Chapter 86 Visiting the Club

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Since the arrival of exchange students in the United States, the international academic exchange program has suddenly spread in schools. Previously, only a small range of people knew it, but now everyone knows it. When everyone learned that the list of exchange students to the United States had not been finalized, they immediately fluctuated. After returning home, they reported the matter to their parents one after another and expressed their strong desire to go abroad.

Now it's not like before. In the past, everyone had a sense of fear of foreign countries. However, after the reform and opening up, all kinds of avant-garde and trendy things abroad have gradually become popular in China, accompanied by all kinds of ideological trends and customs. Due to the disparity between science and technology and national strength, a trend of foreign thought has gradually formed in China. Basically, everyone's first reaction to foreign things is good. It seems that even the moon abroad is rounder than that in China.

What's more, this time it is a policy encouraged by the state.

Some well-informed people have inquired clearly that the "International Student Exchange Program" began after the Second World War. The main purpose is to strengthen exchanges between different countries around the world, enhance understanding, cultural communication and academic exchanges between countries, and promote friendly exchanges between countries.

Abroad, this plan has been in full swing for a long time, and everyone still has the opportunity to choose the country you like. It's just that China joined this plan relatively late, and it has not officially become one of them until now. This time it is just a pilot.

Exchange students go to school in designated schools abroad, make new friends, study prescribed subjects, and participate in school community activities, etc.

The attraction is so great that you can not only gain different experiences in different education systems, but also through a year of exchange and life abroad, students can hone their abilities in all aspects and enrich their life experience. Even if you don't learn anything, in such an environment, you can at least speak your own foreign language and learn it well. This alone is attractive enough.

Moreover, in this initial pilot, the state is fully responsible for the expenses of the school, and the object of the exchange is actually the United States, which undoubtedly increases the attraction of this international exchange.

So, when parents realized that this opportunity was very rare and could bring great benefits to their children, they heard the news one after another and began to use their own various relationships, hoping to win a place.

Xu Wenjing was not very interested in this matter, so she did not tell her parents, but in the end, her parents learned about it from other sources and casually asked her. Seeing that her daughter was not interested, she did not mention it again. At their height, I don't want to compete with others for this kind of place in this kind of thing. If my daughter really wants to go, it's more convenient to study abroad directly.

When Xu Wenjing came to school the next day, many people listened to her and wondered if she was going to go.

Some of these people regard her as a potential competitor. After all, Xu Wenjing is really too excellent, and it seems that her family background is also very unusual. If she wants to go, it is estimated that she will be inseparable. When they learned that Xu Wenjing was not interested in this, they were naturally relieved. There were so many places, and now it is equivalent to another place.

Other people are Xu Wenjing's pursuers and secret lovers. Their meaning is very clear. If Xu Wenjing decides to go, they will also try their best to fight for it. If they don't plan to go, then they don't have to worry about it. You know, a year is not short. Who knows what will happen in a year?

Today, those students in the United States have not been specifically arranged for each class, but a special person will take them to visit the campus. After that, they will be assigned to various Chinese families to start the exchange student journey according to their specific situation.

Beijing S Middle School is a first-class high school in China, so the software and hardware conditions will not be much worse. Since its establishment in 1907, the campus has been expanded and renovated many times. Generally speaking, it is a simple and modern coexistence, and it is one of the few exemplary high schools in China.

Xu Wenjing still didn't go to class today, but accompanied everyone all the way to visit the science and technology building, library, canteen, laboratory...

This time, I changed a translator. Although it is still a little troublesome, the communication has been relatively smooth.

During the conversation, Cook accidentally learned from the student representative that there was also an amateur radio enthusiasts association club in S, and he immediately became interested. For him, instead of looking at how good the school's equipment is, it is better to look at some clubs or clubs organized by students themselves.

So at his strong request, everyone had to change the original established route and walk towards the club.

This radio enthusiast club, led by a physics teacher, is spontaneously formed by students. All the equipment in it is brought by the students themselves from home. The school only borrowed a small abandoned office for them. During this period, the relevant leaders of the school were planning to remove the club, because they were worried that it would affect students' study and examination results, but they didn't expect it to come in handy at this time.

Cook is a senior ham with very skilled related skills. When he saw the radio station in S, he sat directly on the radio station and operated it. The performance of the radio station was not bad, and the antenna effect was barely acceptable. Cook called several hams in the United States in front of everyone.

When he saw the QSL pass card on the wall of the room and some game records, he praised the members of the club. On the spot, two exchange students from the United States proposed to join the club, because they were also hams and got their own call sign.

However, unfortunately, among the members of the whole club, only Xu Wenjing has her own independent call sign. Others usually use the club's collective call sign and have not yet applied for their own private call sign.

Although Xu Wenjing has been accompanying them, she was a junior reporter of the school's news agency for a while, and then acted as a student representative responsible for the school's reception, but she and Cook did not communicate much. On the one hand, because she didn't understand Cook's New York accent, and on the other hand, she rushed to have There are more students, and she doesn't want to join in the fun.

However, as the only ham in the S-Chinese amateur radio fan club with its own call sign, he was named by Cook to exchange QSL communication cards with each other as a souvenir.

Although she didn't carry the cards with her like Cook, she just left a few cards in the club activity room before, so the two signed their call signs and various parameters with each other.

Cook took out a small metal box like a business card holder from his pocket and said, "My luck seems to be great. I just arrived in Beijing and met two ham friends. It's a good start."

Although China has a large population, the number of hams is relatively scarce. When he usually communicates, he encounters more hams in other countries than in China. However, he found that his understanding seemed to need to be changed. China's ham seems to have developed very well, and the younger generation has grown rapidly.

Xu Wenjing casually asked, "I don't know who is the first ham Mr. Cook met after coming to China?"

Cook replied with a smile, "He is younger than you. Look, this is his QSL card."

"BD7XZZ!!" After Xu Wenjing saw the card in his hand, she couldn't help exclaiming.

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