Chapter 156 Friendly Match
She has been exercising more and more in recent years. She has developed thin muscles on her legs and arms, her strength has increased a lot, and her height has been growing. But Dalal's entire skeleton has grown like a balloon, and she still looks like a skinny dwarf in front of Dalal.
The ninth grade semester is almost over, which means the hardest time for students is about to begin.
What Zhang Wei said about her supervisor having something to do was not an excuse. They replaced Professor Townsley as they wished last year. The new professor was also a teacher from Cambridge, but he was a male teacher.
Perhaps as the number of students increased, it became difficult to find so many female teachers, so Devon later recruited some male teachers.
This male mentor has a very famous name - Tom Cruise.
Zhang Wei once associated him with that famous movie star, but the difference was too great, and Zhang Wei gradually became immune to his name.
On the surface, Professor Cruise and Professor Townsley have two completely different styles.
Professor Cruise has the traditional British "intelligentness". He speaks slowly and calmly, like the otter in the movie Zootopia. People with impatient temperaments may easily get irritated by his slowness.
He often extended the weekly class meeting to an entire afternoon. At the beginning, Zhang Wei and the others tried to protest, but he accepted it with a very good attitude, which made them feel a little embarrassed.
But at the next meeting, he still wanted to hold it for an entire afternoon. They continued to protest, and Professor Cruise continued to speak slowly:
"Okay, okay, you guys have something else to do later, right? It'll be over soon. Sorry, I'll definitely manage the meeting time well, but there's still #### I haven't told you, so please wait a moment."
He accepted it humbly and refused to change.
Sometimes they suspected that he did it on purpose, but Zhang Wei and the others couldn't do anything about it. He did care about their studies, but he was too slow and had to say one sentence in three parts.
As a result, their Treetop Club's study time was adjusted, and they had to spend one afternoon every week summarizing Professor Cruise's lessons for the week.
This is why Zhang Wei was not sure whether she could participate in this friendly cricket match. She was not sure whether Professor Cruz could finish the meeting before six o'clock, even though this was their first friendly match with a boys' school.
But Dalal still said that he would reserve a place for her and hoped that she could go there when the time comes. After all, there is currently no main player among the school team substitutes who can replace Zhang Wei.
Whether in terms of strength or reaction speed, Zhang Wei is the best in the cricket team. Although new players are constantly joining the school team, her position is rarely shaken. As the oldest student in the girls' school, she still has an advantage in age.
Maybe it was because the semester was almost over, but Professor Cruise didn't talk so much. He also collected exercises for each subject and some course directions and suggestions for GCSE course selection for them.
So Zhang Wei had time to arrive and reunite with the team. Dalal kept walking back and forth, looking towards the playground entrance. When he saw Zhang Wei appear, his eyes immediately lit up:
"Vera! Quick!"
Ever since the student union's "power seizure" incident, the relationship between Zhang Wei and Dalal has been somewhat delicate.
Zhang Wei's previous impression of Dalal was that she was a teammate with a good personality, but after discovering that she was secretly carrying out the orders of the Student Union and trying to recruit her into the game, she has always been indifferent to her.
Dalal felt that he was in the wrong and did not dare to conflict with Zhang Wei. Although they had been quite polite to each other before, the politeness later had a sense of alienation, so Dalal did not have much hope that Zhang Wei could come over this time.
Zhang Wei herself prefers to participate in competitions. The more intense the competition, the more relaxed she can be after, so she will try to participate whenever possible.
Competitions within the school are very different from those outside the school. Zhang Wei actually enjoys the process of challenging the unknown, and it is also a happy thing every time someone recognizes her because of the strength she has demonstrated.
In the past year, they have played cricket matches with other schools at least once a month, so the cricket team mainly trained with the school team, and the rest of the people needed to train on their own. Until now, when the semester is almost over, only the school team can be seen in the school, and the other teams have disappeared without a trace.
This is why everyone joins the school team, so that they can have more training and competition opportunities. Without these two things, not many people can persist in studying.
This friendly match with the boys' school can barely be considered an intra-school match. The reason why Dalal is so interested in it is that the boys' school seemed to have originally planned to send non-main players to participate in the match.
However, their idea was rejected by the school, which still asked them to arrange for their main players to play.
All the members of the girls' school learned about this incident and felt that they had been insulted by the boys. They hoped to slap them in the face with their strength in the official competition.
The story was so well-documented and the details were so clear that even the conversation between the boys' school captain and the External Relations Department was leaked, which made not only the cricket team members but most of the girls in the school very excited.
Zhang Wei even suspected that someone had fabricated it to boost everyone's morale.
But for Zhang Wei, a competition is a competition. There are only two differences when fighting with anyone: winning or losing.
It can be said that their women's cricket team has beaten almost all the women's teams in London and rarely encounters rivals, while the boys' school cricket team does not have such glory.
So another possibility is that the school organized this friendly match to motivate the boys' cricket team members to make progress.
As they walked with their heads held high into the largest cricket field on the boys' side of the school, they heard cheers from the stands.
At this time, the girls held their heads higher and straightened their backs.
But when they actually stood face to face with the male team members, they felt a little oppressive. That damn height difference!
In their team, only the captain Dalal seems to have the aura to compete with these boys who are over 1.8 meters tall on average.
Of course, there are exceptions. One of them is the acquaintance Zhang Wei saw this time, the short Art, whose height has not changed much. Seeing him, Zhang Wei couldn't help but wonder if this was really their main player?
Although cricket is not a sport that requires height, looking at Art's skinny limbs, I suspect the men's team really looks down on them and uses ordinary players to fill in the numbers.
Art, who was sitting opposite him, felt a chill. He looked over and saw the shadow of his life - Vera Wilson.
His chest, which had just been puffed up like a little rooster, shrank, and he couldn't help but feel an ominous premonition in his heart...
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