2 - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 0 THURSDAY: Explained . FRIDAY: Before You Were Here A bilingual food fight PREPARING FOR V-DAY While sitting in my German class today, the hysterical depart- ment head, carried in a large bag of plastic food. Odd, I thought, as he plunked it down on the desk. He had a brief conversation with my instructor in German, chuckled, and walked out. Class continued as usual until about halfway through when my instructor grabbed the large bag and dumped it all over his desk. He then began throwing the plastic food items at us, occasionally and franti- cally referring to the flying produce, fish and ice cream as "Mein Mitta- gessen!" ("My lunch!"). Twenty some-odd pieces of plas- tic food whirled around the class- room. As we all shouted out the names of incomingtrauben (grapes) and hackfleisch (ground meat), I simultaneously had to duck flying pieces of brokkoli and eier (eggs) for fear of direct contact. At the end of class, my professor requested we return our food to the CRIME NOTES West Quad card W reader swiped fo WHERE: West Quad of See something that embodies the you-know with the female anatomy Ann Arbor or Un of Mich- while she prodded my body with igan experience? E-mail submis- cold istruments. sions to lhaido@umich.edu. "Your ovaries are the size of M&M's," she said, poking them from front of the class. Being creative in outside my abdomen. "Is it weird I interpreting the insutrctions, one told you that?" student threw his pute (turkey) at "No?" I said. "It's just they look our instructor. Following suit, over proportionally much bigger in dia- 20 more plastic pieces of food flew grams?" in an assault towards our instructor. Artist renderings are off, she He covered his face with his arms said. Ovaries range from the size : while wailing once again, "Mein of M&M's to large grapes. Also, the 4 Mittagessen!" birth control pill causes ovaries to ° REBECCA DISBROW shrink, reducing the chance of ovar- ian cancer in women who take it. Informative exams "Hm, that's interesting," I said to the woman who was using my com- I recently went to University pulsorily naked body for a personal- Health Services for an annual pap ized anatomy lesson. smear, a quick but demeaning pro- People say UHS lacks the com- cedure involving almost complete forting, personal touch of a private nudity and metal stirrups. physician, but I left reassured that Past physicians who've done the birth control has shriveled my ova- Ann Arbor service have kept small talk to a ries to the size of raisins so I prob- er hop, Ic minimum, but my UHS gynecolo- ably won't get ovarian cancer. in prepara gist seized the chance to play did- JESSICA VOSGERCHIAN ing holiday CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES ater leak Workshop on Not-for-profit and in attic healthly living career expo r resident Megan Keefer of the University Flow- cated in Nickels Arcade, assembles a bouquet tion for Valentine's Day. 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