The Anti-Rant

I've posted a couple of rants lately about how much I hate working in assigned groups in my Spanish class. Somehow, I always get assigned to someone who has no idea what she's doing and is far more interested in giving me excuses about why she doesn't know the material than in doing the assignment. Anyway, I thought it was only fair to also post when a group exercise went well.

Tonight, we had an unusual class. We were supposed to work on object pronouns some more, then have an in-class review next Monday before the test. Well, my instructor wasn't feeling well, so we did some object pronoun exercises from the textbook for half an hour, then she handed out a printout of the review exercises and dismissed the class. We could either take the review exercises home and work on them on our own, or we could go into the classroom next door (the instructor had to lock our classroom because there's a computer in it) and work on them together. They're due as a regular homework assignment on Monday. Well, K, who sits next to me and who I prefer to work with because she comes to class prepared and knows the material, and I looked at each other at the same time and said, "Do you want to go next door?" Almost the entire class ended up in there. K and I worked on the exercises by ourselves first, asking each other questions as necessary, then we compared answers and corrected each other's mistakes. We finished in half an hour and were the first ones to leave. Bottom line? My homework for Monday is done, I'm reasonably sure it's done well because K caught some mistakes I made, and I got out of class an hour early. \0/

This working in groups thing isn't always bad.