I totally got rickrolled by my students today.
So I teach an older class of 12-13 year old boys in the afternoon. They don’t speak that much English, but today they had cobbled together some words to tell me a very sad story.
One of their mothers was in the hospital!
“Ambulance, Dean’s mom. Very sad, very sad.”
“IV line.” (One of the kids even got up with a marker and drew the picture of the IV line and the mom in a hospital bed on the chalkboard!)
“Very very sick.”
The kid in question kept saying “No, no, is fine,” so I thought this meant she WAS at the hospital, but was fine.
At the end of class I was like: “Is your mom really OK?”
He looks at me, starts cracking up laughing, and says “Is all lies!”
I ABOUT LOST IT.
It doesn’t sound that funny writing it out, but there was something about the fact that this barely-conversational group of kids looked up the words for “ambulance”, “IV,” “hospital”, and “very sick” just to troll their teacher… and clearly planned the whole charade before class started… and I fell for it... just cracked me the hell up.