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Lisa's Japanese Menu
A few days ago my students at Hyunpo Elementary School on Ulleungdo handed in their English homework. After teaching them a lesson about food, I had asked them to make their own English menus for homework. They had to choose a style of food and create a menu of three courses plus drinks.
Some students didn’t put much effort into it but Lisa, a fourth grader tried her best to create a Japanese menu and did use the Internet for research. As you can see it was quite shocking to see that besides teppanyaki she also decided to include dolphin meat as a main course.
When she realised what dolphin meat is she was quite sheepish. All the students promised me that they don’t eat dolphin meat. I want to believe them, even though I have a bad memory of seeing a dolphin being chopped up in the Pohang fish market a year ago.
After explaining to them that we don’t eat dolphins, I told them about how at home it’s so special to see them swimming on South Africa’s beautiful coastline. Despite the outrage, I had to give Lisa some credit for at least trying to do her homework correctly.
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