I always was very rebellious as a teen, and liked to check what the limits were in every aspect of life.

I went to a catholic school in country, and if you ever been in this country, you KNOW that they were bad at english. So much so, that even professors speak with the thickest local accent. Now in this country the professors are actually super strict. They are always ready to beat you down morally if you fk up.

This is where I come in. I always was good at english, having mostly grown up on american tv and shows, interacting with english speaking ppl as friends offline or online, and even have a midwestern accent. No one really bothered me in this subject, so it usually goes like this: my friends (terrible at english) would come up to me for assignments+projects, and I carried them in exchange for some favors. Most of the load took like an half an hour tops, so it was a fair exchange, and I was getting Wow gold, food and homework for other lessons.

However they did not know how much of a terribly bad deal they got from me.

We had an assignment, and the assignment was “make a realistic journalistic cover”. Thats it. Honestly, we were given too much time to do this assignment, and I was bored.

I decided, after explaining to the group what the british newspaper “the sun” does, to ask my professor if it was ok to make a tabloïd.

She said yes.

So, we carefully crafted the worst possible photoshop montage mostly about famous ppl of our country, ridiculous rumors happening at the school, some bikini pics etc… The professor even checked our cover despite being an insta suable piece of fiction, crude, and an absolute waste of academic time.

But somehow it was approved.

Then came the name. I already had it loaded. It was perfect, as it would be the true magnum opus to deride the english level of the whole faculty.

We called it Pen Island.

It passed the professor’s check, and afterwards (we didnt know this at the time) was passed to the admins. The admins, being beings of true shining genius, decided to publish the goddamn whole collection of news covers of all the english classes together, and distributed it widely around to who knows how many ppl. (I guess they were proud?)

And there it was. Penis land was front and center, being the most enjoyed piece of fictional media in school, and literally everyone, completely oblivious to the name.

I actually got mad. No one got it. And then… a not so bright friend (but he had good grades in english) laughed a ton a few days in. He got it, I was so proud! So did the professors and the whole admin as well. Apparently that friend has the habit of explaining jokes way to loudly, and someone taddled.

We were all called to the big cheese’s office. Pen Island apparently caused alot of trouble for the school. We all were suspended. I got 2 days. My white friend too. My arab friend a week. My black friend 2.

But fk it was so funny.