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[snarp]

Also, I did this thing today where we go in and tell the local grade-schoolers about where we’re from, and they were terrifyingly cute. They had costumes and had memorized a dance and gave us strings of about a million origami cranes. I have hung mine up on a hook on the ceiling, but I’m going to need to find a better way to display it.

I didn’t have time to do my presentation, since the Canadian guy’s was really long, but I will be going back next Friday to teach the ten-year-olds of Okazaki all about fried squirrel brains, the stupid hats at the Kentucky Derby, and how you have to swear you’ve never fought a duel before you can become a lawyer. It is possible that my idea of what others should know about my native land is not the most common one.

(Originally published at SarahPin.com. You can comment here or there.)

Comments

[thegeekgene.livejournal.com]

You seem to have all the really important stuff covered, except maybe the bit where it's illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket.

[snarp]

That is not as important a part of our culture as squirrel brains and duels.

It occurs to me that that one guy might not be able to run for judicial office anymore, and maybe shouldn't be a lawyer anymore, because he's kind of acted as second in a duel, hasn't he?