小屁孩日记

星期二Tuesday

要是我几周前没把牛仔裤扔掉就好了，因为今天上学我得看上去酷一点。我们的体育课进入交谊舞单元，莫雷塔夫人让我们每个人都找个舞伴。I really wish I didn’t have to throw my jeans out a few weeks ago,because today at school I needed to look sharp.We’re starting a ballroom dancing unit in Phys Ed,and Mrs.Moretta said each of us needed to find a partner.

所以今天穿灯芯绒裤子就不合时宜了，更别说是短了3英寸的。So it wasn’t a good day to be wearing corduroy pants that are three inches too short.

莫雷塔夫人说我们得选个舞伴，方法是把心目中舞伴的名字在小纸片上写下来。然后她就把纸片看一遍，尽可能帮我们配对。去年搞方块舞的时候她也这么干过，结果我就中招了。Mrs.Moretta said we were gonna choose partners by writing down the name of the person we wanted to dance with on a little slip of paper.Then she’d go through the pieces of paper and pair us up the best she could.That was the same system she used last year for the square dancing unit,though,and I totally got burned.

我写下了班里最漂亮的女生贝莉·安东尼的名字。I wrote down the name of the prettiest girl in my class,Baylee Anthony.

不过她没写我的名字。她写的是布莱斯·安德森，基本上每个女生都写他的名字。最后布莱斯挑了麦肯锡·波拉德，而莫雷塔夫人就把贝莉派给了我，因为我挑了她。But she didn’t write down my name.She wrote down Bryce Anderson,just like every other girl in the class.Bryce ended up picking Mckenzie Pollard,and Mrs.Moretta assigned Baylee to be my dance partner because I’d picked her.

能有贝莉当舞伴，我一开始还很兴奋。不过之后一连三周我都得忍受这种待遇。At first I was really excited I got Baylee as a partner.But then I had to deal with this kind of nonsense for three weeks.

我估计贝莉不想重蹈去年的覆辙，所以她就直接跑过来跟所有她认为没戏的男生明说了。I guess Baylee didn’t want a repeat of last year,either,because today she went around to all the guys who didn’t have a chance with her and let them know.

老实说，我其实不在乎跟谁配一对儿，只要我的舞伴不是露比·伯德就行。To be honest with you,I don’t really care who I get paired up with as long as it isn’tRuby Bird.