Yesterday when I was in town I noticed some Christmas lights lit up and all felt right with the world. But then I started laughing because I remembered I was on the back of a moto without even a sweatshirt and I had sandals on my feet. Yup, I\u2019m not in Kansas (or Wisconsin) anymore.<\/p>\n
I was actually on my way home from a Sunday school Christmas party at the time. We were told it would start at 2:00. We got there about 3:15. It started by 4:30. Yup, I\u2019m not in Kansas anymore.<\/p>\n
While we were waiting for it to start I was talking with one of my good friends. I asked her what a bat is called in Jula, but since I was asking in Jula I had to describe it \u2013 that thing that\u2019s not a bird but flies at night, and during the day it sleeps in the trees with its feet up and its head down. She figured out what I was talking about and asked if it was a \u201cchauve souris\u201d (literally \u201cbald mouse\u201d), its name in French. Yup, that. But she assured me that it was a bird. Yup, I\u2019m not in Kansas anymore.<\/p>\n
While we continued to talk and wait we talked about the fact that she wanted to try to pass the test to get the equivalent of a 10th grade diploma, since she never had. I had known that she wanted to do that and have encouraged her to do so. But today she said that to get any job in the public sector you can\u2019t be any older than 37-years-old and she\u2019s already 42. So before she takes the test, she has to go to the mayor\u2019s office and get her birth certificate changed to say she\u2019s younger. I asked her how she\u2019d do that, and she said that she\u2019d just go in and say that she didn\u2019t think her age was right on her birth certificate. The mayor will ask about how old she thinks she is and she\u2019ll reply 32. Then they\u2019ll change her birth certificate to say that she\u2019s 32. After that she can take the test and, if she passes, get a job. And I think it\u2019s all legal. Yup, I\u2019m not in Kansas (or anywhere in the US!) anymore.<\/p>\n
On our way to the Christmas party she was driving my moto and noticed that I had two mirrors on it. She commented that I really should get rid of one, since it\u2019s not stylish to have two mirrors now-a-days. There\u2019s no need for the right one, anyway, since people aren\u2019t supposed to pass you on the right. Here working speedometers are also rare, and there aren\u2019t many speed limits either. And she made sure to tell me not to learn to use my turn signals, either, since no one pays attention to them. If you\u2019re turning left it\u2019s better to put out your left hand and then perhaps people won\u2019t try to pass you on the left as you\u2019re turning. Yup, I\u2019m not in Kansas anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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