiled at the three of them very unavoidably: "It's more troublesome than the job of a postman, I am the prime minister of this country, Marduf Compton." ”

If the Governor General is only the nominal head of state in this country, then this old black man in his fifties at this time is the real real power figure in this country.

Dennis looked at the black man who claimed to be the prime minister, and then at Tommy Hawke next to him, and after switching his gaze several times in a row, he whispered: "Tommy, I think you put your face up and say that you are the head of this country, more credible than this black gentleman with a big belly who laughs, I can't imagine the picture of Ronald Reagan riding his bicycle around the city of Washington, taking pictures of young men and women and correcting their postures, and finally telling onlookers that he is the president of the United States." ”

"Wouldn't it be better to think of me as the black mayor of a small town in America?" St. Vincent's Prime Minister Marduf Compton smiled happily: "I know that the United States is big, the territory is vast, and this country may be smaller than many American cities, so you don't need to be the head of state, you can be the mayor of the town, welcome to our town, the young student leaders from the United States." ”

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"That Ms. Ryan and Miss Farrell share a double room, and the three of us live in a double room? A room is only ten dollars a night, Tommy, ten dollars, you won't open an extra room, and now fucking Pam is lying on top of me like a koala! Denis lay down on his own single bed and said in despair, "He even put his hand on my chest...... And then that damn hand was doing something else that I didn't want to describe. ”

Pam was wearing a set of pajamas and pajamas with Popeye prints, and he was leaning sideways and pressing his legs against Dennis's body, and his hands were on Dennis's body, sleeping soundly.

"The round-trip airfare has already cost us nearly half of the money, and we have half of the money left to make flyers, rent space for information sessions and so on, and try to be patient until we actually make money, Dennis." Tommy Hawk put his hands behind his head, looked at the ceiling, and changed the subject with a smile: "Have you noticed that it seems that this place is a perfect fit for our imagination, the black people here are very friendly, and the head of state is also approachable, it is simply the perfect place, I have a hunch that we can make money." ”

"That's true, to be honest, when the governor of this country took a picture with me in a rock gesturing gesture, he was no longer as majestic in my mind as the school worker at Lincoln High School, because I asked the school worker to make that gesture before, and he refused, what a bastard, I like the governor here, the prime minister, at least very affable, already the head of state, and can be approachable, while the school worker of our school has a stinky face all day long, proud like those French emperors who are about to go to the guillotine." Dennis, who couldn't bear it anymore, brushed Pam away and replied:

"Also, the Governor and the Prime Minister of this country call me, Dennis Herbs, a youth student leader from Lincoln High School in Warwick, Rhode Island...... I was a little embarrassed to hear this title myself, but they were very serious, and seeing their serious expressions, for a moment I really thought that I was one of those elite American high school students, not the bottom white trash. ”

"Carly......" Pam said in a daze, as she was woken up by Dennis's movements, and said in a bit of confusion that Carly was the girl who took the picture with Pam and the daughter of a white engineer at the sugar factory of the Burton Sugar Company in the United States, and one of the students at the only high school in the country.

"Speaking of which, I seem to understand that this country is so friendly to us from the United States, strictly speaking, the United States helped them break free from British colonial rule, and also invested in sugar factories and other industries here to increase employment." Tommy thought for a moment and said, "They still have a sense of gratitude to the United States, as it should be." ”

"I'm now an honorary citizen of this country, an American white trash, actually in another...... The Negro nation was received as a young student leader in the United States, and then became an honorary citizen by the Governor and Prime Minister, you know, meaning that I could stay here for as long as I wanted. Dennis then spoke of the modest welcome dinner, where the Governor had conferred on the four men the title of Honorary Citizen of St. Vincent.

Tommy Hawke's face was not sleepy, but excited: "Dennis, the United States and here are visa-free, you can live here for a long time without being an honorary citizen, what attracted me was not the honorary citizenship title, but the idea that Governor Alan Lewis and Prime Minister Marduf Compton talked to us casually, he said that a simulated government experience could be arranged in the summer camp, so that American high school students attending the summer camp can accept the Governor's letter of appointment and try to maintain the daily work of a country, This is definitely a genius and enlightened idea, this town is small, but it is a real country, really experience how the state institutions work, this is what student leaders should do, just this one, I guarantee that many high school students can not refuse, and even in the future, there will be American high school students willing to come here to participate in the summer summit, the Prime Minister and the Governor are definitely not ordinary colonial blacks, they are black people with British higher education, otherwise it would not have been possible to think of this to increase the attractiveness of this country, They know how to do business, as long as they launch this program, even if they share half of the summer camp revenue, I am willing, because I can raise the price, any top college summer camp can't provide this kind of business, they can't let high school students walk into the White House and handle the daily life of the country like a president, but our summer summit can! ”

"You know, Tommy, I don't care about anything else, I just want to say that if I really simulate government affairs, I hope that I can be the chief judge of this country, and then help this country make a law as soon as possible." Dennis was silent for a moment, then spoke.

Tommy asked, "I don't think it's necessary, because it's impeccable, the perfect place for a summer summit." ”

Dennis roared angrily, "I think it's necessary to add a law, that is, it is strictly forbidden for two men to sleep in a single bed in this country!" Pam, take your hand away, it's swollen, I swear to God......"