Chapter 8: Unequal Transactions

Otilia took a few deep breaths, and slowly walked into the balcony standing on the second floor of the government building, Tommy Hawk, who was using a handheld video recorder to record the footage as material.

Tommy Hawke didn't notice Ottilia approaching, and was now recording a figure on the side of the street not far away, who was the commander of the country's most powerful armed forces.

The chief of the National Police, who is in charge of the country's 17 police stations, Colin John, who has the same name as Tommy's father.

A black elite who served in the British Army and trained at Scotland Yard, who won multiple medals, was listening to Dennis's Walkman with headphones on, standing on the road in front of the police station, swaying to a strong beat, but in the eyes of others who couldn't hear the music, like a convulsive fool.

It's hard to imagine that the security of this country is in the hands of such a guy who twists his body at high speed in front of Tommy, and seems to be throwing out the fat all over his body.

Standing on the balcony of the second floor of the National Police Station, Denis was surrounded by several black police officers in gray-blue police uniforms, as if he was asking Dennis what to do next.

Apparently Dennis is trying to be an experiencer, giving priority to the upcoming government simulation of their summer camp, temporarily serving as the country's police chief, and looking at his expression, he is very interested in this kind of thing.

Because Tommy heard a police officer report to Dennis that a sugar cane field in St. George's parish had been damaged, and the local police station hoped that Dennis could bring the rest of the police station to the local area to help and arrest the culprit, a full four wild boars, which had destroyed many sugar cane fields, and the local police station was a little short of manpower and equipment.

Dennis believes not to sacrifice in vain, not to allow yourself to be injured, and to be good at using advantages to fight the enemy.

So after thinking about it carefully, he gave a plan of action: find a way to find out where the US embassy is, and then prepare to drive the four wild boars to the embassy with people beating gongs and drums, and trap the wild boars in the embassy, so that the US embassy can ask the United States to send a battle-hardened Marine Corps to help catch the pigs in hand-to-hand combat on the grounds that the US embassy has been invaded.

The reason for hand-to-hand hunting is that Dennis thinks that after catching the wild boar alive, he will open a zoo by the way, and maybe the Marines who come from afar can visit the local zoo as tourists when they catch the pigs and rest, so that they can also earn some dollars from them and increase the country's income.

The policemen who heard his words all subconsciously wiped their faces hard, and two of them couldn't help but turn their heads to look in the direction of the government building, as if wondering, where did their own governor and prime minister find such American youth leaders? Accidentally fell into the sea and damaged your brain? Or a clownfish that swam into his brain along his ears? So make this young man look less like a leader, but more like a clown?

His subordinates are telling Dennis at this moment that there is no U.S. embassy here, and more than a dozen countries in the entire Caribbean country share a U.S. embassy in the Caribbean, headquartered in Barbados, and there is only one U.S. embassy in the Caribbean in the country, which has a liaison office in Kingston, and it is also in the government building.

After listening to Dennis's plan of action and comparing the two, Tommy felt that the security of the country should be better handed over to the dancing Director Colin, after all, Director Colin just likes to have convulsions with the music, and Dennis has a convulsion in his brain all the time.

"Tommy?" Otilia's voice rang out with some apprehension.

"Miss Farrell, what's going on?" Tommy Hawk followed the tone and turned to look at Otilia.

The beautiful teacher in front of her had an apologetic face, and at this time she had her hands behind her back, and judging from her standing posture at this time, she could tell that she seemed to have done something that she might feel ashamed of herself.

Otilia looked at Tommy Hawke: "Yes, when my father learned that I was working recently, he kindly suggested that I submit your application to Lincoln High School in addition to one other place, and I thought his suggestion was good, so I submitted a second copy for you without your consent." ”

"I don't know where to submit it other than to Lincoln High School." Tommy Hawke shrugged a little dazedly: "As a school-level club, if there are other issues that need to be approved, the school administration can also come forward to help us deal with them. ”

"That's true, but you and I both know that Lincoln High School didn't look very optimistic about the event you initiated, so it didn't continue to apply at all, but only gave us a minimum of 1,000 yuan to support the establishment of a school-level club, which is ...... I mean, it's a cross-border activity, and of course they know that the money is not enough, but they don't support it, which means that they are not optimistic about you, so ...... So I submitted another application to the Rhode Island Superintendent's Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, hoping to get a little extra support if we ran out of money. Otilia said what she had done.

Hearing Otilia's words, Tommy Hawk was a little confused.

The Superintendent of Public Instruction, the seventh person in the state legislature, looks like he is only the seventh in line to succeed to the governor's position, and needs to be hung up by the Governor and Admiral of Rhode Island, the lieutenant governor, the secretary of state, the attorney general, the state auditor, and the treasurer general to take over the governorship of Rhode Island.

But in reality, this position is not low, because all public education affairs in Rhode Island are under the leadership of the superintendent and the state board of education, of which he is the secretary.

All public schools need to report to him if they want to apply for financial support, and if they don't agree, they don't want to get state financial grants, and all public school non-teaching administrative appointments and dismissals are also up to him for the final evaluation, according to the federal system of a state and other countries in the United States, this guy is equivalent to the secretary of education of Rhode Island.

"So why can you be sure that the other party will accept your overstepping application submission instead of just returning it?" Tommy Hawk asked, staring into Otilia's eyes.

"Because Mr. Frank Chaffee, the current Director of Public Education, is my godfather." Otilia spoke, "But I didn't change any of your application, I just used to ...... I sent the application to his office in an envelope with my name on it. ”

"Then why did you decide to tell me again? You have good intentions, so according to your character, you must not tell me. Tommy Hawk looked at the guilt-filled teacher in front of him and comforted, "It's okay. ”

Otilia took a few deep breaths: "I'm not sure if I'm doing wrong or right now, because an hour ago, according to the normal workflow, I called Lincoln High School to report the situation, and I learned a shocking news, I don't think it was possible because we could do it ourselves, I'm not denying your efforts, but ...... That doesn't seem to have anything to do with effort. ”

"What's the news?"

"You know there's no official summer camp at Princeton, right?"

"You said no, but you have participated in some unofficial summer events that departments or professors have participated in."

"That's right, that's what I received, Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs learned about the CSLS program, called Lincoln High School to find out about the situation, and said that there are professors from the college who are interested in the Caribbean Summer Summit we mentioned, and hope to know more about the content of the summer camp, please Lincoln High School fax a more detailed event to them in the near future, our principal dialed the number four times to check that the other party's phone number is indeed from Princeton University, I believe that I am not dreaming, the school is now in a meeting, calculating what is the maximum salary that the school can pay if the other party is really willing to attend our summer camp, according to Mr. Principal's insane statement, even if he is asked to take Mr. McDyce, vice principal, and Mrs. Wharton, the provost, to dance part-time to make money, he must seize this opportunity, he hopes that you will return to school as soon as possible after the inspection, come up with the most detailed and comprehensive summer camp plan, and he will review it verbatim and fax it to the other party in person. ”

Tommy Hawke's eyes subconsciously widened, a Princeton University professor was willing to attend a summer camp initiated by one of his public high schools, not to mention that the principal was willing to dance, and now he Tommy Hawke took Dennis and Pam all the way from St. Vincent to dance along the street to make money, and jumped back to Rhode Island willingly, then Princeton!

Look at how many tour groups are there this summer, just taking high school students around Princeton University, without any real academic plans, but with the name of summer camp, there are more than a dozen, and each one is full! Parents of high school students in the United States are willing to pay for the money.

As long as the news is true, Tommy Hawk doesn't feel the need to promote anything else, and by putting the name of that Princeton professor, hundreds or thousands of truly elite high school students can get money out.

Otilia waited for Tommy Hawke to come to her senses, then whispered again, "And my godfather, who graduated from Princeton University, I think it all has something to do with him." ”

"Princeton, hundreds of kilometers away, couldn't have come to us when they saw our advertisement, right? Because we haven't really started to get the word out yet, and even if they did, they wouldn't be interested in learning about a junk high school's summer camp activities. Tommy Hawke exhaled, looked at the sea in the distance, took a few deep breaths in a row, and tried to digest the news before turning to look at Otilia:

"So, what did your father, Mr. Farrell, want me to add to my application? There is no need to hide it, it must be that you want me to add something or modify something, I can understand, and it doesn't matter what you add, it's no problem, Miss Farrell, your godfather they give so much that I don't think it's true, it's just a summer camp, worthy of your godfather's name Princeton? It's too scary, doesn't he know that a Princeton name can make countless high school students who want to cross paths with Princeton rush to it, so you can just start a new one yourself. ”

Otilia bowed her head, still ashamed of her father's words: "Put your name after my name modestly, my father said it so arrogantly. ”

"Don't say that it's after your name, I'll completely cross out my own name, and then help you kill Dennis and Pam who know about it, so that someone doesn't leak the secret!" Tommy Hawk made an exaggerated expression and smiled at Otilia and said:

"I already felt that the world was not very real, because this small country was so perfect, it was simply for our summer camp, black, friendly and open-minded, and now, even more untrue news has appeared, your godfather has thrown out the news that makes me feel that this world is even more absurd, even if I change the club to just your name, I don't think he paid as much, too much, really too much, this is a completely unequal deal."

"I just hope that when we run low on funds, he might see my name and get more funds from the school to support our activities, I didn't expect it to be like this, Tommy, I didn't think about taking what belongs to you, I even called him and my father just now, but they didn't admit it."

"Whether they admit it or not, it doesn't make sense, the important thing is that they have made arrangements, what you can do now is not to live up to these arrangements and spoiling you, I will withdraw the application when I go back, revise it again, I don't care, I just want to earn tuition and a glossy resume on paper, and now he has added the word Princeton, which means that as long as this summer camp activity is completed, I have it all, and you know what, plus the name of Princeton, and the ideas provided by the prime minister of this country, It suddenly seemed to me that our summer summit could become a reality. Tommy Hawke's eyes sparkled at Otilia and said:

"I mean the real elite American high school students, the real summer summit, not the American teenage student leaders like Dennis who can come up with the U.S. military to help catch wild boars."