Remember when?

barleybooley

Remember when you were in school and there were ridiculous things that you were made learn off in French and Irish? I had one dreadful one about a Chris de Burgh concert to learn off, we were tested on it and all.
Anyone else have to do something similar and equally as nauseating?

banquo

I never had the willpower to actually learn anything off for Irish. My ignorance had a certain charm, I got by on that.

I once had to spend 90 minutes of woodwork class holding a piece of sandpaper to the wall with my nose for making a smart remark.

Terry

Peíg.

/thread.

Oh yeah. My French teacher was Canadian, but not French Canadian, so I just used to crack up at the accent. I lasted all of three classes.

seanybiker

banquo wrote: »

I once had to spend 90 minutes of woodwork class holding a piece of sandpaper to the wall with my nose for making a smart remark.

Ha ha excellent.

Ann22

We were made to learn off reams of Irish stuff from Peig and summaries of short stories like Leite Donnacha Pheig and An Corp. However, our teacher was a half wit, she'd stand there with her book in front of her and ask us one by one to rhyme off our stuff and we'd calmly sit there with our books open on our desks and read them. She never noticed..I know, I know, we were only fooling ourselves. But in all honesty, the silly woman, we were better off knowing what the stories were all about in english, then translating it into basic Irish. No way would we remember the pages and pages she expected us to learn.

Ruu_Old

Pol was a bold fellah!

barleybooley

My Irish teacher was mad into the Shell to Sea campaign, always great fun saying we'd seen him on the news protesting

Terry

Ann22 wrote: »

We were made to learn off reams of Irish stuff from Peig and summaries of short stories like Leite Donnacha Pheig and An Corp. However, our teacher was a half wit, she'd stand there with her book in front of her and ask us one by one to rhyme off our stuff and we'd calmly sit there with our books open on our desks and read them. She never noticed..I know, I know, we were only fooling ourselves. But in all honesty, the silly woman, we were better off knowing what the stories were all about in english, then translating it into basic Irish. No way would we remember the pages and pages she expected us to learn.

That bitch and her salt. Ruined a perfectly good dinner, she did.

CHD

I got kicked out of Irish, teacher was at fault though and got let go. Rare win. I dont remember Irish in the years before that.

banquo

Ann22 wrote: »

We were made to learn off reams of Irish stuff from Peig and summaries of short stories like Leite Donnacha Pheig and An Corp. However, our teacher was a half wit, she'd stand there with her book in front of her and ask us one by one to rhyme off our stuff and we'd calmly sit there with our books open on our desks and read them. She never noticed..I know, I know, we were only fooling ourselves. But in all honesty, the silly woman, we were better off knowing what the stories were all about in english, then translating it into basic Irish. No way would we remember the pages and pages she expected us to learn.

HA! I love it

I never had the ''privilege'' of learning Peig I'm afraid.

When I was in 1st year of secondary school we had this mental French teacher called Barney. Barney was mental. Anyway, we came into class one day and the 3rd years were just leaving and all their vocab was up on the board. It was all stuff about ships and lifeboats and nautical stuff.

What exactly did Barney think was coming up on the French JC?!

mumhaabu

As a teenager I was exempted from Irish despite being born here, so had no worries there but had to still attend class and often slept through the lessons. I once failed to learn an English poem and drew the irk of my teacher on me, she left the room later (with the class to be quite so we naturally began talking etc.) she returned and singled me out and made me stand for the class, I refused on Medical grounds (I had back issues) and cursed her out of it. I then got detention, and then I had family intervention as we sent legal threats to the school due to my treatment there.... I left shortly afterwards for a Private Education. So I guess I will always remember that incident and the way the school reacted.

tony1kenobi

mumhaabu wrote: »

As a teenager I was exempted from Irish despite being born here, so had no worries there but had to still attend class and often slept through the lessons. I once failed to learn an English poem and drew the irk of my teacher on me, she left the room later (with the class to be quite so we naturally began talking etc.) she returned and singled me out and made me stand for the class, I refused on Medical grounds (I had back issues) and cursed her out of it. I then got detention, and then I had family intervention as we sent legal threats to the school due to my treatment there.... I left shortly afterwards for a Private Education. So I guess I will always remember that incident and the way the school reacted.

That must have felt just tremendous.