Fuddland

One of the benefits of teaching the younger classes is that I can play lame April Fools jokes on them and they actually fall for them. Okay, so I just walked into each of my morning lessons and proceeded to convince them that they had a surprise test, but you need to appreciate just how seriously the students take their tests out here to see why this might have been mildly amusing. Jaws were dropping left, right and centre until I wrote on the board,

Question 1: Have you heard of April Fool’s Day?

Luckily they had and saw the funny side.

Full marks for effort went to my afternoon class for scribbling words to the effect of, “Today’s lesson has been cancelled!” on the board, signing it from the Headmaster, then hiding out of sight up the stairs. Sadly, the game was immediately up because what they actually wrote was,

Today there hasn’t have any classes!

So I sat down, waited for them to come in giggling, then gave them a quick extra grammar lesson to get them back [as well as explaining that they’re really not supposed to play April Fool’s jokes after midday — well, not where I’m from anyway, and they can forget about “When in Rome…”: what I say, goes].

#1

mrtn | 2006 / 04 / 02 – 01:41

“[as well as explaining that they’re really not supposed to play April Fool’s jokes after midday — well, not where I’m from anyway,”

presumably though, it _was_ before midday where you’re from when the joke was played? ;)

#2

David | 2006 / 04 / 02 – 07:07

Re #1: Yeah, but they didn’t realise that. :P

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