Chapter 101 Preparation for the Exam
Fortunately, Emma understood him very well and would tease him occasionally, so Namir was not so angry anymore. However, his personality prevented him from recovering so quickly.
Zhang Wei was extremely busy for the next two days. She was not busy reviewing to get the King's Scholarship, but she needed to go to the clothing store to order school uniforms.
Devon's school uniform needs to be customized at a special clothing store. Namier's had been customized before. It is a four-piece suit consisting of a bow tie, vest, shirt and tuxedo. He wears it in winter and summer. Usually, he customizes several sets for replacement.
Zhang Wei had to rush to finish the work because the girls' school usually issues notices late, and everyone had forgotten about this matter before Zhang Wei left last time, so she had to go quickly.
The girls' school uniform is also a black four-piece suit, but the bow tie is replaced with a court-style Elizabethan collar, the tailcoat is replaced with an ordinary long suit jacket, and the trousers are replaced with a knee-length skirt.
Unlike boys, they have to wear black socks, while girls need to wear white mid-calf socks that cannot go above the knees, and also wear black leather shoes.
Fortunately, her usual white socks and black leather shoes are the simplest styles, so she doesn't need to buy new ones.
However, the tailor at the clothing store told her that at most they could make one set the day after tomorrow, and four sets was an impossible task.
This is the only way for now, but Emma said she will help her take it to school when the time comes.
Because Devon's rule for freshmen is that they are not allowed to go home every week in the first month, which means she needs to stay in school for four weeks before she can go home.
This is somewhat similar to the function of military training in China, and it is indeed quite harsh for these freshmen aged 11 to 13.
She couldn't go home for a month, so Zhang Wei was preparing things to take with her. After all, she couldn't see Namier, and if she was missing something, it would be really hard to get through a month.
The bed sheets, quilts and other items in the dormitory are all provided by the school, so these large items are excluded.
All that was left were clothes, but she could only wear uniforms at school, and she didn't get any...
So she only needed to bring some inner clothes, and she also brought the autumn clothes, autumn trousers and flesh-colored leggings that she secretly bought in Chinatown, just in case.
Then there are the black socks. I prepared two pairs, three pairs of leather shoes including the ones I was wearing on my feet, and two pairs of sneakers, after all, I had to take physical education classes.
Zhang Wei's hair has reached her waist, and she is considering whether to cut it. Thinking about the seven full classes in a day, she feels that she does not have much time to wash and blow-dry her hair every day.
So in the end she decided to cut her hair shorter, just to shoulder length, which was still long enough for her to tie up when exercising.
Finally, there are some daily necessities, as well as cups, towels, toothpaste, toothbrushes and other miscellaneous items.
There are also mobile phones and laptops. Manny said the school will provide them, but Zhang Wei has a lot of information on his own computer, so he thinks he should bring them with him.
When everything was almost packed up, she started to think about doing a brief review.
Just sitting at the desk, I suddenly felt like I didn't know where to start.
English and mathematics are almost the subjects she has never given up. After returning from surviving in the wilderness, although she has been relaxing, she will set some learning tasks for herself every day as before.
But maybe she needs to review her Latin. Country A attaches more importance to Spanish as a second language, but it is different in the UK, where they attach importance to Latin.
Zhang Wei knew this when she knew she was going to study in the UK, but Tifield only started the Latin club class in the fourth grade.
She couldn't master three languages at once, so she didn't take on any additional studies while maintaining a steady learning progress.
Then I didn't think about it during the holidays, but Spanish also belongs to the Indo-European language family, and the Spanish letters are developed from the Latin letters, so it is not too difficult for Zhang Wei to learn Latin.
They have many similarities. To be honest, Zhang Wei feels that Spanish is simpler than English. She did not spend much extra time on it and can already communicate freely.
However, the grammar of Latin is much more complicated than that of Spanish, and there are many things to memorize. It is a dead language. If you want to explore the origins of ancient European culture, you must learn Latin.
Moreover, Latin is a written language, and few people communicate in Latin, just as few people speak classical Chinese nowadays.
The value of classical Chinese is that it can help modern people understand the thoughts and culture of the ancients.
The same is true of the significance of Latin to European culture. Therefore, as a written language, it is impossible to learn it through oral communication like English and Spanish.
Just like classical Chinese has many logical word orders and one word has several meanings, the same is true for Latin, which has many different word orders, tenses, and grammars that can only be learned by rote memorization.
Fortunately, Zhang Wei has a good memory and doesn't find rote memorization a difficult thing, so he is able to rank among the top in the Latin class.
So she took her old notes and spent an afternoon reviewing them. She felt it was okay. It was obviously not realistic to learn new content again in such a short time, so she tried her best. It depends on the situation how she will perform in the exam.
Autumn has begun in London, and the weather feels more comfortable than in New York City. The temperature difference in the temperate maritime climate is relatively small.
On the day of the exam, they had to split up. Charles took Zhang Wei and Namier to school for the exam, while Emma went to the clothing store to help Zhang Wei get her school uniform.
Since the children in the family moved to the UK, Charles hired a driver for the family and he traveled to London more frequently. Emma even considered finding a new job in London.
In the end, it was Charles who persuaded her that it was a bit unfair for her to treat the two older children like this, as they did not receive such attention. Only then did Emma give up.
In fact, Charles also wanted to shift his work focus back. After all, it was not pleasant to see an empty house when he returned home every day. However, his company was facing new opportunities, which were hard to come by, so he could only give up with reluctance.
However, he has already started looking for a more comfortable place to live in London. With so many children, the apartment is a bit crowded.
Although the children are grown up, it is really uncomfortable to see them crowded in the room every day. He feels that a house with a garden and a yard is a home, and this apartment is just a temporary residence.
When Zhang Wei arrived at school, he found that no one was wearing school uniforms that day. It seemed that they would not need to wear them until the school officially started tomorrow.
So Zhang Wei didn't wait for Emma's school uniform and went straight into the school to wait for the exam. Charles was waiting outside.
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