Problem Description
Classmates stand in a circle facing inward, each with the direction left or right in mind. One of the students has a ball and begins by tossing it to another student. (It doesn't really matter which one.) When one catches the ball and is thinking left, she throws it back across the circle one place to the left (from her perspective) of the person who threw her the ball. Then she switches from thinking left to thinking right. Similarly, if she is thinking right, she throws the ball to the right of the person who threw it to her and then switches from thinking right to thinking left.
There are two exceptions to this rule: If one catches the ball from the classmate to her immediate left and is