blending an assortment of thoughts and experiences for my friends, relations and kindred spirit

blending an assortment of thoughts and experiences for my friends, relations and kindred spirit
By Alison Hobbs, blending a mixture of thoughts and experiences for friends, relations and kindred spirits.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Show and tell

One way to encourage conversation in any language is to ask women to show one other objects so precious they'd never throw them away; this is what we did in our Spanish group this morning. There were only half a dozen of us there, but we came from four different continents, and we talked about ...

  • an Indonesian wedding photo
  • a ceramic dish brought to Canada from Portugal
  • a copper bell bought in a remote Peruvian market, probably meant to hang around the neck of a llama
  • a one-inch-to-the-mile Ordnance Survey map of the North York Moors
  • a Taiwanese teapot acquired by a Polish family who'd done business in Taipei

Guess which my contribution was.

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