Chapter 43 Conversation
Santa Monica, adjacent to Los Angeles, is a city built on the west side of Los Angeles near the coastline. When most people mention Santa Monica, they don’t think of it as a city alone, but think that it is also a city under the city of Los Angeles. a district.
In fact, this is a misunderstanding.
Around Los Angeles, there are many small cities, such as Santa Monica, Laguna, Beverly, Komodo Valley, etc. Although outsiders seem to be in the Los Angeles area, these cities are independent of cities outside Los Angeles. .
Even a place like Beverly has its own independent city? Politics? The government exists, and there is a city? long.
It can be said that the humanistic environment here in the United States, as well as political? The governance environment is very different from that in Huaxia, and Jin Xiantai only gradually learned about these things after living here for more than half a year.
When he first came to America in this time and space, he was really not used to it.
But after all, he wants to survive here, so Kim Hyun-tae can only learn and understand slowly, and finally adapt.
This is a process of getting used to and accepting slowly. Even if you immigrate here, you have to go through all of this, let alone a time traveler like Kim Hyun-tae.
The city of Santa Monica has a population of 6 million, basically catching up with the population of a medium-sized city in China in another time and space.
But in this time and space, Santa Monica, with a population of 6 million, is just a small city in the Los Angeles area of Greater California.
Since there are more than 6 million people living here, the municipal departments need to consider education, medical care, roads and other related livelihood issues.
Therefore, in Santa Monica, dozens of public colleges and universities and more private schools have been established to solve educational problems for families.
Needless to say about those private colleges, these are places where the children of rich people study, and there is no need to doubt the quality of teaching.
But the tuition fees of private colleges are not affordable for ordinary families.
Most of the time, these private colleges accept either the children of local wealthy people or foreign students coming to the United States.
Locals choose public colleges and universities.
For example, the college that Kim Hyun-tae is preparing to join the entrance examination, even if it is such a public school.
'Santa Monica Public High School' can also be ranked in the top five in the Los Angeles area. The faculty is very strong. It can be regarded as a well-known public high school, and this university has many graduates every year. Accepted by some famous universities.
Therefore, many ordinary families hope to send their children to this college to study.
From this point of view, Americans treat their children's schooling problems in fact no different from Chinese people. Parents hope that their children can have a good school.
Of course, this is true for American families in this time and space, but it is not clear in the original time and space.
After all, Kim Hyun-tae traveled to the United States in this time and space, and lived here for almost a year. He had never been to the United States in the original time and space.
'Santa Monica High School' has an elementary school, a junior high school and a high school. It is basically a comprehensive education school that includes three stages of education, primary school, middle school and high school. It has more than 30,000 students. Big college too.
When Kim Hyun-tae told Dave that he didn't need to find a private college for himself, the suitable school that flashed in Dave's mind was Santa Monica College.
And after Annie instructed her housekeeper, Nord, to provide Dave with the necessary assistance, the matter of Kim Hyun-tae's enrollment was completed smoothly in a short period of time.
If ordinary people want to enroll temporarily, it must be very difficult, or even impossible.
But with Annie's instruction and assistance, this matter is nothing.
early in the morning,
Kim Hyun-tae and Dave met at the publishing house, and then Kim Hyun-tae got into Dave's car and went to Monica High School.
Along the way, Dave gave Kim Hyun-tae a detailed introduction, and some information about the school gave Kim Hyun-tae a little understanding.
According to Dave, although Santa Monica College is a public college, its teaching quality is no worse than that of private colleges, and even much higher.
Of course, aside from the quality of teaching, there are many problems in public colleges, such as the uneven quality of students, there are even some gang problems, and the "bullying" problem among students, etc.
Basically, such problems exist in various colleges and universities in the United States, and they cannot be solved at all.
But as long as those problems are ignored, Santa Monica colleges are still very good.
After all, this university is ranked in the top five in the Los Angeles area, and it can be seen from this that it is not ordinary.
Therefore, Dave reminded Kim Hyun-tae that if he wants to study in this school, then he should try to keep a low profile and not go with some troubled teenagers, otherwise those guys will bring him trouble.
In this regard, Kim Hyun-tae deeply agrees.
He only chooses to continue studying to solve the current troubles and set a good example for his daughter in the future, not to go to school to pick up girls, or to party with a bunch of brats.
Besides, although he has the appearance of a 16-year-old boy, he has the soul of a middle-aged man in his bones. If you make him unable to play with those boys, there is really a generation gap, okay?
In Kim Hyun-tae's eyes, those teenagers under the age of 20 are basically classified into the ranks of brats.
Therefore, Jin Xiantai silently remembered Dave's kind reminders.
He will not be high-profile in the academy, nor will he have contact with some bad elements. He will integrate into school life in a low-key and cautious manner, and then finish high school and go to university smoothly.
As for the so-called gang issue or other issues, Kim Hyun-tae thinks that he has basically nothing to do with him.
As long as he doesn't look so dazzling, he won't attract people and eyes with malicious intentions, won't he?
How could Kim Hyun-tae, who has the soul of a 36-year-old middle-aged man, not understand this truth?
Well, there is another point, that is, you can't reveal your wealth.
Those little bullies in the school like rich children the most, and this is their main target to squeeze.
As long as I don't show my rich side and keep a low profile, it shouldn't be difficult to get through high school smoothly.
At least, in Jin Xiantai's mind, it shouldn't be difficult.
But Jin Xiantai still forgot one thing, that is, how could a person like him not attract attention.
To paraphrase a line from a movie he had seen in his previous life, it was 'he is like a firefly under a bright moon, he is so bright and outstanding, he can't hide it at all. ’, so Kim Hyun-tae’s college life must be ‘rich and colorful’.
Especially when he travels through the space-time tunnel, after coming to this space-time, his appearance has also been 'optimized', and now he has become handsome and compelling.
Therefore, the lethality of a handsome guy like him to college girls is simply terrifying.
The idea of attracting girls is tantamount to attracting trouble in disguise.
Girls are synonymous with trouble, and not for nothing...
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Marty, a chubby black woman, aged 42, looks like the black aunt next door, but she is actually the principal of Santa Monica High School. This is the first time Kim Hyun-tae saw Marty impression.
After driving to the school with Dave, Dave took Kim Hyun-tae directly to find the black principal, and made an introduction to Kim Hyun-tae.
Marty is a person who keeps a smile on her face all the time, and her chubby figure and round face make her smile more friendly.
Greetings and courtesies, and then Dave directly talked about the topic. Principal Marty didn't hesitate, and immediately took out two sets of test papers, and asked Kim Hyun-tae to start answering on the spot. At the same time, in order to ensure fairness, he called Several other teachers invigilate the exam.
Marty took out two sets of test papers, one is the knowledge test paper for grade 11 (senior high school) and the other is the knowledge test paper for grade 12 (senior high school), and each paper covers mathematics, culture, chemistry, history, animals and plants And so on.
This is equivalent to saying that it is testing the state of Kim Hyun-tae's knowledge and what stage it is.
After all, according to the 16-year life trajectory of this time and space forged by the unscrupulous alien elementary school student for Kim Hyun-tae and his daughter, Kim Hyun-tae dropped out of school at the age of 16 (high school sophomore), and he has dropped out for a year.
Then the problem arises.
Kim Hyun-tae is now back in school, so should he start from the second year of high school, or the third year of high school?
According to the actual situation, Kim Hyun-tae should repeat the second year of high school, which is the 11th grade.
However, in order not to waste too much time in high school, Kim Hyun-tae wanted to transfer directly to the third year of high school, which made the school a little embarrassed.
Therefore, in the end, such a situation appeared, and he was asked to do two test papers at the same time.
In fact, the school's worries are unnecessary, because as far as Kim Hyun-tae's current IQ is concerned, it is no problem for him to go directly to university.
So, facing two test papers of high school knowledge, how could it be difficult for him.
In front of the principal, Marty, and several unfamiliar male and female teachers, Kim Hyun-tae started writing the paper immediately after getting it, without hesitation at all.
In just one hour, Jin Xiantai finished answering two test papers and dozens of papers.
This kind of speed really scared the principal and jumped with those teachers.
Principal Marty asked several teachers to leave her principal's office with the papers, and went to the quiet evaluation of the scores. After the teachers left, she started chatting with Kim Hyun-tae, and at the same time, she learned about Kim Hyun-tae, a "boy" through the chat people'.
Dave was very quiet during the whole process, and he didn't mean to interrupt at all.
Everything depends on Kim Hyun-tae himself.
Obviously, Kim Hyun-tae himself had expected such a situation, so he didn't panic at all.
"What is the reason that prompted you to choose to return to school?"
After thinking for a while, Principal Marty asked.
Kim Hyun Tae responded without hesitation: "For myself, but also to be able to set a good example for others, and also for my daughter."
Hearing Kim Hyun-tae's answer, Principal Marty, who was chubby like the black aunt next door, showed a hint of puzzlement in his eyes.
Obviously, she didn't think of some of the meanings contained in it for a while.
For this reason, Kim Hyun Tae explained a little bit...
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