(The Most Embarrassing Thing About Me) Happy Birthday
It was originally a wonderful trip.
In the summer of my freshman and sophomore year of high school, my school held a study abroad camp, which was a feature of the private school I was attending at the time.
Although everyone said it was cheap, but the cost of the tour plus living expenses for one month, almost 100,000 yuan, 100,000 yuan in the end where the cheap, my brain at that time really can not understand, even if my mother said the money is enough, I still do not want to go.
And, D, my boyfriend, also did not want to go.
His parents thought it was just for fun and not very effective, and said they would take him and his sister to go together afterwards and arrange their own trip.
Our school was originally a private high school, and we were in our second year of high school, with only two classes in a grade, a natural group and a social group.
Anyway, the two of us and a few other students stayed at the school to participate in the summer program. In fact, we went to have a party, chatted with the teachers who stayed behind and had a good time.
At the end of July, before the tour group returned, the school organized a three-day and two-night trip for the sophomore and senior students.
The newly established senior high school did not have many teachers, and our mentors went abroad with the tour, while the third grade mentors went to lead the trip. The school may not have found anyone to handle us kids, or they may have felt sorry for us for not going abroad, so they simply took us all with them.
The tour was led by a third grade nature group class guide, who was my most loving chemistry teacher, and the seniors were also very familiar with each other.
Sitting on the tour bus, along the coast road, I saw such a beautiful coastline for the first time, the waves lapping against the rocks, the azure blue zenith, decorated with white clouds, and a few sea birds flying by, I felt my heart soaring along with the sky.
The girl sitting next to me is a female student in our class, although D and I are in the diffirence class , everyone knows, but after all, in public, it is better to keep a low profile, so as not to give the teacher trouble, although, the teacher has long been a pair on the car as if they were blind, at most occasionally cough a couple of, to ask everyone not too exaggerated.
Although it is said to be low-key, but the heart of youthful love, who can hold back how good, early to D sitting in front of me, from time to time turn to chat, and so on through the cave, darkness, through the gap between the chair and the car window, holding hands, at first, but also with a jacket to cover, one after another after the cave, fell asleep, the jacket also slipped off, but no one cared about it.
The first night, we all went crazy. After dinner, the teacher explained the meeting time and itinerary for tomorrow and went back to our rooms to rest, leaving the naive (and vigorous) of us behind, without any room check, we all crowded into our friends’ rooms, men and women, lying or sitting at will. The boys kept tapping the TV to see if the Rainbow Channel signal could be filmed more clearly, while the girls screamed that it was horny, but they also laughed at the momentary clear and sudden blurred images.
The concept of paradise.
I don’t remember exactly when I fell asleep, but I know that the next day on the tour bus were catching up on sleep, but it’s good to be young is great, squinting a little and a live dragon.
I don’t remember exactly where I went to play, but the beauty of the next night is really something I’ll never forget.
The hotel was standing alone by the side of the industrial road, surrounded by factories, and it was dark at night, with only a few streetlights. The group ran outside the hotel, looked around, and simply lay down on the road.
At first, I thought it was too funny, lying on the road! But when we laid down and looked at the stars, we were so shocked that we couldn’t say anything.
After all, I am a city girl, it is not that I have never seen the night sky dotted with stars, but that night, the night was clean, no clouds, not even the moon, a huge spoon, hanging in the sky, the first time I saw such a magnificent Big Dipper, it was the main character of that night, the other dots of diamonds, gathered together into a beautiful ribbon of galaxies, not to be outdone.
We were the ones who were weak. Under the vast starry sky, we felt so small, and our hearts were immersed here, so quiet, and we all calmed down from our original hijinks to appreciate the magnificent view.
Suddenly, a meteor came from the side, so bright and accompanied by a long “bah”!
Uh ….. That’s a car light!
The driver must not have thought there would be a bunch of idiots lying on the road, but also scared, rolled down the car window, cursed a national curses, and went away.
We laughed together, laughed until we were out of breath, laughed until our stomachs hurt, laughed until we didn’t know what we were laughing at.
The face full of tears, the unruly youth.
The next day, we packed our bags, ate breakfast, and prepared for the return trip.
Before getting on the bus, the chemistry teacher told everyone that today was the driver’s birthday and he had asked the hotel to prepare a birthday cake in advance, so when we got on the bus, we had to give the driver a surprise, wish him a happy birthday, and thank him for his hard work over the past three days.
Everyone practiced the words of thanks to be said, and after singing the Happy Birthday song, we also had to come together to encourage love and shout Happy Birthday, suddenly, the teacher called me and brought the cake to me, and when everyone finished shouting, I had to hold the cake and hand it to the driver, so that he was moved to tears.
The teacher really loves me.
After getting into the car and sitting down, the teacher picked up the microphone in the car and started to talk about the mood of the trip and the blessings for the seniors, and then turned to thank the driver and told everyone that it was the driver’s birthday today, so please give him your blessings.
Then, everyone began to sing the Happy Birthday song, love and encouragement, pop, pop, pop, well, I’m going on!
The tour bus wobbled, I wobbled, the cake wobbled, I grabbed the seat back with one hand, trying to balance myself, I staggered a few times, I was so scared that I took a deep breath, I was trembling, I was walking on thin ice, cautiously moving forward, I was about to reach the driver’s seat, suddenly, a turn.
It was close, I didn’t fall.
But the cake fell.
The whole cake overturned from my hand and hit the floor face down, but luckily, there was a carpet and a cushion, it should not be seriously injured.
All eyes were on me, including the chemistry teacher’s, including the driver’s, who was looking through the rear view mirror.
In fact, I did not know what to do, I could only fumble to save the cake from the carpet back to the cake plate, and the senior next to me also rushed to salvage it together.
For the first time, I felt that the 10-inch cake was so big that I couldn’t even pick it up.
Then I got up and calmly took the cake (pieces) to the driver’s brother, hemmed and hawed and said “Happy Birthday”, and then, with my head bowed, slowly dragged my feet back to my seat amidst the blue faces of my brother and chemistry teacher and the shocked and silent faces of my classmates.
I don’t remember if I cried or not after I returned to my seat. The brain may have been kind enough to automatically eliminate some of the images for fear that I would die of shame if I kept remembering them clearly!
But every time I think about the cake and the driver, I feel guilty, and I hope my brother doesn’t think I’m deliberately touching his brow.
