Kid Ethnic: 103 Days At Sea: The Hopeful Young Spectator Receives a White Lie, PLUS: An Interlude of Kawaii Overload

KID ETHNIC IS WRITTEN BY:

saleem
who is currently moving around East Asia.

kidethnic@gmail.com

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SEAWEED BREAKFAST
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Twitter
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100JapaneseThings
A collaborative site to help folks (and each other) find Japanese stuff.

The Alpaca Song
I wrote and recorded this for you. Because you <em>need</em> a song about alpacas, don’t you?

The Whiteboard Videos
Music+Whiteboard Markers+Friends=Good ways to spend weekends

The very tiny boy approached me in the yard.

“Can you do any magic?” he asked, in Japanese.

I thought maybe I had shown him a coin trick one time. “Maybe,” I said. “What do you mean?”

“Can you turn an apple into a watermelon?”

“Huh?”

“Last week, I saw a guy on TV. He could turn things into things. He turned an apple into a watermelon.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah. What’s that in the bag? Is it an apple?”

I had just returned from shopping.

“Ah, no. Sorry. It’s a loaf of bread.”

“Can you turn it into something else?”

I apologized and told him I couldn’t. “But,” I said, “I might be able to if I practice. Maybe I’ll go inside and do that now.”

This response seemed to satisfy the child.
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AND FURTHERMORE:

A thing recently placed upon my table…

Wagashi, does your cuteness know no upper-bound?

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