the new tricolour flag

with the cp's we started doing colours.

"what colour is this?" i raised a piece of blank paper.

"il y a rien!" (there's nothing.)

"tres bien, il y a rien, donc, c'est de quelle couleur?" (very good, there's nothing, so what colour is this?)

"blanc!" (white)

"it's white in english, repeat after me, white!"

"white~"

couple of minutes later, we were revising what we had already done.

"what colour is this?"

"blue!"

"tres bien, blue."

"what colour is this?"

"rouge."

"en anglais!"

"laid?"

"mais non!" (no~)

"looood?"

"non!"

"loud?"

"non, red!"

"okay, what colour is this?"

"blue!"

"non, c'est pas blue!" (no, it's not blue.)

"blah?"

"yes i'd agree with you, this colour is rather a blah, but no."

"bleh?"

"blue blah bleh, tres bien... n'importe quoi!"

"white!"

"oh~ white~"

i do hope that by the end of this academic year, they'll remember that their national flag is of blue white and red.

not some weird combination of blue blah and laid.