This is a true story. It is too silly to not be true. But you can check.
I am an ESL teacher and I taught English to the Italian army.
THE END
I taught English to the Italian army, they were NCOs, that is working class guys who join the army as Corporal or Private and want to advance to Officer.
They were all as you would guess, smart and ambitious young guys, a little scary, it’s bullshit that the Italians are cowards, they do not have a belief in leaders, but that is something else, never try to intimidate an Italian, or a Spaniard lol. or maybe that is just me
But anyway, they were a bunch of lovely guys and a couple of hot girls. Italian nationalist culture is fascist and Italian culture is also socialist. They really are kind of an old fashioned and beautiful people.
I have lots of stories but the one that occurred to me in the title, it was the end of the course, we had finished the book, I had no more games, it was a course that had worked somehow, we were all just a bunch of men and a woman sitting in a room
So we did songs and then we watched films. And there was one guy, he was very pro fascist, and he just started yelling, I think that it was an anti communist film, but the violence kicked off and he was yelling. and we all sat there and put up with this fascist yelling, and he was clearly doing it because the teacher was a commie, and ok that’s fine, me and him got on great by the way, he’s a great guy and you know, italians are fascists, but it was weird
And I just totally thought what I should have done typing that out. I should have played Bicycle Thief which is kind of what made me be like ‘yes I am a socialist’. It was watch films day. I always don’t take control of watch films day, like as if it isn’t teaching. as if there is not a huge wealth of teaching films and I should delegate that to fascists
Actually that is quite cool. Let’s watch some Bicycle Thief
La vita non e justo
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