To help us learn a foreign language, it has been deemed necessary for us to play various confusing games that allow near unlimited loopholes and no one ever plays as it was supposedly meant to play. Huh?
For example, today's game was a combination bingo/scavenger hunt where he had to find fifteen different people who could conjugate verbs for us (hey! half my class does that already!) and in the magical right order that produces three lines of five. We were to not go to the same person more then three times, and could only speak Spanish.
Some how this got translated into "find the five smart kids in here and have him scribble something that looks like Spanish on your paper!" This of course resulted in large, panicked mobs of yelling teenagers that swarmed around the Spanish immigrant and one other person I didn't know. I didn't feel like being ripped to pieces that day, so instead of joining the shrieking eel gallery, I wandered around the edges and, for fun, pulled someone out to test their non-existent Spanish skills. Then an epiphany came: the teacher forgot to make anyone off limits! So to test my sudden enlightenment, I asked the teacher for an answer to one. He gave me a, "huh, didn't think of this," look and gave an answer, to which I responded with a smug grin. Despite my cleverness, as soon as I found out that the prizes were cheap, terrible tasting, 25-cent candy canes, I quickly lost interest and sat at my desk, driving away mobs by responding to every attempt to get an answer out of me with the smart-ass remark, "yo no se."
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