Wednesday, January 20, 2010

British school boys

I wasn't planning on writing about An Inspector Calls because I didn't like it. This is the second play I've seen here where the scenery or artistic elements have been better than the acting. It's quite disappointing. However, I will talk about the English school boys in front of us who were quite funny. They were supposedly 15, but looked about 10. As soon as they heard our accents, they were all "Are they American?" to one another and I just bluntly answered them, "Yes." They asked where we were from and we replied "Minnesota, although you've probably no idea where that is." They insisted they did but admitted they wouldn't be able to find it on a map. The leader of these boys was this very short boy who was wearing a bright blue polo shirt that nearly went to his knees. He was asking us the most questions including "Do you have Dr. Pepper in glass bottles?" "No." "Dr. Pepper is my favorite drink in the whole world. Do you like ice hockey? What team do you support? Not, the Minnesota Wild. They're rubbish!" I was quite impressed with their knowledge of US sports teams. When one of the guys from our program mentioned we were from Wisconsin, the boys immediately went "That 70's Show!" which I thought was hilarious and they said that "Wisconsin is sick" which I thought was even more hilarious. They also expressed the desire to go to Six Flags because they had heard the roller coasters were "dirty" which they reassured us was a positive term equal to our version of "wicked." During the play, they also cracked us up because they would laugh at the most inopportune moments. For example, the kid in front of us guffawed EXTREMELY loudly when a woman on stage slapped her fiance and sent everyone around into a fit of giggles with his classmates whispering at him to "Shut up!" Their random bouts of laughter made the whole play much more enjoyable.

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