Chapter 115 Arrival in the Fog City, IMO Opening
This time, Shen Yanting did not insist on sending Su Yi off. He just watched her get on the online taxi and took a picture of the license plate number.
More than half an hour later, Su Yi sent a message to Shen Yanting, telling him that he had arrived at the Affiliated High School of Normal University and contacted the teacher of the training team.
The two chatted as usual, but that night, Shen Yanting couldn't sleep.
The next day, the old man saw his grandson opening a package and thought he had bought some action figures. However, when he opened it, he found only books and test papers inside.
Mr. Shen felt that his presbyopia had worsened.
"My dear grandson, why did you send so many books?" the old man couldn't help asking.
"Grandpa, I said I wanted to apply to Qingdao University." Shen Yanting said, holding a lollipop in his mouth, "I'll be living here for the next month. Can you help me find a tutor?"
The old man was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time.
"Grandpa, Grandpa!" Shen Yanting couldn't help but raise his voice and muttered, "Is your deafness getting worse?"
The old man knocked his head angrily: "Grandpa, my ears are very sharp!"
"Please hurry up with the tutoring matter!" Shen Yanting urged.
The old man agreed, but then turned around and called his eldest son.
Shen Congsen laughed: "Dad, what Xiao Tingzi said is true. He can't get into Qing University, and the girl doesn't want to be with him."
"This request is too high!" The old man couldn't help but speak up for his grandson.
"I'll contact him about the tutoring. Don't interfere. It's a good thing that he's ambitious now. It's better than being an uneducated and unlearned playboy."
"That's true, but it's so hard." The old man muttered, but didn't try to stop him.
The tutor arrived that afternoon, and the old man secretly visited several times. Seeing that his little grandson was really studying hard, he was very pleased and even secretly took a photo and sent it to the family group.
The high school courses were completed in the second year of high school, and the remaining year was basically focused on review, so even if Shen Yanting stayed in Beijing for a month, it would not affect him. On the contrary, the three children who stayed in Province S seemed to have lost their backbone. Fortunately, Su Yi would check the homework in the group from time to time, and the three of them did not dare to relax.
In early July, China's IMO national team set off for the foggy city of Country Y.
There are a total of 108 countries participating in IMO this year, with 600 contestants. It seems like a large number of people, but when it comes to each country, there are only single-digit places.
The IMO test questions are provided by each participating organization, carefully selected by the International Mathematical Association, and finally submitted to the International Mathematical Olympiad Committee for selection. The test questions are finally confirmed and then negotiated into the six UN working languages, namely Chinese, English, French, Russian, Arabic, and Spanish.
Each national team will have a professional translator to translate into the native language, which will also make it easier for students to answer questions.
However, according to regulations, translators will arrive in the participating cities in advance. Since they will be exposed to the test questions in advance, in order to prevent the possibility of leaking the questions, they will not be able to meet with their own team members before the end of the competition.
This year's team leader is Professor Huang of Huangpu School, a famous Chinese mathematician, and two members of the Chinese Mathematical Association, both associate professors from various universities. In addition, there are two young teachers who are responsible for some daily chores.
After the plane landed, the group set off for the designated hotel for the IMO competition to check in and register. During the period, each of them was given a small package containing a competition certificate, official badge, mascot and other items.
The weather in the foggy city in July is a bit chilly, and basically only two layers of clothing are required. Most of the national teams arrived today. As the only designated official hotel, there are contestants coming and going in uniforms of various countries, with different skin colors and different languages, but everyone's face is filled with excitement and anticipation.
The opening ceremony of IMO was scheduled for the third day, so they were free to move around on the second day. However, since the children were young and were abroad, they were only allowed to move around in the hotel.
Fortunately, the hotel is big enough, with hot springs, swimming pools, cinemas and gyms, so they are not bored.
At ten o'clock in the morning on the third day, the opening ceremony officially began. The first speaker was Professor John, a famous contemporary mathematician from the host country Y. He is an outstanding mathematician who has made contributions in many fields such as combinatorial game theory, geometry, number theory, group theory, algorithms and even quantum mechanics theory.
Each of them wore something like an earplug, which was a tool for simultaneous interpretation, so when the mathematician spoke on the stage, contestants from various countries could understand him.
Mathematicians rarely like to give long speeches. Professor John finished his speech in ten minutes. Then the organizer talked about some precautions. Then came the opening ceremony performance specially prepared by the host. There was a large-scale song and dance performance, as well as a speech about the development history of IMO. All in all, it was very exciting.
After the performance, contestants from various countries began to communicate freely.
Su Yi met Hanyu no Hara again.
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