Last week, I posted an entry describing Austin's Chinese visit today, but it seems that I got a few of the details wrong. The visitors were not students, but rather were Chinese adults touring a number of educational institutions in the US. Austin did not have a speech but he did give them a tour of the school, a running commentary on the features of the school, and took a few questions. He told me tonight that the real-time translation of his words was distracting, but other than that, the tour was a smashing success. When asked to describe his Chinese visitors, his brief reply was 'short'.
One life lesson that he gained today is that we are all victims of an absurdity sooner or later and we might as well get used to it. After being selected by the school to represent the Model UN club and entertain his visitors, the school decided to take the club's yearbook picture WHILE HE WAS GIVING THE TOUR, so he will excluded from the yearbook. He is naturally upset about this, but I told him that people are dipshits and this will not be the first time something like this will happen to him.
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