Passed pedagogy. The scripts worked. V.J., who supplied us with books, typing paper, whiskey and... don't think we needed anything else, learned it by heart. We sat in the rear when he was on, and we literally dragged a finger over the lines as he spoke. Didn't miss a word. Too bad he didn't get any question from the parts where we inserted some fun stuff, e.g. "the lecturer's duty is to provide for a working atmosphere in the class (O2, N, H2O, CO2, ...)".
We decided to do even more of that for methodics, just to increase the chances. Oddly enough, we had methodics in 6th and 7th semester, while the 8th we'll do it in a practical way, i.e. hospiting, which means we lecture. As a practice. But that's a year in the future.
VL was quite a slow guy, pretending to be slow to speak, taking a long break before the next sentence. We could see he's calculating it for the best fun effect, the ends of his thin moustache were wiggling, so he was straining not to laugh loud. There were a few memorable dialogs, mmm... like this
vl: so one was run over by a truck and nothing wrong
we: what?
vl: they just replaced the batteries
we: huh? what are you talking about?
vl: a transistor
we: what transistor?
vl: transistor radio receiver. fell, truck ran over it. new batteries. and worked.
He was the first guy to have a digital watch, with red diodes, had to press a button to light them up. One day he was sitting next to me, supporting his chin with both hands, fingers interlocked. The lectures always began at full hour, lasted 45 minutes. Not wishing to move, but interested in exact time, he pointed to the watch with his eyes and asked me "can you press this button?" very quietly, we were in the first row. "I can", I said, and pressed the button while shielding the faceplate from his eyes. Didn't tell him the time - he didn't ask for it. He still could, but that would require an extra question, which would need to be formulated, pronounced, he'd have to lift his jaw from his wrists for that... ah, never mind.
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