First in German in my HSC
I did get first in German in my HSC, so that's not really faking anything.

I had never even told my Geman grandparents that I was studying German, I wanted to get my skills high enough for a casual conversation first. They had not taught me to speak the language as they thought I wouldn't want to learn. They thought I'd be ashamed of my heritage (what with the second world war and everything).

I let my grandparents see the certificate and show it to all their German friends in pride, of all the kids in the class, their granddaughter had come first. They had me talking to all their friends in German and told EVERYONE. They even phoned back home to Germany to tell the rest of the family.

The faking part comes in because I'd barely passed at all, I was first of one student, the only person in my class.

I never had the heart to tell them.

Edit- I know it's a crap story but I'm a bit crap myself at the moment. Feel free to ignore me, it'll save you wasting whole minutes of your life and you know you can never get them back.
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Wed 16 Jul 2008, 4:02, 1 reply)

it's pronounced
'ze secund virld vorr'


No problem, really, that's fine.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 16 Jul 2008, 10:28, closed)