I dragged myself out of bed early today and came to the office when I didn’t have to in order to accommodate a student who couldn’t make it to a meeting at any other time. The following bizarre conversation is what I got for my efforts.
Student: I need your course on the culture of Spain to graduate but I forgot to take it this semester.
Me: This course is only offered once a year.
Student: I know. But I’m going on a trip to Ecuador for a week so I thought that maybe this trip will count instead of the course.
Me: How can a week in Ecuador count instead of a semester-long course on Spain?
Student: Ecuador is a Spanish-speaking country. And I will probably even get a chance to translate a bit in Ecuador.
It is very heartening to know that a student believes my course can be substituted with helping friends order beer at a bar in Ecuador.
This student is a native speaker of Spanish, by the way.
Now, do I or do I not have the right to feel crabby today?
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