Students and Tourists

Today I was part of a 6 person team taking lots of small primary students to Stanley Market for the day. In a nutshell the day involved me being assigned a group of little people and making sure they behaved themselves (and talked English) whilst going about various tasks in the Stanley Market area.

Part of the students task was to go around the markets and ask tourists some questions, (much like an English speaking lynch mob). This I always watched from a distance because the whole thing is done to help boost their confidence in speaking English to strangers.

I was watching from a distance on just such an occasion whilst three of my girls were talking to a couple of very blonde female tourists. I could see there was some sort of a problem and the girls came back looking very down trodden and confused.

I asked them what happened and the most outspoken of the three looked at me in amazement. "They do not speak English!!" She exclaimed. "I speak better English than they do!!! How can that be?!" There was all round shock that a white person may not be able to speak English.

It turns out they were German.

And here is a picture of the whole bunch of them. (I am not hard to spot at all)

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