being the outsider

this morning in assembly the headmaster of the school got up on stage and talked about his aha! moment, his moment of awareness. The first was when he walked into the grocery store in his neighborhood in Maui and was the only white person in the entire store. he was the outsider. 

then, during French, our teacher asked us how many bathrooms we have in our house (yes, i'm in french 1), and one kid said 5... and wasn't even sure. 

and then he asked how many rooms we have. in france, the bathrooms aren't considered a room. so when one kid said he has more than 10 rooms in his house, he probably didn't mean including the 4 bathrooms. 

that's how you know you're from a different world. When you have 1 and a half bathrooms, and three bedrooms, and only a living room, not a salle de sèjour, a living, and 60 million sofas to go with them.

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