After nearly an hour of waiting in front of the window tinting store, my instructor finally arrived. He’s an average-sized man, with an average face and wearing average clothes. You have to be average in order to be a spy; that’s how you fit seamlessly into crowds of people. If you stand out, you’re spotted, and then you’re caught.
My instructor immediately motioned to two students standing on the edge of the group, jabbed his thumb in the direction of the van, and told them to leave. They were the ones who were drawing attention to themselves when we apparently should have been focusing on the removable frosted window tinting directly in front of us. They’ve been cut from the program now.
I say a silent thank you to my patience. Finally, our instructor comes to stand amongst our group. He’s acting like a university professor today, so he has to smile a lot more than he usually does. He gives us this whole spiel about the importance of privacy as a spy, and then he links his speech to tinted windows. Apparently they not only keep people from seeing inside, but they also block out UV rays and keep rooms a lot cooler. We have to know this because it makes it a lot easier to do spy work when you’re not sweltering in heat.
Our instructor got us all to follow him through the main entrance to the office tinting company. Melbourne has a lot of tinting companies, according to him, however since we are spies at the best spy academy in the world, we deserve to visit the best places for our field trips. After all, that’s what we’re paying for, he says. Unlike most of the other students, I’m not paying anything at all. I was a spy prodigy as a child so I was given a scholarship to attend this academy.