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realized those guys only really pick on the after- school crowd. So I decided my smartest move was to just wait them out. That meant I needed to find something to kill time once school ended. There are a whole bunch of clubs for students, but I've never really been that interested until now. Today I stayed after school to see if there was something that would be a good fit. The Board Game Club sounded like it might be pretty fun, but it's run by Mr. Nern, and I've already spent

我意识到那些家伙只会欺负放学后的人。 所以我决定最明智的做法就是等他们出来。 这意味着放学后我需要找点事来打发时间。 有一大堆学生社团，但直到现在我才真正感兴趣。 今天放学后我留下来看看是否有合适的工作。 桌游俱乐部听起来很有趣，但它是纳恩先生经营的，我已经花了

enough time with him for one school year. There's a Pillow-Fighting Club, too, but one look inside the room where they meet told me it wasn't really my thing. There are some clubs that are REALLY on the fringe, like the Free Hugs Club that just started up this spring.

陪他一学年就够了。 这里也有一个枕头搏击俱乐部，但一看他们见面的房间，我就知道这不是我的菜。 有一些俱乐部确实处于边缘，比如今年春天刚成立的自由拥抱俱乐部。

It was too hard to decide what to do, so I left it up to the Magic 8 Ball. I walked up to each door where the different clubs meet and gave the 8 Ball a shake to see which one I should join. I got a lot of "No's" and a few "Ask Again Later's," but I finally got a "Yes, Definitely" when I was in front of the Yearbook Club door. I walked inside, and the staff looked like it was in the middle of a meeting.

我很难决定该怎么做，所以我把它留给了魔术八号球。 我走到不同俱乐部会聚的每一扇门前，摇了摇8号球，看看我应该加入哪一个。 我得到了很多“不”和一些“以后再问”，但当我站在年鉴俱乐部门前时，我终于得到了一个“肯定”。 我走了进去，员工们看起来好像正在开会。

I waited in the back until the meeting broke up, then walked up to the editor in chief, Betsy Buckles, and asked if I could join. She said the yearbook was almost finished, but they needed a few more photos for the "Candids" page. Then she said the school would pay five bucks for every photo that ended up in the yearbook, and I was sold. If I can avoid the Mingo kids AND get paid, that's a win-win. Thursday Today was my first day as the yearbook photographer, and it wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. I wanted to get good pictures, but to be honest, kids at my school don't really do anything that INTERESTING.

我在后面等着，直到会议结束，然后走到主编贝琪·巴克尔斯（Betsy Buckles）面前，问我是否可以加入。 她说年鉴差不多完成了，但他们还需要几张“Candids”页的照片。 然后她说学校会为年鉴上的每张照片支付五美元，我就被说服了。 如果我能避开明戈的孩子们，还能拿到钱，那就是双赢了。 星期四今天是我成为年鉴摄影师的第一天，这并不像我想象的那么容易。 我想拍一些好照片，但说实话，我学校的孩子们真的不做什么有趣的事情。

I was trying to do my job taking pictures while ALSO being a full-time student, and that didn't make things any easier. I was hoping somebody would do something really dumb and I'd get a great picture of it. But for some reason people were on their best behavior today. One shot I was DYING to get was Jamar Law with his head stuck in a chair. There was a picture of him doing that in the LAST yearbook, and if he did it again I wanted to be ready for it. I know a photographer isn't supposed to

作为一名全日制学生，我一直在努力做我的摄影工作，但这并没有让事情变得更容易。 我希望有人能做些很傻的事，这样我就能拍到一张很棒的照片。 但出于某种原因，人们今天表现得很好。 有一个镜头我非常想拍，那就是贾马尔·洛的头卡在椅子里。 上一届年鉴上有一张他这样做的照片，如果他再这样做，我想做好准备。 我知道摄影师不应该

influence his subjects, but I tried to at LEAST nudge Jamar in the right direction. Whenever I see a picture in a yearbook or a magazine, there's always a little caption underneath. So when I turned in my photos at the end of the day, I wrote little blurbs so Betsy would know what she was looking at.

但我至少试图把贾马尔推向正确的方向。 每当我在年鉴或杂志上看到一张照片时，下面总会有一个小标题。 所以当我在一天结束的时候交出我的照片时，我写了一些简介，这样Betsy就会知道她在看什么。