The Terrible Secret

We’re required to write a speech in Japanese for this speaking contest the school has. Apparently it’s not optional? I had a sore throat and was feeling kind of gross the day it was due, but nonetheless worked very, very hard on it. When we got them back today, it was gently suggested to me that my speech Would Not Do.

Bullshit. It’s a great speech. Here, look, I translated it for you guys:

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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.

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