Mortification in English Class
Hello! Today I had a rather interesting, semi-mortifying experience at Zoom-school and I thought it might be cool to share. This weekend, my English teacher gave us an assignment. She wanted us to write a "tweet" about something we're passionate about (basically just a casual, 280-character blurb about something we like). Then, on Monday (today), we were going to private message her our tweets while meeting with our discussion groups of about 11 people, and she'd read it out loud so the group could try to guess who wrote which tweet. Well, my discussion group includes eight teenaged boys, many of whom acted kind of joke-y when we had a video call to talk about a project outside of class. So naturally, I assumed their tweets would be joke-y and wrote a silly one of my own to match. Good idea, right? No. WRONG. Very, VERY wrong. I entered the Zoom meeting today and soon enough we started hearing people's tweets. The first guy wrote, in a rather well-informed tone...
