One of my Korean classmates had a creature he had never seen before on his back porch.
Our Tanzanian student, who lives near the Korean student, saw the same creature. She thought he had a new pet. The creature stood there frozen, staring at her.
Both were mystified. The Korean student took a picture of the creature.
"Well, what does it look like?" we (another American student and I) asked them in the grad lounge today.
A thought occurred to me.
"Was it an opossum?" I asked.
They were both confused.
"Does it look like a big rat? With a tail that doesn't have any fur?" we asked.
"Yes!" They replied. "But it was big."
I spread out my hands on the table.
"Yes, about that big."
"A Possum!" We exclaimed.
They don't have possums/opossums in Korea.
You learn something new every day.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Opossum
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3 comments:
Opossums are creepy. They have too many teeth. :(
Possums are scary! Who would want that as a pet?!?!
No one would want a possum as a pet! :) It was so funny trying to figure out what animal they could possibly have seen.
(When I was a kid a friend and I found a dead possum and we buried it.)
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