Sneaky Spycraft: Week 7, Period 4

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

Once the class was assembled, Aly pushed herself up off her seat on her desk.  "Afternoon to all of you.  Last week, we talked about disguises and their use.  Next week is your spring break which means that all of you can run off to wherever you like, and all of us teachers will enjoy our break.  Which means that this week, we have a lot to talk about."  She grinned.  "Yeah, that didn't follow at all, but let's pretend it did."

"Today, we're going to talk about language.  Any good spy should speak at least a few languages that are used in her area of operations.   And by at least a few, I mean as many as possible," Aly glanced over the class.  "Even if you can't speak the language well enough to pass as a native - and don't overestimate your abilities, not everyone can - you need to speak well enough to recruit natives to spy for you and be able to communicate when you need to." 

"I'm pretty sure most of you know more than one language," she said.  "For many of you, English is definitely not the language you were born with.  So.  What I want everyone to do today is to pair up and communicate without using English.  You can use sign, do charades, find another language in common, just no English."  She grinned.  "Why?  Because you all should see what it's like if you don't bother to learn a language and try to spy."

"Until our next class, I want all of you to start learning another language.  I don't care what it is, something that you find useful or interesting," Aly threw an amused glance at Willow if she were there.  "You can consider it homework.  If you don't have an idea where to start?  There's a language club this semester, and I believe one of the heads of it is in our class," she smiled at Inara if she were there.  "It meets Fridays in the library, check it out if you need some direction."

"Any questions?  Then pair up an get to."

[OOC:  Waaaait for the OCD is up! please]

Comments

Re: Pair Up!

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow giggled.

She typed some more, then showed Teddy.

"Hello, world!"

Re: Pair Up!

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

This was even better than AIM!

Teddy typed a little back. "Nerdy spies for life!"

Re: Pair Up!

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow typed more.

NERDY SPIES R00L!!!
NERDY SPIES R00L!!!
NERDY SPIES R00L!!!
NERDY SPIES R00L!!!
NERDY SPIES R00L!!!
NERDY SPIES R00L!!!
NERDY SPIES R00L!!!

Re: Pair Up!

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy laughed, hoping that didn't count as English. You never knew.

And typed a little more.

CAN NOW WE TAKE OVER TEH WORLD?
CAN NOW WE TAKE OVER TEH WORLD?
CAN NOW WE TAKE OVER TEH WORLD?
CAN NOW WE TAKE OVER TEH WORLD?

Re: Pair Up!

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow replied with a link (http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/01/11/funny-pictures-eeeeeeeeeexcellent/).

Re: Pair Up!

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

OKay, they could play this game.

Teddy pulled up an image (http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/funny-pictures-kitten-laptop-hungry.jpg).

Re: Pair Up!

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow replied in kind (http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/02/03/funny-pictures-kitteh-pop-ups-cannot-be-blocked/).

Re: Pair Up!

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

It was like dueling banjos with images, really.

Teddy brought up another one (http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/funny-pictures-spyware-cat-computer-monitor.jpg).

Re: Pair Up!

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow felt LOLcat totally counted as a language.

And so another (http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/12/17/funny-pictures-busted-must-act-adorable/).

Re: Pair Up!

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy glanced around to make sure Aly wasn't payign them too much attention before sending one back. (http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/funny-pictures-white-fluffy-omg-kitten.jpg)

Re: Pair Up!

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow replied (http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/10/19/now-u/).