Location：高雄女中高一某教室
自從高中畢業之後﹝啊？你問我畢業幾年了？啥？我聽不清楚你的問題喔！﹞，西西不知道有幾百次嚮往能再次上Ms. Joy Sun總是精彩絕倫讓人垂涎的英文課﹝不是偏心哦！老大的課我也超想上的啦！還有，如果有機會上Jenny的課也不錯…偏偏她就不給我聽！﹞，肖想了多年的不實際又白痴的夢想，終於在這個暑假回台灣的第21天實現了！﹝好險還有機會聽到，不然又要抱著小遺憾回美國了。﹞
這一天到超級有名的母校來，每次回台灣這邊都是必到好幾次的地方，有什麼辦法呢？西西在高雄也只有這群狐群狗黨了！啊！不是不是，是至親好友！不過，大家也知道美國人懶、放假超長、學期很短，所以，西西在五月中回到台灣時，各位雄女的學妹才剛要忙著第二次期中考、學期末還遙遙無期的話，不就意味著我有機會一窺大家上課的情形嗎？話是這麼說沒錯啦！『從老大的教室旁走過扮鬼臉』、『躲在樓梯間偷聽Jenny上課』的經驗也不是沒有，不過，倒還沒有堂堂正正地坐在雄女教室裡上過課…。
就在今天，今天喔，我目送各位英文老師去上課之後，一個人在快要沒人但還是有沒課的老師的英文科辦公室裡閒晃發呆，大約過了二十分鐘後，一個一年級的學妹衝進辦公室來，對著坐在Jenny椅子上不知道在幹嘛的我說：「學姐，老師叫妳去上課…」
「啊?！?！?！?！」
我頓時間還真是被對話得莫名其妙，心裡的OS是：「這位同學，妳確定妳沒認錯人？」﹝事後才知道原來人家認得很準！﹞
「上課？」
「嗯，她說等一下她要上課文，叫我來叫妳…」
雞同鴨講了半天後，才驚覺她指的是至娟老師─Ms. Joy Sun！「啊？！嗯…」喔買嘎！還真是來得讓我有點不知所措。所幸，我的理智還足夠清醒到記得帶上我這可愛的Canon S30，所以，各位無緣的觀眾朋友們，MS. JOY SUN！！！
正當我從教室前門路過時，看著一顆顆轉向我的頭，然後，聽到教室內此起彼落地傳來：「真的有像耶！」
像誰？！誰像誰？！我瞥一眼看一下剛剛來找我的學妹﹝說實在的，剛太慌張以至於完全沒看清楚她長相﹞，我心想，戴了付眼鏡的她，不知道剛剛是不是被搞笑如Joy的老師說：「去英文科辦公室找一個跟妳長得很像的學姐…」
不知道是太久沒有從後門走進雄女教室了，還是人老到一個地步就忘記怎麼當高中生了﹝因為西西有好幾次從前門走進雄女教室的經驗，不是去上課，是去講話，在Jenny的課上﹞，真的，一路從右後門走到教室左後方為我準備好的桌椅的路上，明明很短的距離，卻讓我每踏出一步都好像踏在冰上，是怕不小心踏破這個夢幻般的機會？！
就這樣，在造成一陣小小的騷動後，課堂恢復正常，大家也再次當起認真學習的雄女人，而我，拿出放在抽屜中的課本，也翻到了這一課：《It All Started with a Mouse》。
但是，老實說，不再是高中生的身份，還是讓我很難再次體會上高中英文課的感覺，鉛筆盒不在身邊呀，也用不著作筆記呀，老師說的大致上都知道了呀，所以，少了當時那種「啊！原來如此，趕快寫下來…」的心情，不過，卻因此多了可以好好欣賞老師上課風采的機會，算是有失也有得吧！
靠著超人的記憶，把當天上的課文記在下面：
Mickey Mouse was born on a long train ride from New York to Los Angeles in 1928. His creator，Walt Disney，was on his way home after a disastrous business meeting. His financial partners had taken away the legal rights to his first successful character，Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. As a talented young animator with a promising future，Walt had never expected such a terrible disaster in his career. To him and his studio crew back in Los Angeles，all was lost.
Feeling angry and disappointed，Walt and his wife，Lillian，got on the train and began a long journey back to Los Angeles. As the train rolled along，Walt worried about telling his crew how he had lost Oswald. However，he knew there was no time for despair. He needed a new character that would give him and his crew a new beginning. “But what would it be?” Walt asked himself as he began drawing and searching for ideas. To the young animator’s disappointment，no matter what he drew on the paper，nothing seemed right.
Then，his thoughts turned to a little mouse in his first studio in Kansas. It was a time of stress as his career had just begun. During those exhausting and lonely nights，it was the little mouse that kept the young animator company. As Walt recalled the fond memories of the mouse，his hand began sketching a mouse with big round ears，a pointed nose，and little red shorts. One stroke after another，the first sketch of the new character was finished before the train reached Los Angeles. It was at that moment that the future superstar was born！Later，Walt named the new character “Mortimer the mouse，” but his wife thought a friendlier name would be better. She suggested “Mickey.” Walt agreed，and that was how the world-famous mouse got his name！
Mickey Mouse was an instant success，and Walt Disney’s dream of becoming a successful animator came true as a result of Mickey’s exploding popularity. However，no matter how successful Walt became，he always knew whom to thank. Once，when Walt looked out over the first and majestic Disneyland，he said，“I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing－that it was all started by a mouse.”
老師，我很誠心地跟妳道歉。如果此文一PO出，有一大堆學姐學妹回雄女搶著要旁聽妳的課的話，妳可以開始收門票，然後分我所得的一半！啊！不是不是，若是有成千上萬的人要求，妳可千萬別答應，不然妳的班級可能會變成觀光地點之一哦！﹝其實大概是只想把這個privilege留給自己！哈哈！﹞
節錄並改寫自《西進紐約》。
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