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Unit 6 :  Yoga isn't something you eat! 

“Hey, Robert, do you want to come to yoga class with me,” Henrik politely asked his good friend.
“Yogurt class? What the heck is that?” Robert was confused. He imagined people sitting around a classroom, eating yogurt together.
“Not ‘yogurt’, yoga! Y-O-G-A, yoga,” he corrected Robert. “Why are people always confusing yogurt with yoga?” The question was rhetorical, but Robert answered anyway.
    “I have no idea,” Robert admitted. “So tell me, what is yogurt…I mean yoga, anyway?”
  “You’ll have to come with me and find out.”

Henrik and Robert entered the activity room at their elementary school. They were a bit late and class was already in session. The two boys found an empty spot near the front of the class and joined in.
  “Just do what I do,” Henrik whispered to Robert. “And don’t worry about looking stupid. No one here will judge you.”
Robert followed Henrik’s every move as closely as he could. He wasn’t nearly as limber as his friend, but he tried his best to emulate each movement.
All of a sudden, there was loud ripping noise. Everyone stopped what he or she was doing and looked around to see where the noise had come from. 

Robert’s face turned beet-red as he realized that the entire class was staring directly at him and his bare bottom. When the poor boy had tried to lunge forward like Henrik, the seam in the back of his pants gave way. The tear went all the way from the belt line to his crotch, leaving his backside exposed. It was like his worst nightmare had become a reality.
Later that night he was able to laugh about it as he told the story to his father. It could have been worse, he thought, at least no cute girls were there to see it. You can bet the next time he decides to join his friend for yoga—if there is a next time—he will be wearing pants that are a little stretchier. It would also be the last time that he would leave the house without wearing any underwear.

第六課：瑜珈不是吃的東西！

「嘿，羅伯特，你要不要跟我一起去上瑜珈課？」亨里克禮貌地問他的好朋友。

「優格課？那是什麼東西？」羅伯特感到困惑。他想像一群人坐在一間教室裡，一起吃優格。

「不是"優格"，是瑜珈！ㄩˊㄐㄧㄚ，瑜珈。」他糾正羅伯特。「為什麼人們總是搞混瑜珈和優格？」那是個修辭問題，但不管怎樣羅伯特回答了。

「我不知道。」羅伯特說。「所以告訴我，什麼是優格...我說瑜珈，隨便啦。」

「你跟我一起去就會知道了。」

亨李克和羅伯特走進他們小學裡的活動教室。他們有一點遲到而課堂已經開始了。兩個男孩找到教室前有空位並加入了。

「照著我的動作做。」亨里克小聲的向羅伯特說。「而且不要擔心看起來很笨拙，這裡沒有人會打量你。」

羅伯特盡他所能地跟隨亨里克的動作。他一點也不向他朋友那樣有彈性，但他盡力模仿每個動作。

忽然有一大聲的撕裂聲。每個人停下他或她的動作，四處尋找聲音的來源。

當羅伯特意識到整間教室的人正值直盯著他和他赤裸的屁股，他的臉紅成了甜菜的顏色。當這個可憐的男孩試著向亨里克一樣向前跨步時，他褲子後面的接縫裂開了。裂縫從他的腰際裂到檔部，讓他的背面暴露在外。那就像他最恐怖的噩夢成真。

稍後的晚上當他跟爸爸講這個故事時，他已經可以笑得出來。本來可能更糟，他想，至少沒有可愛的女生在場看到。你可以打賭，下次他決定加入他朋友的瑜伽時，如果有下一次，他會穿更有彈性的褲子。這也會是最後一次他出門時不穿內褲。