Makes me think of acting class, where we always started with a brief physical warmup - a few seconds of jogging, shaking our hands and feet, shouting "Wooo-oooo" etc. The teacher always had a different student lead it. It really gets your brain going, and I remember thinking ALL classes should start that way.

I've had multiple teachers do this. I guess it's a brown Asian thing.

I'm sure there weren't any socially awkward people that never dance in that class at all.

and they finally got their chance

If this sounds like BS to someone, it probably isn't. From my time in Iraq, this sounds rather spot on. They're a very spontaneous people, and if they feel they need a refresher they'll take it. I've never seen banquets spontaneously erupt anywhere else on earth. One person will decide their mood doesn't match what they're doing and will break out their lunch and the rest will see that and do the same. Often they'd just throw all the food in the middle of a circle, and they'd share and people would eat whatever they wanted from what's there. It was pretty interesting.

No wonder uncle Sam hated Iraq so much, look at them, dropping work for something that makes them feel better and enjoy the immediate community! The nerve!!

This sounds amazing I want this in my life

Kurdish people are just chill lmao.

life is meant to be spent together. dictators have been trying to break the people of west asia of this notion for centuries. in some ways, this continual cycle of trying to break the people of this notion has only reinforced in them its importance.

this is not only a "west asia" thing. it happens everywhere, especially in the west. i can't imagine anyone throwing a spontaneous banquet in central europe lol. you'd probably get a meeting with HR for neglecting your work duties or sth idk

absolutely. the empires of the global north who'd send you to HR are who prop up those dictators

my mu3allim only went on rants over the house of sa3ud, whenever possible. dancing would've been more fun. thumbs up!

lol you don't see many l33t muslims around!

طالبة أجرى من العربية! هناك عشرات منا!

i'm not going to pretend i understood that without a little help of friend dictionary. i ran away 10 years ago or so. :)

It was wrong anyway lol

In my high school French class, every Friday we sang French drinking songs. After attendance was taken, my teacher broke out his accordion and we sang all class long.

Hm, now I'm thinking whether Brazil has some old drinking songs like that. I know that we have lots of barbequeue (which often involves plenty of drinking) songs, usually samba and sertanejo

My french would be much better if I had such a teacher. Unfortunately my french teachers were all terrible.
My English teachers weren't much better, but the internet took care of teaching me there.

Yeah, my most memorable French teacher barely tolerated us, and at lunchtimes she'd go out and hotbox in her car. The afternoon lessons were much better.

Just imagine a bunch of high school kids trying to sing along to Le Port D'Amsterdam

I hope the class does something nice for him in return

I like this and I appreciate it, but I also immediately thought of Matt Damon on SNL just a couple weeks ago... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuMFryxHmD0

best my teacher can do is punish me for reading in class 🙄

best my teacher can do is punish me for reading in class 🙄

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