Spanish is boring. I’ll go right out there and say it. The teacher repeating that Artes is art just sends me to sleep. But, no matter how useful Spanish can be for, well, going to spain, I ind it useful for another thing.
Since Spanish is so mind-numbingly easy the students who stuggle in other classes find this class easy. So they begin to call out answers to show how great they are at this. I’m guessing that it’s some primordial want to be respected for everything but there are sime students who sit at the back of the class and shout out translations to any phrase the teacher reads out. This is really annoying but I can see why a student would do it. One of them, I know for a fact, is slagged quite often for the fact that he is a year or two older. So he tries to feel good about himself by shouting out answers to show that he excels in Spanish. So I hate it but understand it, which I hate. The paradox makes my headbrain hurt!
Another student has started doing it even more than the first. He shouts out literally every answer the teacher looks for. It drives me crazy! But one day, he got one wrong. The word was fuegos artificiales which means fireworks. The student only heard fuegos so he said fire. The class started laughing at the idea of a fire show. The teacher, annoyed at the fact that he shouted out again, told him not to shout out and, anyway, he got it wrong. The student took this as the teacher trying to get the class to laugh at him so he sulked for the rest of the class, refusing to do any work. It was kind of strange realizing how much he wanted other people to like him. He doesn’t seem to care for much else as he is one of the people who slags the first guy the most, impressing others by putting someone else down.
It’s not that I don’t understand this feeling because it’s not like I’ve never done it. I know that when a word is hard and I doubt anyone else will get it because we haven’t covered it but it sounds like French so I can get it I will shout out the answer, just to make myself feel good about this. But I think that this is the same way that some people I know learn as many trivial facts as they can to keep people thinking that they’re insanely smart.
Do people do it in your world, outside of school?
Sorry this post is late but I forgot to publish it. New post tomorrow!
January 17th, 2011 at 9:08 pm
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