Trop bien ce prof!

This happened last Friday. Don’t know why I didn’t write about it earlier, though.

This year we have a great Chemistry teacher (and by that I mean the teacher for our group) We have a teacher for lectures, and depending on our group, we might have the same teacher or a different one for when we do exercises.

This teacher explains really well, of course, without which he wouldn't be a good teacher at all. But what makes him so great (to me, at least) is that he has a sense of humour I totally agree with. He manages to say the most dictatorial things, with an absolutely straight face, yet not seem like a total rogue (or the wicked witch from the west, an expression which comes to mind :P) I don't know how he does it. (okay, maybe it's with that little smile at the corner of his mouth...)

For example, last week he had given us some exercises to prepare (he does that every week) but there was a change in our time-table and we didn't have our usual Chemistry lecture. So we hadn't learnt what we needed to do the exercises. When we told him that, he asked us whether we had seen certain things, and it went something like this:

him: Have you seen [something]?
us: No
him: It's okay, you don't need it. And have you seen this?
us: No, we've only seen [another something]
him: Oh, that's enough! You've seen this formula? [he gives us a formula, THE formula we were going to use]
us: No
him: Well, now you've seen it.

And here I just cracked up with laughter (inwardly, though ;) ) It might not be so funny written down, but each and every one of his replies were just so calm and unperturbed, he was calmly telling us that no way were we going to get away, we were going to do the exercises!

Oh yeah, and another thing I love about this teacher is that he does mental arithmetic! If he's solving a problem on the board, when there's a sum or a difference (or a multiplication or a division, okay, you get the idea) that we can solve without using a calculator, he does it! Up till now the teachers always ask us for the values...

The one thing I don't like about him is that he corrects test questions on the board before giving us back our papers, and I do not like that! He's only done it once, since we've only had one test, and I hope he won't do it again, but I somehow doubt it... :/

The title means "this teacher is so great!"

For French-speakers, I'll put a little "original quotes" here for the end of the dialogue:
le prof: Vous avez vu cette formule?
nous: Non
le prof: Ben maintenant vous l'avez vue.

[I thank my teacher, S.P., without whom this post wouldn't have been possible ;) ]