Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 421 Coffee Hour
By the time Yang Yiyi finished eating the sour bread, Chen Zhou had also packed his luggage.
Seeing the cream on the corner of Yang Yiyi's mouth, Chen Zhou walked over and wiped it off for her.
"How does this sourdough bread taste? It is said to be a 'celebrity bakery chain' that everyone knows."
"It tastes good, and it's quite different from what I've had before." Yang Yiyi savored the food carefully before asking, "Is this a restaurant owned by a celebrity?"
Chen Zhou smiled and shook his head: "That's not the case. The reason why it is called a 'celebrity bakery' is not that the owner of the bakery is a celebrity."
"It's the sourdough bread you just ate. It's freshly baked every day in the store. It can be called the 'star of the bread world'."
"Oh, is that so? The freshly baked sour bread must be even more delicious!" Yang Yiyi showed a longing expression .
Seeing Yang Yiyi's expression, Chen Zhou immediately said: "Next time we will go there together. There is also a Bi-Rite ice cream shop there. This shop has been rated as the best ice cream shop in the United States~"
"Wow, really?" Yang Yiyi became more and more expectant.
Chen Zhou nodded: "Would I lie to you?"
Yang Yiyi immediately curled her lips: "Didn't you just lie to me?"
"Uh...this..." Chen Zhou was suddenly speechless.
Yang Yiyi saw Chen Zhou's embarrassing look and laughed softly: "Okay, do you want to take a break? Will you still go to the coffee hour that seniors Julia and Mary invited you to in the evening?"
Although Chen Zhou sent a message to Yang Yiyi to tell her about this when he returned to MIT.
But seeing how hard Chen Zhou was working, Yang Yiyi still hoped that he could have more rest.
Chen Zhou replied, "We have already promised the two seniors, so it would be bad not to go. Besides, we just came to MIT, so it's good to participate in a group activity like this."
After hearing what Chen Zhou said, Yang Yiyi naturally had no objection.
The two of them decided to take a break, so they went to have dinner, and then waited until 7:30 to attend the coffee hour.
By the way, September 15th is also China’s Mid-Autumn Festival.
It is a day for family reunion.
So, just as Chen Zhou and Yang Yiyi finished their meal, they both received a video call from the east coast of the Pacific Ocean at almost the same time.
Naturally, Chen Jianguo started by asking Chen Zhou how his studies were going, whether his current tutor was strict, and so on.
Zhang Hongying was concerned about whether Chen Zhou could adapt to the living and eating habits at MIT.
Chen Zhou patiently explained everything to his parents whenever they had inevitable questions.
Although he had already answered these questions from his parents when he first arrived at MIT.
The only thing that made Chen Zhou happy was that this kid Chen Xiao had started to take action on the Olympic Mathematical Competition.
What Chen Zhou didn't expect was that this kid signed up for both the Mathematical Olympiad and the Physics Olympiad.
Chen Zhou still gave great praise to Chen Xiao's courage.
And once again provided Chen Xiao with some surprises about his participation in the competition.
However, after hearing Chen Zhou's experience, Chen Xiao on the other side of the video was still confused.
Finally, Chen Xiao still said gloomily: "It's a pity that you graduated from Yanda University, otherwise I could still come to find you..."
Chen Zhou looked at Chen Xiao, smiled softly, and encouraged him, "Keep doing your best. Who knows, we may see each other at Yanda University in the future."
"Yeah ." Chen Xiao didn't understand the meaning of Chen Zhou's next words, and just responded dully.
The video was interrupted just before the coffee hour started.
This left time for Chen Zhou and Yang Yiyi to find Julia and the others.
Chen Zhou was just about to call Yang Yiyi to set off when he suddenly froze.
He suddenly realized something.
That was the competition subject that Chen Xiao signed up for.
It’s mathematics and physics!
Could it be that this kid signed up for the math and physics competitions because of me?
Chen Zhou shook his head slightly. It seems that he is doing a good job as a role model?
Together with Yang Yiyi, Chen Zhou came to New Ashdown .
To their surprise, the atmosphere here had a Mid-Autumn Festival feel.
Chen Zhou searched among the crowd and soon found Liu Maosheng and Zeng Zigu.
The two men were hanging lanterns with their respective girlfriends.
After the lanterns were hung up, Chen Zhou and Yang Yiyi just happened to walk over.
When Liu Maosheng saw the two of them, he immediately greeted them, "How is it? Isn't this place nice?"
Chen Zhou nodded: "Is this changing the coffee hour into a Mid-Autumn Festival event?"
Liu Maosheng nodded: "It seems so. I only knew it after I came here and saw this scene."
Julia explained at the right time: "This is the school's arrangement. We will use the coffee hour time at New Ashdown to hold a small Mid-Autumn Festival theme party for all students."
Upon hearing this, Chen Zhou and Yang Yiyi immediately offered to help.
Julia smiled and said, "The layout here is basically complete, and with the help of Liu and Zeng, we are not short of manpower. You two, go enjoy your mooncakes now."
After saying that, Julia and Mary took Liu Maosheng and Zeng Zigu to hang up a rabbit lantern.
Chen Zhou looked at the two brothers' extremely reluctant expressions and couldn't help but say with joy: "These two brothers probably never thought that I, who am used to freeloading, would actually come to help throughout the whole process this time..."
Yang Yiyi picked up a mooncake from the table, took a look at it, turned around and asked, "Happy, what kind of filling do you want to eat?"
Chen Zhou walked over and said softly, "It should be filled with red bean paste."
Yang Yiyi picked out two ones with red bean paste filling, gave one to Chen Zhou and kept one for herself.
She also likes the ones filled with red bean paste.
Although the coffee hour was changed to a Mid-Autumn Festival theme party, the overall activity arrangement is not much different.
Coffee hour is the time to chat and communicate during coffee.
This Mid-Autumn Festival theme party also makes use of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Give Chinese students an opportunity to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival and a chance for everyone to get to know each other.
Chen Zhou originally thought that it would be the international students from China who would come to him first.
But I didn't expect that this would be the first person to come to me.
A student in the United States.
This student is also a graduate student in the Department of Mathematics.
One grade higher than Chen Zhou.
However, when this person talked to Chen Zhou, he actually put himself in a lower position.
Just the respectful title has never stopped.
Chen Zhou said this twice.
After all, the other party is his senior brother, so there is no need to deliberately lower his posture.
But there was nothing I could do; the other party simply didn't listen to me.
This also set the tone for students who wanted to get to know Chen Zhou later.
That is, unless your achievements are higher than Chen Zhou's.
Otherwise, just be honest and respect Chen Zhou.
As the event was coming to an end, Chen Zhou smiled helplessly at Yang Yiyi.
Yang Yiyi asked, "What's wrong?"
Chen Zhou replied: "In fact, they are not like that at all. If everyone discusses the problem on an equal footing, they will gain more."
Yang Yiyi smiled and said, "But your achievements are there for you to see, right?"
Hearing this, Chen Zhou was stunned.
But I also figured out some things in an instant.
In fact, it’s not that others want to lower their posture.
No one wants to be inferior to others.
However, their current achievements cannot be compared with Chen Zhou's.
Although he understood it, Chen Zhou suddenly felt that this kind of activity was a bit boring.
Anyway, he won't come to participate next time.
