One of my students is a sleepy person. When she dozes off in class I scare her awake every time. Usually this consists of me either A) raising the volume of my voice mid-sentence ABRUPTLY for one word and then dropping it back down (just scaring the hell out of everyone actually) or B) doing the same thing but shouting her name.
Today was special.
She was semi-asleep so I turned to the board and wrote:
"Prae is sleeping, when I get to zero I want everyone to start screaming."
I turn with my finger up to my lips so everyone knows to stay semi-quiet. I already told them before that when we're going to scare someone awake we can't get too quiet otherwise they hear the difference and perk up a bit. So just be cool and keep doing what you're doing.
I hold up 5 on my fingers and count down.
5...4...3...2...1
We all start SCREAMING and this poor girl wakes up and just starts screaming too. The emotions rolling across her face across a 1.5 second window were great.
0 - .2 seconds: *Wake up, eyes open*
.2 - .3 seconds: *Eye contact with screaming and worried looking Kru Adam*
.3 - .4 seconds: *Start to scream*
.4 - 1.2 seconds: *Keep screaming with obvious feelings of panic and terror roll across face as amygdala bangs on all cylinders*
1.2 - 1.5 seconds: *Keep screaming, look around and realize the entire class is screwing with you*
The entire class including myself was in stitches for a few minutes.
Prae was like, fuckyouguys
Just imagine what she was thinking during that split second.
lol
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