The Pen Pal Project
Our Miss Brooks · January 23, 1955 · 25 min · 3,543 words
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Oh, it's Armis Brooks starring Eve Arden. In the years she has been teaching English at Madison High School, Armis Brooks has helped to initiate many projects there, and the results have been amazingly consistent. Yes, almost every one of them has been a flop.
However, a few months ago, I had given our principal the idea of introducing a pen-pal project. In other words, those students and teachers at Madison who wanted to do so could pick the names of some students or teachers in a foreign country and correspond with them.
Well two months of all this goodwill certainly had its effect, especially on Mr. Boynton. Last Thursday morning at breakfast I must have shown my concern because my landlady's first remark was... It's hopeless to try to hide your feelings from me, Connie.
Now what's troubling you this morning? It's Mr. Boynton, Ms. Davis. Is Daisy Enright chasing him again? Every time I look behind me, there she is. But this has nothing to do with her, Mrs. Davis.
It's my new rival who's worrying me. Your new rival, who she conny. Her name's Yvette Jouve, and she lives in Paris. What? Who's Yvette Jouve? I am. Just sit right there, dear. Now get your damn cloth for your foreign.
No, I'm serious, Mrs. Davis. A few months ago, some of the students and teachers began began corresponding with some foreign students and teachers. But what's that got to do with you in Yvette Jueve? Well, I thought this would be an ideal time to see whether Mr. Boynton really cares about me or not.
So I put the fictitious name of Yvette Jueve on the list of names we got from the UN, knowing that he'd correspond with her. But how could you be so sure? After her name, I added French high school biologist.
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