Marking break

I've managed to get through one of my five marking assignments for this month. (There were two others, but I guess they count for April.)

This one was another second look at someone else's marks, this time for a colleague at my school and for our GCSE equivalent. It's a standardized test that has been introduced this year and it was fairly easy. There are a couple of marks we're not agreeing on and I'm not really looking forward to discussing this with my colleague. There is one exam paper that gets an A from her and a C from me. Ooops. If we can't decide on a mark it'll have to go to a third person. Let's hope it doesn't come to that. Oh, and the marks have to be handed in on Tuesday...

As a reward, we're going to watch the Eurovision Song Contest and mock it according to tradition. The boyfriend has just made me a Gin and Tonic. Sadly, this year we'll be without Wogan as BBC Prime isn't showing the Grand Prix this year.

Tomorrow I hope to finish the next two piles of exams, so that I can go on a little adventure on Wednesday without a bad conscience.

I'm enjoying the rainy and stormy weather we're having this week, because after nearly forty days of blue skies and sun that's what I need. It's not the grey, dull rain without respite, but rather short spells of rain with great light in between. Makes everything look fresh, sparkling and green.

Cross-linguistic marketing chaos

Bad punning across languages won't get me to drink this whatever-flavoured beer.

( billboard )

Beerpeople: We've got this new flavoured beer. It's disgusting, laughs in the face of beer-brewing tradition, but we need you to sell it to impressionable young people.

Adperson 1: It's a summer drink right? For barbecues? Tastes like lemonade, so it's perfect for people who hate beer?

Beerpeople: That's about it. Now sell it.

Adperson 2: Hmm. Summer. Party. Beach. starts singing Vamos a la playa ohohohooooo!

Adperson 1, 3, 4, 5 join in.

Adperson 1 (giggling maniacally): Playa. Feier. It's a rhyme!

Adperson 4: Only if you're drunk.

Adperson 5: That's the point, right?

Adperson 2: You know what would be really clever? Spelling it with a Vogel-Vau. 'Cause that beer's called V plus.

Adperson 3: Okay, we'll just ignore that the letter v in vamos doesn't have the same sound. The visual pun is enough.

Person on the street: /fɑmoz ɑlɑ faɪə/