The Weird, Wonderful, and WTF World - Friday, First Period [11/22].

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"So next week," Summer announced, as the class gathered in the classroom sim in the danger shop because, again, still not unfunny, it will never cease to be funny, and she was looking pleased as punch as she leaned against the desk at the front of the classroom, "is, of course, American Thanksgiving, and while there's a lot of really weird and what the fuck things about celebrating Colonialism and indigenous genocide, there are a lot of wonderful foods to enjoy for the holiday, and I can definitely fuck with that. Thanksgiving in general has kind of been ruined for me because it's pretty much just a pissing contest between my grampa and our current president, but we don't need to go into that today.

( Today, we meet Sarah Josepha Buell Hale... )

"So!" Summer concluded (finally). "That said, I'm pretty sure very few of you in this class are even technically American, so hopefully you all still managed to learn something about the country and one of its most egregious holiday traditions. Which is also a weird one, because it's based on a very sanitized version of this country's founding. So I guess we'll kind of talk about it and Thanksgiving and if there was one thing you'd spend seventeen years of your life adamently promoting enough to write letters to five different presidents or other world leaders about, what would it be? I don't know. I just wanted to talk about how Thanksgiving's even really the behemoth it is because of the woman who wrote 'Mary Had a Little Lamb.'"