Almighty painter

Chapter 91 The King and Queen

"I wish you all a happy semester at school."

Mona's opening speech lasted about 10 minutes, and then the curtain came to an end.

"In addition to the above-mentioned campus activities. Mr. Principal also asked me to convey some notices to you, mainly for our 13th grade students."

She folded her speech in half and took out a brief note from the folder on the rostrum.

Grade 1 at Dulwich International School is a foreign language preschool for five-year-old children, and Grade 13 is the highest age group that is about to enter university.

In the next six months, they will spend their last semester in middle school.

"As usual, there will be no fixed class schedule for the last semester. If there are students who do not have enough credits, they can re-take the courses of the lower grade group. This year's university admissions meeting will be held at the end of the semester. Please be sure to prepare in advance This is the best chance for you to apply for your ideal university."

Mona scanned the senior students in the front row.

Even the few students who were known for their cynical attitudes on weekdays rarely became serious at this time.

With such high tuition fees in international schools, besides the teaching environment, the most interesting point is that it is convenient to apply for partner universities?
A good university means brighter career prospects.

just a few seconds later,

Mona's pretty brows furrowed slightly again.

She noticed that her childhood sweetheart was huddled in the chair with a sleepy face, staring at the tablet, not knowing what she was doing.

It seems that he doesn't care about applying to college at all.

"I don't know what to say, I'm not responsible for myself."

Mona was worried.

She flicked the ponytail behind her head with a bit of annoyance, and heavily rubbed the ground under her feet with her leather shoes.

"My speech is over. Thank you all."

"Mona, please wait."

She shook her head and was about to step down when she saw someone in the front row raised her hand.

"Jerry, do you have any questions?"

Mona recognized the tall boy with slightly curly hair who stood up suddenly as Jerry.

Although the name is a bit reminiscent of the classic comedy character in Tom and Jerry, this boy is not short at all, but tall and masculine.

As the president of the girls' student union in the school, Mona has access to the background information of most of her classmates.

She vaguely remembered that Jerry was of mixed race, his father was a senior employee of a large German company, and his mother was a beautiful woman from Yangon.

The other party's family conditions are very good, every day after school, a servant can be seen driving a BMW 7 series to pick him up.

In addition, Jerry himself is still a member of the school basketball team, so he has always been very popular with girls on campus.

The other party did not speak, but magically pulled out flowers from the bag under the seat.

in the mean time,

As if rehearsed in advance, several students from the music and art class took out harmonica and other small instruments from their pockets and started playing.

Listening to the melody, it should be the theme song "Fool for you" of the movie "Little Women".

Is this a confession?
coax……

The auditorium suddenly became lively.

"It's so romantic!"

A girl exclaimed softly.

European-style middle schools, love itself is a part of campus life.

Confessions can often be seen in school.

But this kind of public confession at the opening ceremony with flowers and a band is like a bridge that only exists in Korean school idol dramas.

Very romantic indeed.

Especially the object of the confession is the president of the female student union who has always been aloof.

"This is the opening ceremony, not a private occasion. This romantic and brave little gentleman was detained after school." The headmaster in the front row stood up and motioned for everyone to be quiet.

However, after issuing the punishment decision, he didn't seem to have any plans to stop the confession.

He smiled and clapped.

"For now, though, I wish you luck."

Seeing that the principal didn't stop the confession, he applauded instead, and the atmosphere in the auditorium became even more enthusiastic.

"Promise him!"

"Promise him!"

"Promise him!"

Whistles and screams came one after another, and many students were shouting like booing.

This beautiful girl from India is one of the most popular girls in the school, and has maintained a record of zero raids since she went to school.

By analogy to the game, no one has ever been cleared through the dungeon, which undoubtedly became a more eye-catching garland around her.

Everyone is looking forward to which warrior can take the lead.

Mona on the rostrum raised her eyebrows and scanned the whistling boys with her eyes.

This kind of occasion where everyone booed together will put a lot of psychological pressure on the party being confessed.

Some thin-skinned little girls, whether they like it or not, are too embarrassed to say no.

However, Ms. Mona is not a shy girl. The aura of the president of the female student council was revealed at once, and the screams and cheers in the crowd gradually became quieter.

"Miss Sandeno, I like you..."

"Sorry, this semester is a critical period for applying to universities, and it is also a turning point that determines the second half of the career of art students like us. I am not in the mood to fall in love."

Mona rejected the boy's advances in a flat and skillful tone, just like facing a croaking duck.

She is such a popular figure, she has learned how to handle it freely when she meets a boy who jumps out to confess her love eight times if not ten times.

If it was Gu Weijing, she might have hesitated.

Mona has already dealt with the others very skillfully.

Shh... There was a loud sigh of disappointment in the auditorium.

"So Miss Sandeno...you don't have a boyfriend yet, right?"

Jerry was not discouraged.

Mona looked up at Gu Weijing's direction, and saw that he finally stopped playing on the tablet at this time, but looked up at herself.

"At this time, you finally know how to worry?"

Miss Mona snorted coldly in her heart, turned her head, gritted her silver teeth and said, "No."

Jerry immediately handed the bouquet to Mona.

"Then after the admissions meeting is over, can I date you? Just treat it as an appointment in advance. I really like you."

coax!
The auditorium that had just quieted down became noisy again.

Many girls felt that the boy's response was both polite and demeanor, which was a plus.

"How did you know you could go to the same university as me?"

Mona asked back.

"You go to that university, I will enroll in that university." Jerry answered very simply, it seemed that he really didn't want to play for fun.

His tone was suddenly a bit sly: "And our school has a tradition...Miss Sanderou should be familiar with it."

Tradition?

Some freshmen in the audience did not understand the traditions of the school, and immediately some seniors and sisters popularized the campus culture in their ears.

There is a rule on campus called King&Queen (King&Queen).

This is not a unique tradition of Dulwich International Secondary School. Many private middle schools and universities with a long history in Europe and the United States have it. They select the king and queen of the school every year.

The specific selection method varies from school to school.

For example, King of the University of Utah in the United States is the captain of the football team who can lead the school team to defeat the rival Mormon Brigham Young University in the same city. Queen is the most popular girl voted by students on the campus network every October. The school will select the No. 1 top student in a certain physics course or calculus competition to become the king or queen.

The king and queen enjoy certain small privileges on campus, such as free lunch and the sunniest seats in the restaurant.

Trinity College, Oxford University allows him to choose the male dormitory where Sir Newton once lived. According to legend, the apple tree in the yard is the one that smashed the apple on the head of Newton.

There is another right that is common to almost all schools,

When you become the king and queen in the school, the first boy or girl you pursue is usually not to say No.

On the contemporary Internet, people like to refer to the behavior of doing some of the most prominent things in school as "getting the right to choose a spouse first", which is actually the same as these long-standing campus traditions.

Of course, this is just campus culture.

Whether you are willing to abide by it or not depends on the other party's wishes, and you cannot invite someone of the opposite sex who already has a definite lover. This is obviously shameless.

In Gu Weijing's school, European and American campus cultures are blended with Asian traditions.

Every year at the school recruitment fair, the boy who can get the most admission offers with his portfolio is elected as the campus king of this year.

The Queen of Girls is the most popular girl at the ballroom party on campus.

It is not easy to become the king of the campus.

Dulwich International School has cooperated with a total of 26 universities, and the world ranking of the Academy of Fine Arts ranges from [-] to [-] or [-].

Different from the admission mode with clearly demarcated scores, portfolios are subject to subjective judgment. Famous art academies each have their own characteristics, and art academies also have their own preferences and preferences for visual arts.

It is possible that your application was accepted by a school ranked [-] but rejected by a university ranked [-] because of style.

It is not bad to get two or three admission offers at the school recruitment fair every year.

Usually students will only prepare their portfolios specifically for one target school.

Unless you are a very good student, the portfolio is recognized as good. No matter what style of professor you like, you can see at a glance that you are a good candidate for painting, so you can get offers from many universities.

The highest record in the history of the school, once a senior got the letter of intent for admission from eight schools at the school recruitment meeting by relying on a 140-page portfolio that had been prepared for a whole year.

The senior heard that he is now a signed painter of the well-known French gallery Yvon, and a painting can sell for tens of thousands of dollars, officially embarking on the road to become a professional painter.

"Well, I'll give you this chance."

Mona looked in Gu Weijing's direction again, and suddenly took the flowers in Jerry's hand.

"I like persistent and serious people. If you want to impress me, you can. If you can get the most offers at the admissions meeting, I will agree to date you."

"This invitation is open to all boys."

She pulled out a flower and pinned it to the neckline of her school uniform jacket, and then, like a little queen crowning her subjects, she tossed the other bouquets to the senior area of ​​the auditorium.

Such an exciting scene,
Not to mention that many boys are excited, even many girls think that Mona's appearance is very cool.

Many students stood up from their seats, wanting to catch the petals flying in the air.

Gu Weijing's mouth twitched slightly.

"Hey, what did you do to upset your girlfriend?"

Kou Kou chewed gum, turned her head from the front seat, and looked at Gu Weijing curiously.

"Koukou, Mona has already said that she doesn't have a boyfriend."

"Cut, simple."

As a high-ranking queen of the sea in love, relying on the intuition of beautiful girls, Kou Kou is ready to capture the small movements of Mona's expression.

She knew that the president of the student union must still like Gu Weijing in her heart.

……

The noise at the opening ceremony was just a small episode.

The life of the students is not easy at all.
For the students in the art class of the graduating grade, the school basically has no fixed curriculum, and the cultural courses have all ended.

Portfolio is the only theme of life.

Generally, a normal portfolio should include at least three parts: sketching, creativity, and free proposition works, with a total of more than [-] mature works, in order to fully demonstrate your artistic characteristics and painting skills in front of the admissions teacher.

At this time, there are only more than three months until the admissions meeting at the end of May.

On average, at least ten works must be completed every month.

Everyone is basically busy.

The public studios in schools are often open until nine or ten o'clock in the evening before closing.

Gu Weijing, who did not plan to make a traditional portfolio, was not affected by the frenzied atmosphere in the school after school.

He went out and took a taxi and went straight to the Lucky Orphanage.

Now Gu Weijing is very familiar with the staff in the orphanage, and he comes here almost every week. After discussing with the headmistress, a room was cleared out in the orphanage as Gu Weijing's studio. .

Gu Weijing feels that this is much better than the studio at school or at home.

He always remembered that there was still the last step of his professional mission to be completed.

[Serial Mission: First Look - The Way of Career (Final Mission)]

[Current task: Complete a work of any subject with a length of more than 8 inches, and reach the emotional rating-above the feeling of the heart. 】

[The ultimate reward for serial missions: a random legendary skill]

Perhaps it reflects the classic sentence of Zhao Yi, a poet of the Qing Dynasty, "The family and the country are unfortunate, the poet is fortunate, and the poems are changed due to the vicissitudes of life."

Whenever Gu Weijing walks into the Lucky Orphanage, his emotions are often moved by various human tragedies.

The realist school of painting in the last years of Tsarist Russia believed that illusory classical myths and legends, great heroes, romantic literary legends and illusory exotic customs are not as deep as the portrayal of simple reality.

The dark side of society is the best teacher for painters.

This sentence is very reasonable.

As Gu Weijing learned more about the lives of those poor children, every time he relied on his own efforts to change the living conditions there bit by bit.

It is easier for him to inject his emotions into the paintings.

Gu Weijing thinks,
The distance from being able to create a painting that meets the requirements of the task is only a shallow layer of window paper.

(End of this chapter)