Creative Punishment

During my residence in Vermont, I participated with this Chinese Language Academy. So this year, unlike in previous years, many participants chose to speak English. This was very irritating to the staff because it really ruined the pure Chinese environment. So on the 4th of July, we have a outdoor picnic. As lovely as this is, our place of residence is extremely close to Lake Champlain. Seagulls really enjoy to fly around and search for food. As one can infer, our outdoor picnic attracted A LOT of birds. So one teacher heard two kids blatantly speaking English and she told them to stand in the middle of the quad. The students walked into the trap unaware of the psychological damage that would await them. The teacher started slowly walking around collecting people's plates that had food left on them. She walks near the quad and starts calling the birds. "过来！ 鸟过来! " ( "Come! Come birds, come!“） The birds start to calmly flock towards the quad. The two students in the middle of the quad watch her with mild concern. All of a sudden, the teacher throws al the food she collected towards the two students. Those mild mannered birds transformed into savaged beasts and all of the attacked the food surround the students in one large flock. Over the students screams of terror, the teachers yells "不说英文!"( Don't speak English").  As terrifying as this punishment is, it is still extremely effective. Those students didn't speak English for the rest of the program.

It looked shockingly similar to this scene from Divergent.