Re: Dumb dream number whatever.
Alex Suter
>You're lucky. You got to use pencils, so you could erase if you used
>the wrong color. Mr. Acosta made his Spanish class take notes in
>four different colors of pens. (Most of the students had those
>annoying four-in-one pens that were popular back then.)
These are popular in the class I sat in on in Germany. It was
a very large lecture hall with stadium style seating. The
professor at the board used four different colors of chalk,
and every time he switched you'd hear hundreds of four-in-one
pens switching colors.
I began to try to manipulate the switch. The prof would pause and
lower his chalk. If I timed my click (on my non-four-way pen)
just right, I could get half the class to click there's out into
neutral.
The clicks washed across the room, sometimes from front to back,
sometimes back to front. I would click while the prof was still
writing strong in a single color and folks around me would look
around in annoyance.
"It's still red, dumbass," they thought, except in German. Then
the professor would switch again and I would seem prophetic.
Always bet on black. It's the only color I had.
>Has anyone
>ever had a foreign-language teacher who wasn't an insane dictator?
I did, but she was teaching German, so it all kind of evened
out in the end. Even the sweetest, gentlest teacher in the
world kind of comes off like she's on the verge of invading
Poland in German.
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Alex Suter
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