There are a lot of things that can't be solved by finding the cause, not to mention that the cause is halfway unexplained! Seven or eight days have passed since her birthday party, and Angela still doesn't understand what Jessica is thinking.
What is certain, something is haunting Jessica, and this has something to do with herself, what could it be? If I use my original thoughts, then Jessica has some ulterior thoughts about herself, such as... push her down? how can that be!
Angela shook her head and threw this ridiculous idea out of her mind. However, deep down in her heart, she hoped that this was the case, but her reason told her that it was unlikely. In any case, she had to find a way to get Jessica to speak her mind. The girl didn't want to affect their relationship because of it. She intuitively told her that if she didn't, she might lose Jessica!
At this moment, she suddenly felt someone poking her in the back, and she woke up abruptly, only to find that the students in the entire classroom were turning their attention to herself, including the teacher on the podium.
"Well, I'm so sorry, I think I'm distracted." Angela smiled awkwardly.
"Although I know you are very busy, Miss Angela, I need to remind you that it will affect your grades if you continue like this." The teacher on the podium kindly reminded him that he is a Chinese named Qi Yuhan and his English name is Nai Zheer, about 30 years old, wears glasses and has a medium build. He looks polite, and he speaks and does things very gracefully. It is said that he graduated from the Chinese Department of Fudan University in Shanghai and once served as the location director of China Central Television's Zhengda variety show. Later, he resigned to study for a Ph.D. in Cambridge. After failing, he came to California for two years and served as a Chinese teacher at Weber High School!
Yes, that's right, Chinese is one of Angela's foreign language courses, and the other is French! Shameless, isn't it? But this is also a strategy, after all, except for the SAT test. The comprehensive assessment takes up half of the factors, and the elective courses take up half of it, so why not choose what you are good at
"Okay, then I'll repeat it again, Miss Angela, please go to the blackboard and complete this fill-in-the-blank problem." The Chinese teacher pointed to the blackboard and spoke again.
Angela shrugged and stood up. Her Chinese is undoubtedly the best among the students who take Chinese as an elective—even though there are not many people who take this foreign language, Qi Yuhan once said that her Chinese is better than most of the senior students, so she is often chosen to answer questions. Make the girl somewhat dumbfounded.
Coming to the blackboard, after taking the chalk from the other party's hand, Angela looked at the question on the blackboard, and Angela couldn't help but look at Qi Yuhan with a smile, "Mr. Qi, this question seems to have exceeded our expectations. Is there a level?"
"It doesn't matter." The other party raised his hand, "I just want to use this to illustrate the difficulty of Chinese. If you feel that you can't answer, then you can give up, it's nothing."
"Really? But you may be disappointed, sir," Angela shrugged and smiled slyly, "don't worry, I'm definitely not going to get a ruler!"
She said and looked at the blackboard, and the fill-in-the-blank question on it was like this: When someone wanted to call him, he walked out, and the words that needed to be filled in were listed below, a total of three: Ji, Has, Si!
This should be a question that can only be regarded as the third grade of elementary school in China, but it is a question that is enough to make many beginners of Chinese dazed or even fainted. Fortunately, Angela will answer it, otherwise the school medical office will definitely add one more person. patient!
The girl happily filled in "already" without any hesitation, and then looked at the Chinese teacher on the side. The other party was slightly surprised, and then clapped: "Very good, Miss Angela." The other students in the classroom also clapped. Many people were relieved, they were all prepared to abstain from the vote once Qi Yuhan called them.
"Thank you." Angela nodded politely to everyone, and then looked at Qi Yuhan: "Actually, if you use those four words for the question, I think I can only abstain."
Following her, she wrote the four characters Wu, Xu, Rong, and Shu on the blackboard, and then shrugged: "I know that their strokes and pronunciation are different, but it is easy to confuse them. I have to say that Chinese characters are really amazing."
She said these two paragraphs in Chinese. Even though she has never been to China in the past 14 years, she still speaks in a sincere manner in her private practice, which makes Qi Yuhan applaud again. : "I think I will definitely give you an A+ in the final grade. I believe that if there is a graded test in Chinese, you can easily pass the fourth grade!"
The girl smiled and returned to her seat.
When the school bell rang, students flooded out of the classroom like a tide, finding their lockers and packing up for club activities or going home.
Angela walked to the female campus alone. The most criticized part of the Chinese class was that the classroom was on the male campus. Every time after class, there would always be some male students who came over to chat up, seniors, students of the same grade, etc. Maybe There will be lower grades after this year, which is really annoying.
The way of teaching in American high schools is basically similar to that of universities. Students are free to study in the classrooms of relevant courses, instead of teachers going to each class. Therefore, except for the compulsory courses, Angela and the girls who met at the beginning of the school year were few and far between. Taking classes together, they are not as familiar with them as those in the film club.
Opening the car door, the girl sat in and pulled up her skirt - because she has to wear a school uniform to school, she's almost used to wearing skirts now, and I have to say it's a terrible thing - then she threw some of the letters in her backpack to the driver Pu Guanshui .
"It seems to be a lot less. Do you want me to congratulate you?" The other party flipped through the letters, and then threw one of them back: "This is written by your fans, not a love letter."
Angela sighed, because the school's address was exposed by reporters, and every day she received many letters from fans and fans across the United States. Of course, these can't be sorted out like love letters, otherwise the paparazzi will know, there will definitely be some. What kind of genius girl doesn't care about her fans and other news concocted.
"Okay, Ryan, let's drive, I still have things to do this afternoon!" The girl said after sorting them away. There were originally activities in the film club this afternoon, but she asked for leave because this afternoon she Go to Pixar and witness the opening of a new era of animation!
It took about 20 minutes to get to Pixar, and Steve Jobs and the rest of the company, CEO Ed Cam, directors John Lassatt and Andrew Stanton, were already waiting for her.
The location of the screening is in the conference room, and the projector can barely find the feeling of a movie. Although there are no opening and closing credits, the quality of the film is really excellent, and it received warm applause from the beginning.
The memory is so strange. Although it has been a long time since the last time I watched Toy Story, after the familiar images flashed before my eyes one after another, the fragments of the deep memory gathered again. Angela was surprised to find that the cartoon in front of her was at least 90% in line with the one in her memory! You must know that those previous movies, the fit is 60%, which is very impressive.
Of course, this is related to a short animation that Pixar has already completed, and it is also related to the sub-shots drawn by himself, but it is still a wonderful experience.
After the video was played, the conference room was silent for a moment, and then there was warm applause again, followed by the main creators hugging and cheering loudly. Angela did not hesitate to give her applause. She knew that neither Steve nor Ed, John, the founders of Pixar, could be more excited than these people. Its predecessors have had a detailed understanding of the experience! She was taken aback when she found out that the group had been working on computer animation since the late 1970s. Remember that personal computers were just beginning to appear at that time! What crazy and passionate people these guys are! Therefore, the success of Pixar is not based on accidental factors!
"Okay, everyone." Ed stood up at this time and clapped his hands, "Thank you for your hard work for so many years, now that the dawn has appeared in front of us, the era of computer animation will start from our hands, and I can witness this scene. Very honored, once again, thank you for your hard work.”
Applause resounded in the conference room again.
"Then, now, please go back to your position and continue to work hard to complete it completely, thank you!" Ed raised his hand, and the main creators nodded knowingly, whistling out of the conference room in twos and threes, and at the end of the meeting Only Steve, Ed, their founders, and Angela were left in the room.
Steve took off his glasses and took a deep breath, pinched the bridge of his nose, and then stretched out his hand to Angie: "Thank you, Miss Angela."
"It's nothing. I think this will be my wisest investment." The girl gave him a small hug and didn't say much, everything was silent. In fact, even without her, Pixar would have succeeded, and his own capital injection only made this matter a little bit ahead - so far, 20 million yuan has been invested in 12 million yuan, and most of them have been used to buy computers Now, 160 units have been added before and after! This allowed the animation to be initially completed at the end of March - not only did it take a big advantage, but it also got the gratitude of others, and there is nothing more cost-effective in the world!
"Okay, let's talk about the next thing now." Ed coughed dryly at this time, "According to the current progress, we can complete the work in about the first week of April, and if everything goes well, we will A preview meeting can be arranged in three weeks, and a series of promotions can be carried out after the film review is released, and then it will be released in the summer."
In fact, no one had an opinion, he was the CEO after all, but he was just setting the stage for what Steve would say next.
"I decided to list the company about a month before the release of this cartoon." Steve said this, and the fat John did not object. They had obviously already discussed it, so the formal proposal was Why
Angela was a little puzzled, but when they turned their attention to themselves, they remembered that they still hold 40% of the equity! The girl who didn't have the boss's consciousness smiled embarrassingly, then nodded quickly: "I'm fine."
Then after scouring her head for the handful of financial knowledge, she added: "So how many shares do I need to put on the market?"
Steve laughed: "The initial decision is to take a total of 10% of the shares. You and I need to split 4%, but it depends on the release of the film."
"Okay, I'm fine." The girl nodded, it's only 4, it's no big deal, "Toy Story" has more than 300 million box office, Steve is not stupid enough to continue to dilute himself in this situation 's equity.
"Then, I'll say goodbye first." Angela stood up.