My students for the most part are an inoccuous bunch, harmless, naive and childlike young men of 18 - 25. Their lives are simple ones -- video games, sleeping, coming to class and sleeping some more.
"Teacher, when you were in America. . . I heard. . . this animal, do you eat?"
The student drew a little circle with little triangular ears and a pig nose, and then mimed pushing his own nose up like a snout.
"Yes," I said. "Many people eat this animal in America."
Murmurs of fascinated disgust and laughter rippled around the room.
"And does it taste good?" asked one student.
I thought of the six bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches that I'd eaten in the 24 hours prior to getting on the plane back to Saudi Arabia.
"Yes," I said. "It's not bad."
3 comments:
Maple bacon doughnuts are a pretty hot food item these days. http://www.baconunwrapped.com/2007/10/maple-bacon-doughnut.html
what's the accommodation like where you are at?
Nothing particularly fancy -- just sort of like an efficiency apartment on the university campus. Kind of a glorified dorm room, really.
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