Monopoly

I was going to make another post about monopolies (as in one company practically owning the industry), but I'll get sidetracked in this post and briefly post

The scene is French class last Thursday morning. The power was out to the languages block, so we couldn't watch the movie (Mr Bean's Holiday) that we were going to watch. At which stage I recalled the time a few of us found a bunch of old, some practically unused, board games in Mr Smith's cupboard. Including French monopoly. So we (and our small class of 9) played monopoly for an hour. The French version is basically the same, except all the currency is 100 times greater (in francs, not dollars), and the chance/community chest cards are in French (naturally).

In short, I ended up with (among other things) both of the blues (Champs-Elysees and Rue de la Paix) with a house on the Champs-Elysees. The only time anyone landed on any of my properties was the one turn it was mortgaged. (i.e. I didn't collect any rent). Anyway, it was a fun morning, and should happen more frequently.

Lesson here is: Play games during class. Like board games. Not those stupid calculator ones.