Due to an overexposure to English class I thoroughly embarrassed myself in history.
I said Shakespeare's name in the place of Hitler's.
I was talking about how Hitler had to shake the hand of a black man who won an event in the 1933 Olympics in Nazi Germany.
"So the guy won a sprint, and then Shakespeare had to -- did I say Shakespeare? I didn't mean Shakespeare. iswearimeanthitler. I meant Hitler, guys!"
It's a good thing that I can laugh at myself and not be completely embarrassed by my simple slip of speech which made the entire class laugh and my face turn red and me feel stupid and overly talkative, right?
Okay, maybe I'm a little bit embarrassed.
The Holocaust is a topic I take really seriously -- I mean, my grandmother is a survivor. So it was weird and uncomfortable as well.
Fantastic. ( <-- That's been my favourite adjective lately. I need to sleep more.)
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I'm writing a post for Teens Can Write Too's blog chain for Monday.
Yayy.
i had that moment too,,
ReplyDeletei was in geography and i talked about history, which was confusing both for me and the teacher--and the entire class as well
Haha, that sounds a little different from mine, but just as uncomfortable.
DeleteIt's good you can laugh about it.
Good 'ole foot-in-mouth. Let's us all know we're human :P. It's good that you could laugh it off though, and not cave in haha.
ReplyDeleteOh, wow, you're alive! That is good.
DeleteAnd thanks, I think it is too.
It's a good thing you can laugh at yourself. It feels ten times worse when you get emotional. (Easy target for the heartless, y'know.)
ReplyDeleteI see what you mean. I tend to be good at moving on, which I guess is lucky.
DeleteHaha, I hope you weren't too embarassed!
ReplyDeleteI have done this many a time, and since teenagers make fools of themselves so regularly, people just forget. My crimes include using the Irish obscene word for a gay person instead of the word left (they are one letter different), and of course, orgasm instead of organism. Oh, school...
:)
Haha!
DeleteI misuse Hebrew slang a lot around my Israeli friends, because even though I'm almost fluent I'm not a native speaker. I can understand how that would feel.
I once called my teacher "mum". Out loud. I hope that makes you feel better :)
ReplyDeleteUh oh. Hopefully you were below the age of 10?
DeleteWow, I hope that wasn't too mortifying! At least you can laugh at yourself. Me, I would have just sat around looking embarrassed (which is why it's a good thing I can't blush).
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