Anastasia Krupnik asked open-ended questions br doing a project on her career, wanting to become br a bookstore owner to sell her dad’s poems; today br we did open-ended questions in French Class for br grown-ups - over the hill and almost lying in our br coffins already - br br How to use open-ended questions reverberated in br sepulchral tones as we studied arranging a meeting br on interior decoration and preferred mode of trans- br portation - my favourite subjects - my brain, never br willingly cooperating, exploded; I managed to ask br closed questions br br About paintings and cars, proving myself village br idiot again - flabbergasted to know we still have br to study the seeming preserve of primary school br students - proving that reading children’s books br is the only way to survive adult life; so bizarre - br mere words br br Fail to express the absurdity of deciding what br to ask spoilt officials during an imaginary br meeting with disgruntled French civil br servants…br br Margaret Alice Secondbr br