This past Thursday we seniors took our Spanish midterm, undoubtedly like most other students of Spanish did. I have Spanish second hour, and my first hour teacher had let us out a little bit early that day, so I managed to arrive just before Sra. Riggs let her first hour class leave. Not aware of this, I walked in to Sra. asking me to wait outside. I did, but not before I noticed something surprising: there was a huge poster of Robert Pattinson on the whiteboard, staring blank-eyed at the students hurrying to finish their tests. Both interested and mildly creeped out, I waited until the class was let go to enter and ask her about it. What she said was lost to me among a flurry of rapid-fire Spanish, midterm preparation and quickly departing first hour students. Still having almost ten minutes before class started, I went up to the board and wrote CEDRIC DIGGORY! in big letters next to the poster. Before I knew it, it was time to start the test. I tried to get an answer from Sra. a couple more times that day, but each was either 1) hushed and incomplete due to the tests still in progress, 2) made to seem less important by the prospect of getting to lunch on time, or 3) all of the above.
The next day, I decided to try again. I found her talking to a group of students in the hallway, and I thought I heard a word or two relating to the poster, so I stopped to listen. It turns out they were discussing it, and as the students dissipated I was able to get some direct information. Here's what I found out:
There had been a tutoring session the previous day after school. Apparently someone in the session (either the tutors or the tutored, this fact is unknown) had left the poster there on the whiteboard for her to find. She thought the concept of Robert Pattinson staring at us while we tried to focus on our midterms was funny, (which, I must admit, it really is when you think about it, and besides it didn't affect the actual test; we all forgot about it once we got started), so she decided to leave it up. I believe her words were something like, "Es un poco de diversión para mí, nada más."
She also pointed out that she observed two very distinct reactions, with students tending toward the extremes and very rarely staying in the middle. They either stared at him open-mouthed for a moment and proclaimed how incredibly cute he was, or loudly protested, claiming that it would be impossible to take the midterm with a vampire staring them in the face. On a related note, it is unknown who was responsible for the talk bubble which appeared later saying, "Soy el más sexy de todos."
P.S. I'm working on getting a picture of this one; I'll post it soon if I can, but no guarantees.
A new thing
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I started a new thing where I relay my husband's strong opinions about
consumer products. It's called Justin's Opinions.
So far there are posts about coffee...
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1 comment:
aiman and i went in there after school and wrote a word bubble that said "i'm going to eat your babies"
we have pictures...
-cat
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