I accompanied my 70-year-old host parents to a luncheon celebrating the 90th birthday of their priest hoping something absurd would happen, like the birthday celebration actually turning into a secret Jews for Jesus concert. Instead, I got nothing. No exorcisms, no conspiracy theories, not even weird outfits old people think they can get away with wearing but actually can't. NOTHING.
It just goes to show that you never get exactly what you wish for. Except for the fact that they just repeat "Happy birthday to you" over and over again instead of singing the "Happy birthday dear ___" line, there was nothing strange about the music. I chatted with an American man named Father Chuck from California, and another man told me about his days at MIT. Nothing extraordinary came out of these conversations.
Even the food was normal--no pigs feet, no animal intestines, no coagulated pigs blood. The only thing slightly weird was this green bean-filled rice bun shaped and dyed to look like a peach, and even then, food made to look like other foods is not uncommon (ex: veggie burgers, swedish fish).
How disappointing!
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