Ma'am, yes, ma'am!

Have you ever had a teacher before that just scared the living crap out of you? Whenever he or she would enter the classroom the butterflies in your stomach would also have butterflies in their tummies as well. It was either because you'd always have a graded recitation or your teacher is the kind that was really strict and just wants everything done her way. Last week was deja vu for this kind of situation.

We had our lecture in Ethics and because our teacher was "old school", everyone was very attentive and was taking down notes (well... some pretended). She wanted our undivided attention.

The lecture was for four days and here are a few "highlights" of the lecture.

Scene #1:
Lecturer: Class, why are there empty seats here on the 4th row? This is a waste of resources! I want someone from the back row to transfer here right now!
(People at the back row were staring at each other. Walang gustong pumunta sa harap! Bwahahaha!)

Scene #2:
Lecturer: Blah, blah, blah, rhetorical question... blah, blah???
(The class remained silent)
Lecturer: Class, I am asking you a question and I want you to answer with a "yes" or "no". I want a discussion here so I want you to answer! Don't make me repeat the question again!
(Nagulat kami dahil kahit mukhang rhetorical question eh gusto nyang sumagot kami. It really wasn't a discussion, it sounded more like a court trial. LOL!)

Scene #3 (happened right after Scene #2):
Lecturer: So do you think class....
Eager classmate: "Yes!"
Lecturer: Wala pang tanong class, di pa ako tapos...

>> Bwahahahaha!!! Natakot na di maka-sagot si classmate. Nauna pa tuloy sumagot bago makatanong si ma'am. LOL!

Scene #4 (happened on our exam day and we were all holding our test papers):
Lecturer: Ok class, you have a copy of your test paper?
Class: Yes!
Lecturer: Ok, write your name on the upper left portion of your test paper.
(One of our classmates seated on the 2nd row already wrote his name after getting the test paper)
So sir, you won't be doing that anymore because you were already writing your name there a while ago, did you not? Eh pano kung sabihin kong wag ilagay ang pangalan nyo ? Pano ka na?
(We were all laughing. Ang kulit kasi ni ma'am!)

>> Pano nga naman kung di ipasulat ang name namin?! Bwahahaha!

Despite the military-type of ambience in the classroom, we had fun, we were never bored, walang time antukin dahil scary siya (LOL)and most importantly we learned a lot. :-)