Friday,
afternoon.
In the long green corridor, figures swayed.
The students gathered in front of the notice board and whispered, with eager eyes like the bachelors in the old society who were waiting to pick up the bride from a rich family and hit the hydrangea.
"Guess who will be chosen by Professor Cruz."
"Miao Angwen? Gu Weijing? Ma Lei?"
Someone casually reported a few outstanding students in the school who have been at the forefront of various subjects all year round, and their drawing skills are obviously much better than ordinary classmates.
"They should be safe, but the remaining spots are hard to say."
"Where are Mona and Koko."
One of the boys mentioned the names of the most beautiful girls in school.
The original male classmates on campus are roughly divided into two groups. One group thinks that Mona is a goddess, and the other group thinks that Kou Kou is hotter.
Even if a more popular transfer student comes to the school, there are still many fans of these two influential figures.
"There is definitely no chance for Kou Kou. Unless someone in his family can gain some connections... It's a pity that although her father has power, it may not be difficult to be a local emperor in this three-acre area of Yangon, but in such an internationally renowned big star artist In the eyes of my wife, I’m afraid it’s nothing.”
"Where's Mona, our student council president also got straight A's."
In fact, Miss Mona's academic performance is not bad every year. Judging from the transcript alone, she can also be ranked at the forefront of the campus.
"She is very serious about her work. She can leave a good impression on the teacher in cultural classes, but her paintings are actually average. I heard people say that Gu Weijing helped her with a lot of homework for professional classes in previous years... Speaking of which Here, I remember Jerry, the captain of the school team who confessed his love to Mona at the opening ceremony. The teacher kept praising his talent and he seemed to have worked very hard in the past six months..."
There are girls gossiping quietly.
"I'm envious. If I had known that Professor Cruz would come to our school, I would have worked hard to practice in the studio. I wouldn't be willing to give in!"
This classmate with a plaintive tone expressed the thoughts of many students.
The most regrettable thing in life is this.
Just like in the children's story, everyone was originally a laundry girl in a small place. One day, fate suddenly opened the door to you unexpectedly.
The Crystal Pumpkin Cart is parked at the door, but you can only watch pitifully as the other Cinderella jumps onto the carriage heading for the forked road in life.
Professor Cruz is this magical carriage with the power to change destiny.
In the atmosphere of international schools in the past, the most popular among students was never the Nerd who was good at studies and could get A's in cultural and professional courses.
They are more interested in becoming "cool" students such as leaders of clubs, players of the school team or lead singers of the student band.
The atmosphere on campus is also relatively happy, and many of them spend more energy on club activities than practicing their main courses.
Anyway, for most Dulwich College Yangon students, the artistic dream of becoming a professional painter is a bit far away.
Most of their family backgrounds are not bad, and if they don't want to go to a prestigious school, they don't have much pressure to study.
But no one expected it,
In the last semester on campus, an artistic giant like Mrs. Sakai came to school.
In this way, the pie-in-the-sky Qingyun Ladder is placed very close to you.
Most people can only watch it slip away.
Although, opportunities always come to those who are prepared.
But I still feel so unwilling!
"Coming, coming, the list is out." someone shouted.
At this time, the notice board was in the most conspicuous position. The day after Mrs. Sakai came to the school, the principal of Dulwich College had already removed the wall promoting the establishment of the campus club in previous years.
The principal made a small wooden street sign in a childish way. The arrow above the roadside read "Gifted and Talented Talented Class - Road to the Palace of Art" in large fonts.
There are five blank nameplates below the arrow, representing the final selection list.
In order to show its importance, the school also built a plastic advertising display board with a full-body photo of Mrs. Sakai next to it. With the slogan on the side, it looked like a supermarket promotion.
People turned to look.
Miss Mona, the president of the student union, led an uncle in a school uniform to separate the crowded students and walked between the notice boards with an expressionless face.
"That's it."
Mona pointed to the wooden sign with a little nervousness in her tone.
The school janitor nodded.
The uncle took out a hammer and nails from the bag at hand, then picked up a nameplate with the student's name on it, and started tapping on the sign next to the notice board.
"Who's number one?"
Many people held their breath.
Even though this opportunity is destined to have nothing to do with most people in the study, they still gather here and want to know who is the best on campus in the eyes of real artists.
【1. Miao Angwen】
At the top, one of several names that everyone guessed appeared.
A tall, thin boy with thick-framed glasses and dark skin waved his fist fiercely.
"I'm the best in the school. Some people do whatever they want all day long and really think they are great artists. No wonder my girlfriend doesn't want him."
Miao Angwen grinned, looking at his name at the top of the list, and his tone was a bit strange.
"congratulations."
The students around him smiled tacitly, and some looked at the student union president from the corner of their eyes.
They all knew who Mr. Miao was mocking.
Myo Aung Win is one of the top students in the school.
In various aspects, he is somewhat similar to Gu Weijing.
The two people's grades were either first or second, and their family conditions were not good at Dewey.
The income of Gu Weijing and his family, Gu's Book Gallery, is at the bottom among the rich and expensive students in international middle schools. It is not much better than the working class. In other words, the traditional Eastern Xia family attaches great importance to education. The old man gritted his teeth. Then he and his cousin Gu Lin were sent to an international school.
The same goes for Miao Aung Win’s family.
Every year, in order not to appear that only a group of young men and young ladies study in international schools, which are too class enemies, they at least pretend to support local education in Myanmar and receive government subsidies.
Similar private international middle schools will have several scholarship places to recruit ordinary students with average family conditions but good grades.
More than half of the tuition fees can be waived.
Miao Angwen and Gu Weijing are both students receiving scholarships from the school.
The two people are in similar situations, but their relationship is not good. At least Miao has a somewhat sour taste in Gu Weijing's mind.
It's not just that Gu Weijing can get more first places than him, he always feels that this Gu Weijing is a bit "pretending" every day.
Obviously, the family conditions are not the same as mine. We are all poor people receiving scholarships. No one understands anyone. This Gu Weijing still pretended to be aloof and indifferent to money all day long.
affectation.
What made him even more unhappy was that everyone on campus was supposed to be a shabby little transparent person who was mediocre in everything except studying.
He has never been popular with girls, his family is poor and his appearance is average. Ordinary girls would not even look at Miao Angwen.
But Mona, the most beautiful girl in the school, has always had a crush on Gu Weijing.
Why!
After school started, many people like Miao Angwen felt secretly happy when they saw Mona suddenly acting cold to Gu Weijing.
The president of the Women's Student Union on the side turned a deaf ear to Miao Aung Win's ridicule of Gu Weijing.
Mona just looked nervously at the sign in the school guard's hand, making anxious calculations in her heart.
Not counting Ms. Sakai, there are only five places in total.
After deducting a few students who are recognized as obviously better at drawing than others, there are only one or two places left for ordinary students.
"Can I get it?"
Mona thought of her previous private visit that was not very successful and felt a little depressed.
The second person on the list is the girl named Ma Lei by her classmates. The third and fourth people are also students on campus who often go to the studio to study.
No matter how hard you work, you will gain something. It is not surprising that the works of good students in the past are more likely to be selected by Mrs. Sakai.
However, his name did not appear on the list.
But Gu Weijing was not selected by Professor Cruz.
Not only did he not get first place like he used to.
Even the third and fourth place were not him, which made Mona feel indescribable.
For those who swim against the current, retreat if they don't advance, and waste time without overestimating their abilities, as she said, reality will naturally slap him in the face.
Mona sneered in her heart.
She had just scanned it quietly, and there was no trace of Gu Weijing among the people surrounding her waiting for the list to be announced.
It seems that this guy doesn't care about him at all.
"Who's in the last spot?"
"Look at Wei Jing, he used to be the best among us in painting. Even if he doesn't perform well in his vacation homework, there is a high probability that it won't be a problem if he is selected into the gifted class."
"Tch, it's hard to say. The artist's vision in selecting students is not comparable to that of the teachers in our school. Maybe people think Gu Weijing's painting method is too ingenious."
Miao Angwen looked triumphant at this time and analyzed: "I think Gu Weijing is okay except for his sense of space, but there is nothing else that stands out. To put it bluntly, his good results in the past were just a matter of taking advantage of his talent. .”
Mona didn't want to listen to other people's comments.
She pinched her fingertips and looked nervously at the last blank space.
The school janitor took out another sign from his cloth pocket. Before the uncle could nail the sign to the shelf, a sharp-eyed classmate saw the name on the sign.
It's neither Gu Weijing nor Mona as everyone guessed.
But...
"Jerry Conrad, it's Jerry!"
The younger boy from the school team excitedly patted the tall blond boy on the shoulder, "Boss is so awesome... He will become a great artist in the future, but don't forget us brothers."
"Fuck, no wonder you had the courage to confess your love to Miss Sandnu at the opening ceremony without showing your real face." Someone was trying to flatter her.
"No, no, my father took me to a studio in my hometown in Germany for a month of special training in the winter. A teacher from the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts gave me some pointers."
Jerry also rubbed his hands, very excited.
He unconsciously glanced at the lonely student union president, feeling that his luck was really good.
This semester is the time to prepare your portfolio for university applications.
Parents from all walks of life also showed their magical powers. Not only Mona's family could spend money to hire outstanding graduates from previous schools to teach her how to draw.
Jerry, who had better family conditions, was sent directly to his "hometown" in Germany by his father, a foreign company executive, and stayed in a private studio for more than a month.
That studio can only be regarded as a small studio in Germany, where the art industry is very prosperous, but the owner of the studio is a lecturer at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts.
That's one of the best art schools in the world.
Although the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts is not one of the four established international art academies.
However, in recent years, top artists have continued to accept invitations from the school to become tenured professors.
Majors such as the Department of Visual Arts and the Department of Oriental Art have a vague tendency to catch up from behind, and can even occasionally reach the top spot in some European art academy rankings.
After being trained by lecturers from the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts for more than a month, Jerry felt that his painting ability and understanding of art had undergone radical changes.
Only then did she have the confidence to use campus tradition to pursue Mona at the opening ceremony.
Unexpectedly, unintentionally inserting willows and willows will create shade.
After returning to Myanmar this semester, I met Mrs. Sakai and became an external professor at Dulwich College.
In the past, my grades could only be considered mid-range, but I was able to get into Mrs. Sakai's advanced class.
This made Jerry very happy.
"When the boss exerts his strength, all those cats and dogs will be worthless."
Someone boasted: "The short film that the boss made a few days ago has been viewed more than 50,000 times on YouTube. To be a student of Mrs. Sakai, he has done so much for social welfare. He simply doesn't give other students a way to live."
"That's right, that's right. Now Mona can't escape the clutches of the boss. Gu Weijing didn't even make it to the list for the improvement class. How can he have the dignity to compare with our boss Jerry?"
"What's your name, Mona? Call me sister-in-law." The younger brother laughed.
"Boss is treating me today! Let's go eat Japanese food!"
The boys on the varsity team started to boo.
Many girls stared at Mona with jealous eyes. After pursuing such a handsome, rich and talented young man, they were so envious that they wished they could replace him with their own bodies.
Another focus of the younger brother's mouth, Mona was currently enveloped in huge disappointment.
In fact, on that day, the girl was mentally prepared after being evaluated by Mrs. Sakai as "uncharacteristic" and so ordinary that only other people who drew worse than her could enter the advanced class.
But the cruel reality was before her eyes, and Mona was still shrouded in huge disappointment.
"After all, you still didn't seize the opportunity..."
She lowered her head, her chest felt like a huge stone was pressing on her, and even her breathing was a little suppressed.
"Wait, what is that?"
Some students suddenly discovered that the school janitor did not leave immediately.
He actually took out another cardboard card from the cloth bag. This card was obviously different from other log-colored nameplates.
It seems that I temporarily found a piece of cardboard and made it separately in the later stage.
Someone had written a line of letters on it in scrawly marker handwriting.
"Miss Mona Sandenou, you are also admitted - Adriana Cruz."
Say more. There must be something to add. But I’m not in a good state of doing homework and writing. Try to adjust your schedule.
(End of chapter)
