Still working on this paper. I'm a little more than halfway through, for those who are keeping track of these things.
As for the topic of the day, I am quite fluent in B.S. Other than that, I can sorta fake my way through Spanish. I had to take two years of Spanish in high school, and then I told my teacher Senora Ginsburg that I would take a year of it in college. When I took the placement test, it was after an entire summer of forgetting everything I'd learned (which wasn't much), so I didn't understand anything that was on the test. I was supposed to read an article and then answer multiple choice questions, all in Spanish, and then move on to the next article. I read maybe half of the first article and about the first two questions. I didn't know what any of it meant, so I just filled in random multiple choice answers. On a total fluke, I got an almost perfect score and got put in one of the highest Spanish classes they had. That class was even more confusing than the test. I survived by nodding my head every once in a while and saying, "Si" when everyone else said it.
Here's a conversation I had with my Spanish teacher that year:
She asked me a question in Spanish.
I said, "Si."
She said, "Really? You have life insurance?"
I said, "I thought you were asking me if I like ice cream."
I have no idea how I passed that class.
