Six Hundred and Forty-Two. Fishermen's Travel Activities
Preston College, if you are not familiar with English, you may hear Princeton, a world-renowned private research university, one of the eight Ivy League schools.
However, this is not the case. Preston College here is just a very ordinary junior college in St. Johns. In fact, the entire province of Newfoundland, except for Memorial University of Newfoundland, other schools are very bad...
Qin Shiou felt that the two of them might be a little troublesome, which was related to the academic system of Canadian universities, so he had to introduce the vacation situation of Canadian universities first.
For undergraduates in Canadian universities, the summer vacation usually has 5, 6, 7, and 8 months of vacation, and the summer vacation for college students is very long.
During this period of vacation, students have many choices. They can choose to take more courses during the summer vacation and strive for an early graduation; they can carry out school trips and travel to surrounding cities to increase their horizons; they can also choose to take vacations and work part-time.
So it seems that it is very common for college students to work in June, but there is a premise that it is an undergraduate university, which is not the case for a specialist university such as Preston College.
For junior colleges, June is a very important day, because they usually start classes three times in January, May, and September.
September is a major class, and all majors in all universities, regardless of undergraduate or junior college, will start classes. January is a small class, and some majors will start classes at this time. There are fewer classes in May, but they are often aimed at international students, that is, students like Wang Lei and Yao Lili. Not surprisingly, they should go to school in June and have no time to go out to work.
Now the two have time to go out and work. Then Qin Shiou judged that they were repeat students.
What is a repeat student? This is a special title. As the name implies, it is an international student who has retained a grade, but this kind of student is different from a domestic repeater. They are transfer repeaters.
As we all know, domestic universities are expanding their enrollment rapidly, and students with a little ability can be admitted to an undergraduate school. At this time, those who study abroad are either very good at academics and accepted by foreign schools, or their families want them to go abroad to study a more powerful one. the University.
If you come to St. Johns to study abroad, you basically come to Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Memorial University of Newfoundland is the only comprehensive public university in Newfoundland, one of Canada's top universities, and a world-renowned university.
Same as other schools in North America. Memorial University of Newfoundland is relatively easy to get in, but hard to get out. It is not so easy to graduate, it has very strict academic requirements for students, and it is different from American universities, if its students fail a single subject during school. In the summer vacation, you have to retake and pass the course before you can take classes in the next semester.
If you fail to retake the summer vacation, you have to keep going.
In this way, some international students will choose to drop out of school when they see that they have failed too many subjects or feel that they will not be able to pass the retakes. However, domestic families sending their children to study abroad are often very powerful. The family has worked hard to send their children out of school. It is too shameful to be eliminated and go home without a diploma. In this case, repeat students appear.
This kind of students often see that they have no hope of upgrading after the exam in May every year. Then transfer to some ordinary undergraduate or junior colleges that are easier to graduate to go to school, you have to take a diploma to go home, right?
In this way, such as Wang Lei and Yao Lili. It should be transferred to a junior college, so they don't have to install the normal academic system of the junior college to go to school in June, but just prepare for the official start of school in September.
Sure enough, after chatting, Qin Shiou asked about their academic status, and the two admitted embarrassedly that they had come to Memorial University of Newfoundland for a year. As a result, I failed professional courses and it was difficult to pass. He simply transferred to Preston College without his family behind his back.
Because they feel sorry for the family, the two of them are also embarrassed to ask the family for more money, so they want to take advantage of the summer vacation to work part-time to earn some money.
St. John's first choice for part-time jobs is the fishing ground. They found out that there was a very powerful Chinese fishing ground owner on Farewell Island, so they thought of him for help.
Qin Shiou thought about it, and there was a lot of work in the fishing ground in summer, and these two people would definitely not be able to work at sea, so let them take care of the grass in the fishing ground, help mow the lawn, and clean up the vegetable garden and orchard. Originally, he had to hire someone to do these jobs, so he simply hired these two people.
But Qin Shiou put the ugly words first: "The work in the fishery is not easy to do. I will give you 800 Canadian dollars a week, but if you can't do it, then I can only fire you."
Receiving Qin Shiou's promise, Wang Lei nodded vigorously and said, "Xiang Fang, brother Qin, both of us are from working-class families, and we can endure hardship. You can do whatever you want, and we will try our best to do it well for you."
Seeing that the two of them were carrying luggage, Qin Shiou asked Shaq to clean up two fisherman's apartments, but Wang Lei said that one was fine, and they were lovers.
After setting up the two of them, Qin Shiou gave them a small vacation to adapt. They don't have to work today and tomorrow, but their wages are counted. Let them stroll around the fishing ground and get familiar with the surrounding environment, so that they can get twice the result with half the effort.
After dealing with the matter of Wang Lei and Yao Lili, Qin Shiou dragged the recliner to the shade of a tree to enjoy the cool sea breeze in early summer.
As a result, there were many things to do today, so he was destined to not be able to enjoy the sea breeze leisurely.
Not long after he sat down, a call came from an unknown number, from Ottawa.
Qin Shiou answered suspiciously, and asked, "Qin Shiou, Daqin Fishing Farm, hello, who can I ask? If you want to sell something, it's better to hang up the phone. I don't lack anything at home."
A gentle female voice sounded: "Mr. Qin, hello, did you participate in the St. John's fish farm owner's protest march last month?"
After hearing this, Qin Shiou murmured in his heart, damn it, isn't it so unlucky, the Canadian government is still playing the trick of settling accounts after autumn? But there was nothing to fear in such a thing, he readily admitted.
After he confirmed it, the other side of the phone said: "I am Julia Joant, the head of foreign relations of the Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans, this is Mr. Qin, since you held the protest, we have been trying to find a way to deal with your Confused issues, ease the relationship between fish farm owners. To this end, we decided to hold a short-term educational trip at the end of June, do you have time to participate?"
Qin Shiou understood that the protests had taken effect. The Ministry of Fisheries probably wanted to hold a social event or something, bringing together the owners of traditional fishing grounds and resort fishing grounds.
Thinking of this, Qin Shiou is not satisfied. The world is as black as crows, but the Canadian government has won the true inheritance of the leadership class of our celestial dynasty, and He Xini is good at it.
He didn't want to accept such a result, so he simply refused, saying that he didn't have time.
After hanging up the phone, he lay down for about half an hour. Just as he was dazed, the phone rang again.
Qin Shiou frowned and looked at the number, and it was still calling from Ottawa, so he answered the phone angrily, and said, "I said I won't participate, ok? I have something urgent, I'm very busy, and my fishery has a lot of work!" (To be completed continued)