The record-holder
Children who play truant from school are unimaginative.A quiet day's fishing, or eight hours in a cinema seeing the same film over and over again, is usually as far as they get. They have all been put to shame by a boy who, while playing truant, travelled 1,600 miles.He hitchhiked to Dover and, towards evening, went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep. When he woke up next morning, he discovered that the boat had, in the meantime, travelled to Calais. No one noticed the boy as he crept off .From there, he hitchhiked to Paris in a lorry. The driver gave him a few biscuits and a cup of coffee and left him just outside the city. The next car the boy stopped did not take him into the center of Paris as he hoped it would, but to Perpignan on the French-Spanish border. There he was picked up by a policeman and sent back to England by the local authorities. He has surely set up a record for the thousands of children who dream of evading school.
纪录保持者
逃学的孩子们都缺乏想像力。他们通常能够做到的，至多也就是安静地钓上一天鱼，或在电影院里坐上8个小时，一遍遍地看同一部电影。而有那么一个小男孩，他在逃学期间旅行了1，600英里，从而使上述所有逃学的孩子们都相形见绌了。他搭便车到了多佛，天快黑时钻进了一条船，想找个地方睡觉。第二天早上他醒来时，发现船在这段时间已经到了加莱。当男孩从船里爬出来时，谁也没有发现他。从那里他又搭上卡车到了巴黎。司机给了他几块饼干和一杯咖啡，就把他丢在了城外。男孩截住的下一辆车，没有像他希望的那样把他带到巴黎市中心，而是把他带到了法国和西班牙边界上的佩皮尼昂。他在那儿被一个警察抓住了，之后被当局送回了英国。他无疑为成千上万梦想逃避上学的孩子们创造了一项纪录。
[2008年05月30日]
前几天和某个女生聊到逃学，想起这篇文章来。呵呵，“碰巧”我也是逃学爱好者，索性改了Q名：Truant（逃学的孩子）
我的逃学情节是从高一开始的。在那段逃学的日子里，每天一碰到不喜欢的或者是老师监视比较弱的课，就理所当然地翻围墙出去，出去了也不做什么，有时会去上网，有时在河边的草地上躺上一个下午，更无聊时甚至坐上公交车，一直坐到终站然后再坐回来，看路上的景色。
这样的日子我过得不亦乐乎，那时候似乎觉得每天逃课就是世界上最幸福的事了。到高二下学期结束时我一直是班上的旷课记录保持者。
