Tuesday, 18 November 2008

Proposal for an activity at Mosaic


Expose yourself
or how I made a fool of myself in SL


When we make a fool of ourselves it is a damning piece of evidence that we are human, so why don't we take advantage of that and have some fun.
I'm thinking of an incident which was embarrassing when it happened but now gives you a hearty laugh when you think about it.

Let us take my story as an instance of how things can turn out.
On a regular basis I meet a Mexican lady in SL. A cheerful lady, very serious in her attempt to learn Swedish and I do my very best to help her. The incident took place when we tried to solve how to pronounce the Swedish vowel ä, which seems to be very difficult to pronounce for novices in the Swedish language. It sounds similar to the English bad, habit and similar words, but with a much broader accent. Well, I thought my head off, looking for a suitable word that could serve as an example.
Then I had it, it was like a bolt from the blue, a brilliant idea, a real stroke of genius: try to say BÄÄÄ, like the sheep.
Silence... then I heard a gentle voice in my headset: but our sheep, they speak Spanish.
Of course not, Mexican sheep do not speak Swedish. How !"#¤%&/& (translation depends on the readers imagination) dense can one be before someone hand over a ticket. For some reason the headset felt very warm not to say hot.

Ok, now we need a volunteer in case this proposal
strike somebodys fancy.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Heimlaga! I love your idea. Let's see if students participate and post (I'm trying to chose among my many embarrasing moments in SL).
    Otherwise...why don't organise a sort of "stand commedy" or how do you call it? A night where who wants go on a stage and makes a fool of him/herself by talking about his/her most embarrasing time in SL.

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