I am Wookie, Hear Me Roar

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Today, at school, one of my students said he saw something on TV about a guy who could make sounds exactly like a Wookie, and it was just so strange that someone would take the time to learn doing that.

I made Wookie noises at him. He blinked at me, not exactly in surprise.

Across the room, my Star Wars fiend, who has corrected me on my trivia of that universe, starts in on the Wookie talk, and I note that as he's talking, he's making the American Sign Language for "water."

I make nodding gestures and Wookie approval noises, and jerk my head towards the door. The student leaves, making some terrific Chewbacca conversational bits as he walked out.

The Youth Leader was like, "Wait a minute. Where's HE going?"

"Oh, he just asked me if he could go get water. I told him it was okay, and to head out," I explained breezily. The Youth Leader takes this perfectly in stride, and goes back to his paperwork.

I turn back to the first youth. "You don't seem surprised."

"Well, you are so strange," he says matter-of-factly.

"Well, yes, yes, I am." And class went on.