Ye Ye and her companions were awakened by a series of increasingly loud phone calls, the earsplitting voice of their exchange student leader, Luo Le’er, urging them: “Ye Ye, Du Miao Miao, Qiu Yu, you have thirty minutes to gather at the academic affairs office of St. Enos University, or pack up for Hong Kong!” The three of them, like soldiers rallying, quickly woke up from their confusion, donned the uniforms representing their Hong Kong alma mater, and rushed to the university at top speed… Fortunately, their residence was very close to the school.
Just one minute shy of thirty minutes, the three of them appeared agilely before their teacher Luo Le’er and fellow students. ‘Agile’, of course, was a skill honed from their daily habit of tardiness! >_< Luo Le’er stared at these students, absolute fixtures, hard to teach, hard to manage, hard to serve, yet they were excellent, smart, and had strong backing… She was truly at a loss. Being a university professor was indeed challenging. You could trick primary school students, scold middle school students, manage high school students, but university students? You might not beat them, definitely can’t scold them, and if anyone’s doing the deceiving, it would be them deceiving you… Sigh…
Luo Le’er brought the 10 boys and 10 girls she was in charge of to the academic affairs office at St. Enos, where they completed the enrollment procedures for exchange students. The attending officer, Wei Li, was a middle-aged man, refined and approachable, who took them around the campus and informed them that during the second class of the morning, there would be a school-wide video broadcast in the auditorium introducing these exchange students.
During the second class, in the lecture hall, all video equipment was operational, and the TVs in each classroom turned on. The twenty exchange students, including Ye Ye, sat neatly in the first row, wearing their Hong Kong school uniforms. On stage, the principal and department heads sat in a long row at the rectangular podium, while the second row and beyond were filled with outstanding student representatives from various departments and grades…
