Acupressure and What?!

My favorite part of the semester: presentation week. The unit was on health, and my students had to perform a role play about any kind of alternative medicine of their choice. The highlight of the lot was the last group in my last class today. My last presentation of the week was a group of three that performed a role play about acupressure. Interesting enough, right? But wait. Before they perform, they hand their script to me so I can follow along. (Otherwise it's tough to grasp their pronunciation sometimes.) Now as a side note, many many students tend to copy work. They copy from their friends, they copy from the older sisters and brothers who took the class last year, and fortunately for my entertainment (and yours, for that matter) they copy things from the internet that they don't understand. This group copied a few paragraphs from a website about acupressure and scripted it as something the doctor will say to a patient in the role play. The skit was going along just fine: "Doctor, what do you recommend for my problem?" "Well if you're not interested in traditional medicine, I have an alternative treatment that you might be interested in. Acupressure is the use of pressure points to...." The conversation took a turn for the unexpected shortly after. "And you can incorporate acupressure into foreplay and intercourse. Try acupressure along with kissing, rubbing and caressing...Be careful not to apply too much pressure on sensitive areas like the groin...If you get too excited, don't be afraid to slow down and relax for awhile, then return to foreplay again when you're ready."

I am not even kidding you. These kids had no idea what they were saying, and no one in the class got it either. I was sitting in the front row with my grading notebook with my breath held and tears welling up in my eyes. So difficult not to laugh out loud. I almost thought about asking them to stop, but I let it carry on because this was one of life's moments that is just too good to interrupt. I was in the presence of comedic brilliance, and I was the only one laughing.