https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=1342&p=19784#p19784 ----------------------------------- Visitor Thursday, 24 March 2005, 08:45 PM La semaine de la francophonie aka The fish story ----------------------------------- I'm not sure this is the right place to post the story , :oops: because it's real (believe it or not :bigrinnin: ). Ok. As you may know I'm studying in a foreing language high school and most of the time I'm studying french. Every year we're celebrating "La semaine de la francoponie" the week of the francophonie. There are several contests like a cooking competition :shocked!: , every class make a stage play (in french) and we play it in the theather. oh! They rejected my piece again, not because it wasn't good,(it certanly wasn't :oops: 8-[ ) but because it was too serious for 17-19 years old audience and TOO pessimistic. : :evil: Ok. When I was younger we were almost forced to participate in the cooking competition by our french teacher. I really couldn't understand why she was insisting. The whole class had to be separate in groups of 5-6 persons. The others were very enthusiastic to give a lot of money for ingredients in order to cook oridinal french dishes witch are usually prepared in elite restaurants. :lol: I wasn't so I didn't say anything and tried not to be noticed thank to my short height. 8-[ Unfortunately the teacher noticed me and put me in a group with 5 boys who also weren't entousiastic about cooking. Me and boys? Impossible! [-X But me , boys and cooking Absolutely : :evil: NO WAY!!! : :evil: By good luck one of my father's best friends owns a restaurant. It's not a french restaurant but they do everything with recipe. So it wasn't me who cook it but an expert in cooking. The rest of te group didn't know, they did nothing at all. Now comes the funny part I'm sure you'll not believe in this but it is true. The dish was called "Coquille de poisson", "poisson" means fish so all I knew was that there is a fish in it. But I was thinking about "punish" the french teacher and the rest of the people who invented this foolishness.For the rest of the class it was absolute waste of time and money. So I used my mother's old make-up and made my face look so jellow that it was possible to think I had jaundice. I saw how the dish looks like in the beggining of te competition .WoW the cooker was a pro. :bigrinnin: Then our blue-ribbon Jury of teachers "tasted" all the dishes aka they ate almost the half. Of course I won the first place. :1st: There was no price and the most irritating was that they ate ALL not only my dish. : :evil: So I put more of this jellow make-up and started pretending I'm "sick". ( I do this all the time ). Subsequently the french teacher accompanied me to the school doctor's cabinet repeting "Is it because of the fish?" ( :whistle: )Oh she was so scared... : :twisted: this was one of my best "live performances". Of course there was nothing wrong with the fish. Then I had to go home and take with me what rested from the dish. ( I couldn't guess even witch of all dises was mine!) and I enjoied a 3 days "fake illness vacantion". Later the same day the french teacher called my mother still scared and gave her a lot of advices what to do , witch is somehow ridiculous 'cause my mother is older than her and has lot of experience. At least I have a good memory from my school adventures. :bigrinnin: :whistle: If anyone has done something similar please give me some ideas.