It’s crazy. When I was 13 and in first year of high school one of my subjects was French – and I was not good at it to say the least. The teacher gave me every impression she thought I was a scatterbrain and graded me accordingly on my term report. Not too bad considering that my needlework teacher the following year, in Form 2, wrote on my report the words ‘disruptive influence’…to this day I have to agree with old Mrs Noonan on that one. I was very disruptive…
I left a message on Friends Reunited a month back when I saw my old French teacher had a profile on my school’s site – she was young and newly married then – and reminded her about how she gave me a D on my exam and how rubbish I was then at French. But I also told her how I went on the own a hotel in France and become quite fluent in recent years – how ironic was that…?
She replied recently and left a very nice message, and part of it in French…very poor French at that. How funny – I speak better French than my teacher!
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