In his speech before the winter vacation, Mr. Principal also specifically mentioned the exchange student who performed Chinese folk songs and dances, saying that he brought new and classic elements to the school's evening.

These words, to Feng Yiping's ears, are actually not very comfortable, they feel new about this, which shows that they do not understand the situation in China at all.

In short, the good news is that for the first time, and probably for the last, in the United States, he ushered in a winter vacation that lasted nearly four weeks.

His American classmates in the business school had already planned their itinerary in advance, in short, in two general directions, either to go to warmer places, such as Florida, Hawaii or the Caribbean, to spend their vacations and bask in the sun by the sea.

Or, go to a colder place, such as Canada, or some European countries, mainly to go skiing.

There is a saying in California, "Good students from rich families go to Stanford, and good students from poor families go to Berkeley."

The University of California, Berkeley, is a public school, and Stanford University, where the alumni call themselves "farms", is actually a private school, and the guys who sit or lie on the school lawn and chat are actually from wealthy families.

As for international students from abroad, students like Li Jialun, whose family conditions are good, and whose whole family has been westernized, and who attach great importance to Christmas, must go home and spend Christmas with their families.

Most of the international students choose to stay, although the 911 incident has dealt a great blow to the aviation industry, but these cross-border air tickets are still not cheap.

And Feng Yiping's holiday is really not easy, in addition to taking care of Huang Jingping, who is now a day by day, he has determined a lot of itineraries through phone contact, after the Christmas public holiday in the United States. From the west to the center, to the east, he will visit everywhere.

Mei Qiuping, who originally didn't know anything about Christmas, now knows about this foreign festival because of her son, and called on the night of Christmas Eve. "Yiping, are you really not coming back?"

Feng Zhenchang next to him, cleaning up the breakfast dishes on the table, muttered in his mouth, "You are wordy, they have said several times, if you don't come back, you still have to ask again and again,"

Actually, when muttering about this. He was also listening to the movement over there with his ears pricked up, maybe his son changed his attention and came back?

"Mom, I really don't have time, there are a lot of things going on here, besides, we can't stay for a few days even if we go back. It's impossible to spend the New Year at home, so forget it this year. "What Feng Yiping is doing now is similar to Feng Zhenchang, he is also cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks for dinner.

Of course, the reason why he couldn't go home was naturally because of Huang Jingping's big belly.

"Oh," Mei Qiuping said disappointedly. "Then you should also be careful, and try not to fly as much as possible when you go far away,"

"I remember, Mom," Feng Yiping didn't want to explain to his mother. After 911 trouble, now here, even taking the flying dog bus, you have to provide identification, and in terms of aviation, you have made the most improvements, and it should be the safest.

Seeing that Mei Qiuping put down the phone a little listlessly, Feng Zhenchang said, "I'll just say, at this time, are you okay to let them sit on the plane for such a long time?" Besides, they don't often send CDs back, and you really care about the meal in the Chinese New Year's Eve,"

Mei Qiuping, who was a little depressed, just found the air outlet, "I can't tell you clearly!"

Feng Yiping has not been with him for the New Year for the first time since he was a child, and he is still accompanied by his girlfriend, as a mother, she has a very complicated heart.

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Springfield, the capital of Illinois.

If this name is still a little unfamiliar, then it is another translation that most people may be familiar with - Springfield.

Anyone who loves military affairs will know that the Springfield-style rifles that the United States was equipped with before and after World War I were produced in the arsenal in Springfield City.

In other words, Feng Yiping always thought that this rifle was designed by a Japanese designer, and at that time he thought that the United States was really atmospheric, and when racial discrimination was so serious at that time, he was happy to use such a name to name the main equipment.

Knowing that now he knows that his original self really thinks too much!

In the United States, it was "SpringField", and later in Hong Kong, according to the combination of this word, "Springfield" and "Field" literally translated, it became "Springfield", referred to as "Springfield".

However, this spring field is not another spring field.

This is another place worth criticizing in the United States, which is too lazy and casual when choosing a place name, and some directly use the original British place name, and only add a new in front of it to show the difference, such as New York, NewJersey.

The consequence of this casual consequence is that there are many places with multiple names, almost half of the states, there is a place called Springfield, the springfield that produces rifles, is an industrial city in Massachusetts, and this Springfield, famous place, is because it is the hometown of President Lincoln.

In Chinese terms, "the face is like Gao Gu" -- in fact, he is a very hurried and somewhat scary president, and he is one of the three greatest presidents in American history.

"I think in the history of the world, because of the emancipation proclamation, he should also be a great historical figure," Comrade Obama, who is still in his infancy, told Feng Yiping in the Lincoln Deeds Museum at Lincoln's former residence.

For example, in January 2009, then-President Barack Obama, like Lincoln, chose to take the train from Philadelphia to Washington to take office as President of the United States, and the route was exactly the same as that of Lincoln that year.

As far as Comrade Xiao Ao is concerned, he does not know at this time why this young and wealthy Chinese exchange student, who has only a one-sided relationship, is so interested in him, and has been in contact with him since then, and is very supportive of his candidacy for other public offices, because he said, "As long as you need it, I will definitely provide you with campaign funds."

"Yes, to be honest, Jefferson and Washington are too far away from now, I don't know, among the previous presidents of the United States, the one I admire the most is also President Lincoln," looking at this person in China, whose portrait can be hung directly on the door as a door god to ward off evil spirits, Feng Yiping said, "He not only abolished slavery, but also dared to decisively launch a war in such a grim situation, and he was really a very good and outstanding leader." ”

To impress Comrade Xiao Ohei, those superficial praises are meaningless, if you want to say something, you have to say something in-depth.

Sure enough, Obama's words were highly endorsed by Obama, "Yes, the situation he faced during his term of office was as dire as it was when he was founded." ”

In fact, Feng Yiping really hoped that the president at that time was a person with average qualifications, so if the United States would have a similar Northern and Southern Dynasties in our feudal era, and then from time to time there would be some contradictions over the flow of territory and people, so how good would it be, then how could it have the energy to worry about other parts of the world.

Feng Yiping also has a sentence to say, in the future presidency, although you have not made any great achievements, Comrade Xiaoao, as the first black president of the United States, you will also be remembered by future generations.

The gentlemen visited and chatted outside, the women stayed at home, and the future first lady Michelle came home from the law firm to help take care of Huang Jingping, which was really cared for, how to say, not on her big belly, but also on the little guy's father in her big belly, to be exact, for the sake of the little guy's father's money in the belly.

In the evening, the Obama family entertained these two enthusiastic foreign young people with a family dinner, and the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves during the banquet, Obama still wants to run for the state senate next year, although he is not worried about competition from any opponent, but as long as it is a campaign, it will inevitably cost money, and the two sitting in front of him are the financial masters.

And Feng Yiping sighed a little emotionally, after the last seven or eight years, it is not easy to go through the house like this again, talk to the Obama family, pinch the little face of Mary, who was born on Independence Day in 98, and tease Sasha who is still in infancy.

Although there were some doubts in his heart, at the table, Obama didn't ask why, he was not even a federal senator at this time, Feng Yiping and his friendship, although he was a little surprised, but he didn't have to worry about anything.

Looking at the two happy, youthful young men, Obama, who was already forty, raised his glass, "Cheers to our acquaintance!"

"Cheers to our tomorrow, to our children," Mr. Feng said.

"Uncle, will you bring your aunt's children to visit us every Christmas?" asked Maria, blinking.

Feng Yiping brought her a lot of chic gadgets, and a few months later, Huang Jingping, who is about to become a mother, is very full of maternal love at this time, and when she gets along with her, in Maria's own words, "It's better than my mother to me!"

So for these two generous, young, sunny, funny...... 's uncle and aunt, she likes it very much, and she can also feel that her parents also like these two people.

"No,"

Seeing her pout, Feng Yiping added with a smile, "Unless you call us brother and sister,"

In other words, I am only one year older than the twentieth year, is it appropriate to call me uncle?

Maria immediately became happy, and then, looking at Huang Jingping's big belly, she said loudly, "But, you are all about to have a baby!"

is worthy of being a lawyer's daughter, and will focus on the key points.

These words made Feng Yiping and the two of them, especially Huang Jingping, very embarrassed, that is, in a blink of an eye, they were already people who were about to become parents, they were tender, and in the eyes of outsiders, they were all pretending to be tender.

This will make Feng Yiping really difficult to say other things, and if he doesn't do it well, it will have a bad impact on children, for example, early love - oh, this doesn't seem to exist in the United States, early pregnancy - this must be a bit serious in the United States.

Fortunately, those who can become presidents have high emotional intelligence, and Obama hurriedly broke the siege, "Then call him little uncle,"

It seems that your emotional intelligence is quite limited, and that is also an uncle, comrade!) )