Please help us find the chicken man!!
After winter break on January fourth, Arabic teacher Lina Al Samawi entered her classroom, and was startled to find 11 printouts of green chickens taped up around her classroom. In her first classes of the day, Arabic 4 and Arabic 2, her students claimed they knew nothing about it; her Arabic 3 section was also dumbfounded. Her first thought was that it must’ve been someone from Arabic 1, since one of its students, Avi Reid ’27, likes to say “green chicken” in Arabic. Avi was more suspicousas he had access to the classroom over break, meaning he could have placed the chickens before Ms. Samawi ever entered the classroom.
Attempting to trace the chicken seed trail, Ms. Samawi sent an email to her Arabic students asking who the culprit was. She played along with the joke at first, but soon her consternation over the real culprit grew. Reid knew Ms. Samawi already had suspicions that he was the culprit. Ms. Samawi shared that he emailed her back, pleading, “It wasn’t me. I swear it wasn’t me!” Reid also claimed that Mason Avalos ’25 told him of Ms. Samawi’s suspicions, dragging in another suspect on trial.
In a turn of events, Avalos had no connections to Reid other than the fact that Reid told Ms. Samawi he knows who the true culprit is. Avalos was appalled by the accusations and the fact that he was tangled in this sinister conspiracy. So how did he get looped into all of this? According to Avalos, Reid is just a “silly little guy,” so Ms. Samawi had to find some other lead in the case.
So, who could the imposter be?
Desperate for answers, Ms Samawi questioned Language Teacher Matthew Westman and Dr. Dan “Doc” Houston for the truth to come out. In the chat, Mr. Westman was clueless but Dr. Houston accused Sasha Diamond ’25 of “lingering” (or venting?) in front of the classroom. Ms. Samawi said, “Maybe Doc [Dr. Houston] wants to play with my suspicion, but I think he knows something.”
Diamond defended himself hopelessly, saying “Ms. Samawi has repeatedly accused me of being the green chicken, but I am not the green chicken.” He is in Arabic 2 with Ms. Samawi this year, and he shared that his class always talked about the “green door,” not the “green chicken.” And so, he believes it’s not anyone in Arabic 2.
Diamond, knowing Ms. Samawi’s suspicions of Reid, shared, “I would suspect Avi, but in conversations I’ve had with him, he’s either a very good liar or just not it.” He doesn’t believe that Reid is responsible for the green chickens in the classroom. During the article’s early stages, more truth was unveiled…
On Tuesday, January 23, Ms. Samawi emailed the writers of this article with the subject “New Green Chickens have been found!” In a surprising turn of events, one of them was found to be placed at Avi’s desk.