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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