Merry Malagasy Christmas
Some things about Christmas are the same here in Madagascar as they are where ever you happen to be right now. People do flock to get their picture taken with Santa. The only difference here is Santa has lost a few hundred pounds and is wearing sunglasses. No, we did not sit on Santa's lap. Look at him. He's shrimpy; we would have crushed him.
Gifts can be a little different too. These are the holiday gifts my wife got from work: a liter of cooking oil, a chocolate log and a big hunk of meat. How would like meat for a gift?
Holiday logs are everywhere. I don't know the whole story yet, but there are candy logs, chocolate logs and stacks and stacks of log cakes.
Sometimes it can fun to not know the whole story. Then you get to make one up. Leave a comment and tell me a little story that may explain why there are tiny chocolate fish inside of this chocolate log. Are they magic fish? Holiday fish? Were the cursed by the evil Holiday Pond Queen and forced to live the rest of their lives trapped inside a piece of wood?
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A log was submerged in a pond, and a pig walked by. He happened to be carrying some ears of corn in his mouth. Suddenly, a magic spell was cast on the pig! He jumped into the water, and the corn got trapped inside the log. Coming back to conciousness, he remarked, "That was weird". He went back on his pig business. A little bit of the magic was still floating around, like unused energy. And, like magic (well, of course) the corn turned into fish. And then the logs and fish shrunk and turned into chocolate. Whereupon they were captured and brought to your wife's office.
A former student now at John Witherspoon- J. L.
Dear Anonymous,
I love both corn and pigs...so great story.
As it turns out, no one around here has ever heard of getting fish in your Christmas log, so maybe we were just lucky.
We also found out the seem to celebrate New Year's just as much as Christmas. No New Year's logs though.
Pity.
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