Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Who's got blue eyes?

- Who's studying biology? Elena
- Who likes to drink coffee? David
- Who's afraid of the dark? Siamak
- Whose mother is a teacher? Iva
- Who's got blue eyes? ___

Who's got blue eyes? [Kenellä on siniset silmät?]
There I was, wandering around in the Finnish class, asking people questions in Finnish(!), trying to fill out my list. Have you ever been in one of these language courses? One typical exercise in such courses is they give everybody a list of questions, and 15 minutes time. You should go and make conversations with each other to figure out the answer to each question.

"Hey, do you know who plays ice-hockey?"
"Peter. Whose shirt is green? ah... at least nobody in this room"
"You have any other question left?... Who's got blue eyes?" she said, staring at me cheerfully.
"I don't know. Let's ask somebody else..."

Only later I realized why she looked grumpy afterwards. The teacher was going through each question:
"Whose mother is a teacher? Iva and Tim.
Who has got blue eyes? Yes. Anja.
..."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

colour blind?