[HPFGU-OTChatter] Lessons for Dolores

[Mary Jennings]

  Shaun wrote:
   
  >>>Anyway, while we were talking I reminded her of a punishment she 
gave me once when I had completed a piece of homework. She made me 
write out one a passage from Shakespeare in my best handwriting - 
backwards (with the promise that if I made a single mistake I would 
be sent to my Form Master for something far worse).  

Em ot kcab emoc ti llit esuap tsum I dna 
Rasaec htiw ereht niffoc eht ni si treah ym  

It's actually quite difficult. <<< 

As a left-hander I can literally write that backwards, though it's not that neat.  When I was young an older left-handed cousin showed me how easy it is for us to write backwards, since most of the world is backwards for us southpaws anyway.
   
  At the convent school I attended one of the worst detentions was from an English teacher who, if a student forgot to do homework or brought the wrong textbook to class, would make the student copy out the dictionary starting with the word "organise" (in case you're wondering, I had to do this about four times.  I don't recommend it).  Even worse was the detention handed out by a Jesuit teacher at my brothers' school; this man would make the whole class copy out a set number of pages from the phone book (this was in Montreal) and when the boys finally finished and handed the copied pages in this teacher would literally laugh in their faces as he ripped the pages up and threw them in the bin.  Not quite a magic quill cutting into the skin but not far from it, either IMO.
   
  Mary Ann, who landed enough detentions one year to earn herself a Saturday Morning Penance (detention in a Saturday morning in full uniform.  Me, a trouble-maker? ;) )

		
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