Thursday, April 27, 2006 @8:46 PM
I am attending a class at the moment. This class is pretty small, only 30 students in total. We have at thousands of doctorate students in the whole campus, thus it is impossible for us to know each and everyone. One of the tasks that we were assigned to was to write a proposal seeking for funding. After that, we were grouped in pairs by the course coordinator for criticizing/commenting the other person’s proposal.
Initially I did not know who my team partner was. But later on coincidentally I found out that he was just sitting next to me during the class. I didn’t identify myself to him immediately because I was antisocial and didn’t feel like talking. Yeah, of course I am just kidding. The truth is I was playing cheeky; I wanted to see how fast he could realize I was his team partner.
During breaks, several Chinese classmates came up to me telling me my “partner” was looking for me. Apparently we have several Chinese students enrolled in this class, which is somewhat unusual as we are the minority in the campus. So it seemed that my team partner was approaching every Chinese in my class asking them whether I was one of them EXCEPT me. I assured all my Chinese classmates that I would tell him when it was time for that discussion session at class later that day. Actually I was holding myself to not look too excited in my little trick.
Guess what happened later? Just prior the discussion session, the course coordinator had to make sure everyone “found” their “partner”.
“Anyone who hasn’t found out who is your partner, please raise your hand?” (Geez, is this kindergarten?!)
Yep, you guessed it right! My work partner, who was sitting just next to me, raised his hand indicating he hadn’t found his “partner”. I immediately identified myself to him. Hey, I'm here. I'm just sitting next to you. He gave me a suspicious stare. Well, it is either he didn’t believe that I was just sitting next to him or he really doubted that I am a Chinese.
I don’t think this will be the last time of me in confusing others about my ethnicity. And because of this, I can tell that there will be more amusements and fun for me to trick more people. Isn’t this fun, eh?
♥ every page of my imagination
