2 Deal or No Deal

Chapter 2 Deal or No Deal The after-school program? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Not the after-school program! Anything but the after-school program! It's bad enough that I have to go to school for a million hundred hours during the day. Now I'd have to go to school after school is over! I thought I was gonna die. This was the worst thing to happen to me since TV Turnoff Week. My life was finished. "Can't you just poke my eyeballs out instead of sending me to the after-school program?" I asked my mom. "That would be more fun." "The after-school program will be fun, A.J.!" she told me. "You'll get to play games,

第二章成交还是不成交课外活动？ Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !不是课外活动！除了课外活动什么都可以！我每天要在学校呆上无数个小时，这已经够糟糕的了。 现在放学后我还得去上学！我以为我要死了。 这是自电视关机周以来发生在我身上的最糟糕的事情。 我的生命结束了。“你就不能把我的眼珠戳出来，而不是送我去参加课外活动吗？”我问妈妈。 “那样会更有趣。”“课外活动会很有趣的，A.J.!”她告诉我。 “你可以玩游戏，

sing songs, make projects, and be with your friends. That's got to be better than sitting around the house watching TV after school." "I like sitting around the house watching TV after school!" I told her. "What could be better than sitting around the house watching TV?" No matter what I said, I couldn't talk her out of it. My mom was going back to work, and I had to be in the after-school program. When I met up with my friends walking to school on Friday morning, I could tell they were all depressed. "I guess you heard the bad news," said Michael, who never ties his shoes. "Yeah," said Ryan, who will eat anything, even stuff that isn't food. "Starting today, we have to go to the after-school program."

唱歌，做项目，和你的朋友在一起。 这总比放学后坐在家里看电视要好。” “我喜欢放学后坐在家里看电视！”我告诉了她。 “还有什么比坐在家里看电视更好的呢？”不管我说什么，我都无法说服她。 我妈妈要回去工作了，我得参加课外活动。 周五早上，当我在去学校的路上遇到我的朋友们时，我可以看出他们都很沮丧。 “我想你听到了坏消息，”从不系鞋带的迈克尔说。 “是啊，”瑞恩说，他什么都吃，甚至不是食物的东西。 “从今天开始，我们得去参加课外活动。”

"This is horrible," said Neil, who we call the nude kid even though he wears clothes. "This is the worst day of my life." "Our lives are over," I said. "Bummer in the summer." That's when Andrea Young, this annoying girl with curly brown hair, came skipping down the street. She was with her crybaby friend Emily. "Did you hear the news?" Andrea said, all excited. "Our moms are starting a catering business! And we're going to be in the after-school program!"

“这太可怕了，”尼尔说，尽管他穿着衣服，我们还是称他为裸体孩子。 “这是我一生中最糟糕的一天。” “我们的生活完了，”我说。 “夏天的流浪者。”就在这时，安德里亚·杨，这个令人讨厌的棕色卷发女孩，蹦蹦跳跳地从街上走过来。 她和爱哭的朋友艾米丽在一起。 “你听到那个消息了吗？”安德烈兴奋地说。 “我们的妈妈开始做餐饮生意了！”我们要参加课外活动了！”

Ugh! Not only did I have to go to school after school, but I had to go to school after school with Little Miss Know-It-All Andrea. It was definitely the worst day in the history of the world. I was in a bad mood all day long. I couldn't concentrate on anything my teacher, Mr. Granite, was saying. All I could think about was the after-school program. Just before the three-o'clock bell rang, we had to go to the all-purpose room for an assembly.2 I sat next to Ryan. Little Miss Perfect sat in front of us. Our principal, Mr. Klutz, got up on the stage. He has no hair at all. I mean none. They should use his head in lighthouses to send signals to ships at sea. Mr. Klutz held up his hand and made a peace sign, which means "shut up." "I have two announcements to make,"

啊!我不仅要在放学后去学校，而且还要和无所不知的小安德莉亚一起去学校。 这绝对是世界历史上最糟糕的一天。 我一整天都心情不好。 我无法集中精力听老师格拉尼特先生讲课。 我满脑子想的都是课外活动。 就在三点钟的铃响之前，我们得去多功能室集合我坐在瑞恩旁边。 完美小姐坐在我们前面。 我们的校长，克鲁茨先生，站到了台上。 他根本没有头发。我是说没有。 他们应该用他的头在灯塔上向海上船只发送信号。 克鲁茨举起手，做了一个和平手势，意思是“闭嘴”。 “我有两件事要宣布。”

he told us. "First, please welcome our new health teacher, Ms. Leakey." We all clapped for some lady who got up onstage. She looked really healthy, so I guess it's good that she's a health teacher. "Second," Mr. Klutz continued, "Ella Mentry School is going to have a food drive." "Food drive?" I whispered to Ryan. "What's up with that? Food can't drive. That would be weird to have a chicken driving

他告诉我们的。首先，请欢迎我们的新健康老师。 利基。”我们都为某位女士上台鼓掌。 她看起来很健康，所以我想她是一名健康老师是件好事。 “其次，”克鲁茨接着说，“艾拉·门特瑞学校将举办一次食品募捐活动。” “食品开车吗?”我低声对瑞安说。 “这是怎么回事？”食物不能开车。 让一只小鸡开车会很奇怪

your car." "No, dumbhead," Ryan whispered back. "A food drive isn't when a chicken drives your car. It's when you drive a chicken around in your car." "Why would anybody want to drive a chicken around in their car?" I asked Ryan. Andrea turned around, rolled her eyes, and said, "Shhhhhh!" "A food drive is when you collect food for needy people," Mr. Klutz announced. Oh. I knew that. Mr. Klutz told us there are a lot of kids who don't have enough to eat. "Hunger is a big problem in our country," he said, "so we're going to collect as much food as we can and bring it to a food bank." "Food bank?" I whispered to Ryan. "Who puts food in a bank? Wouldn't it smell really

你的车。”“不，笨蛋，”瑞恩小声回答。 “食物捐赠不是一只鸡开着你的车。 就是你开车带着一只鸡到处跑。” “为什么会有人想开着一只鸡到处跑呢？”我问瑞恩。 安德里亚转过身来，翻了个白眼，说：“嘘！”“食物募捐就是为有需要的人收集食物，”克鲁兹宣布。 哦。我知道。克鲁茨先生告诉我们有很多孩子没有足够的食物。 “饥饿是我们国家的一个大问题，”他说，“所以我们要尽可能多地收集食物，并把它们送到食品银行。” “食品银行?”我低声对瑞安说。 “谁把食物放在银行里？”闻起来不是很香吗