I hope the class does something nice for him in return

In my high school French class, every Friday we sang French drinking songs. After attendance was taken, my teacher broke out his accordion and we sang all class long.

best my teacher can do is punish me for reading in class 🙄

If this sounds like BS to someone, it probably isn't. From my time in Iraq, this sounds rather spot on. They're a very spontaneous people, and if they feel they need a refresher they'll take it. I've never seen banquets spontaneously erupt anywhere else on earth. One person will decide their mood doesn't match what they're doing and will break out their lunch and the rest will see that and do the same. Often they'd just throw all the food in the middle of a circle, and they'd share and people would eat whatever they wanted from what's there. It was pretty interesting.

I like this and I appreciate it, but I also immediately thought of Matt Damon on SNL just a couple weeks ago...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuMFryxHmD0

Just imagine a bunch of high school kids trying to sing along to Le Port D'Amsterdam

Kurdish people are just chill lmao.

This sounds amazing I want this in my life

My french would be much better if I had such a teacher. Unfortunately my french teachers were all terrible.
My English teachers weren't much better, but the internet took care of teaching me there.

my mu3allim only went on rants over the house of sa3ud, whenever possible. dancing would've been more fun. thumbs up!

No wonder uncle Sam hated Iraq so much, look at them, dropping work for something that makes them feel better and enjoy the immediate community! The nerve!!

life is meant to be spent together. dictators have been trying to break the people of west asia of this notion for centuries. in some ways, this continual cycle of trying to break the people of this notion has only reinforced in them its importance.

Hm, now I'm thinking whether Brazil has some old drinking songs like that. I know that we have lots of barbequeue (which often involves plenty of drinking) songs, usually samba and sertanejo

I'm sure there weren't any socially awkward people that never dance in that class at all.

this is not only a "west asia" thing. it happens everywhere, especially in the west. i can't imagine anyone throwing a spontaneous banquet in central europe lol. you'd probably get a meeting with HR for neglecting your work duties or sth idk

absolutely. the empires of the global north who'd send you to HR are who prop up those dictators

طالبة أجرى من العربية! هناك عشرات منا!

i'm not going to pretend i understood that without a little help of friend dictionary. i ran away 10 years ago or so. :)

Makes me think of acting class, where we always started with a brief physical warmup - a few seconds of jogging, shaking our hands and feet, shouting "Wooo-oooo" etc. The teacher always had a different student lead it. It really gets your brain going, and I remember thinking ALL classes should start that way.

and they finally got their chance

lol you don't see many l33t muslims around!

I've had multiple teachers do this. I guess it's a brown Asian thing.

It was wrong anyway lol

The Egyptian people I met were the same: bursting into song at the drop of a hat, lots of clapping and hugging, serving amazing food they want to share with you. They wear their hearts on their sleeves. I don't think I've met a kinder, warmer people.

In my high school French class, every Friday we sang French drinking songs

In my high school French class, the teacher was regularly drunk as hell. It was known by any student who ever took her class, but no one ever said shit because we could cheat on tests with our books open on our desks and she was completely oblivious. So it was an easy A.

I once had an English teacher who was Indian (on a high school in The Netherlands). He used to work for the embassy but stayed here until his kids finished school. He did multiple university studies in his life, like 6 or 7. He didn't speak Dutch. But he wanted to do something he loved until his kids were old enough to live on their own.

Often we had English right after gym class. He thought we were way too restless, so he ordered us to sit on our desk, folded legs, eyes closed while he put on meditation music from India and told us the most amazing stories from when he was young. About his first girlfriend, seeing the first steam train with her after waiting a whole day, and much more beautiful stories. End of the class: "oh by the way, this is your homework".

If you didn't make your homework or failed a test, he would never get angry or anything. But you could see on his face he was disappointed, while he said he knew in his heart we could do so much better, and that he believed in us.

Best teacher I've ever had. Such a kind and warm hearted man.

No one ever skipped his class. Everyone did their best to study, as we all felt he deserved our effort. He wasn't shy to tell us we made him proud, something my parents never said.

What does brown Asian mean?

Yup, they bring you in, and then get to know you. In most of the rest of the world it's the other way around.

Middle Eastern and South Asian people. Maybe even South East Asians.

We had a teacher have a dude from Algeria come in to tell about his life. I @/learned more about the country in 3 hours than I could have in a month.

Personal stories are good teaching tools.