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april fools day. i never thought the day would be celebrated all the way over here. how do things like that happen anyway?

jack and i decided to play a joke on two of our classes. he was teaching a listening class and i was teaching an english lit course at the same time. we decided to switch classes and make up elaborate lies and then have a good laugh with everyone.

i walked into the listening class disheveled and rushed. i really wasn’t but pretended to be. it all felt like i was on a small vietnamese stage. i told the students that jack had just asked me to teach his class and i didn’t really know what to teach. one of his friends had come to visit him from america and jack decided to skip out on all of his afternoon classes. i stood in front of the room and talked about how irresponsible it was of jack to skip out. i told everyone how disappointed i was with him. the kids ate it up.

we proceeded with the class for a few minutes and i fumbled around with the lesson plan jack had given me. they were going to listen to a lecture and i had them reading a preview of it when i received a mystery guest. i started talking to someone outside and they asked me to come out of class. there was no one there but the students couldn’t tell. i left and said i would be back in a minute or two. i rushed over to my english lit class.

i walked into the english lit class looking very miserable. they had just taken a test and the reason jack gave for having to teach them today was that i was very disappointed with them. they had all done poorly on the test and i didn’t have the will to teach them anymore. jack was taking over from here. the kids felt terribly.

we ended the joke and yelled, “april fools!” the students sat for a bit wondering how they should react. they murmured for a bit and then, after jack and i said, “it’s a joke!”, they started laughing and clapping. they had all fallen for it hook, line and sinker.

jack returned to his listening class and the students were surprised to see him. they had all fallen for it too.

i guess i should learn my lesson and not play jokes on gullible people but it was too much to resist. the students didn’t know how to react and believed every word we said. one girl came up to me after class and said, “i didn’t think you would lie to us.” it wasn’t a judgmental statement. she said it more like she was slightly surprised.

well, i don’t know if i would do it again.