So our plucky adventurers got to see a fox hunt and were perplexed that the “fox” was a guy on a quad bike (hunting foxes with hounds was made illegal here in 2004). They laughed their heads off when the hunt flushed a fox out into an open field and none of the hunters noticed it.
Back at the castle Sir Somebody organised a black tie dinner for them on their last night, they followed along and appeared to enjoy themselves. Then they switched into their traditional clothing (or lack of it) and performed one of their “custom dances” - fair play to the toffs, a good number of them joined in.
Then they went to the Isle of Skye - as Captain Cook had described Tanns as being like the Hebrides when he first landed there - think that they enjoyed the scenery. On the journey back they came across snow for the first time in their lives and they sure loved that - running around throwing snow balls at one another and marvelling at the stuff.
They were put up in a penthouse flat in London and got to visit the outside of Buckingham Palace.
The good news is that our brave men from Tanna achieved the aim of their quest and got an audience with Prince Phillip (not filmed), they went to ASDA (supermarket chain owned by Walmart) and got kitted out with lounge suits, shirts and ties. They were truly delighted to get this opportunity and got all excited the night before it.
Next thing we see is them returning to their village (wearing their suits etc) to a big welcome, the chief explains to them that PP said that it was not the time for him to return. They show around their framed photograph of them with PP - which goes down really well.
The whole village gathers that night to watch the film of their adventures on the other side of the world and it is smiling faces all round.
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That is so cool.
Have there been things that have upset the "natives" that we wouldn't normally see as upsetting? (Maybe even beyond normal culture shock related things.)
I love watching people enjoy for the first time. Last year, I had a couple of ESL students in my class who had never seen snow. The excitement in their faces and voices while we watched some snow from our classroom was priceless. I was lucky, too. We don't have many windows in our school because of the design of the school and I had them in a newer room containing windows.
rt, The only things that appeared to unsettle them were:
Pigs being artificially inseminated - they felt that letting nature take it's course was a better way.
Seeing homeless people - they could not understand why people had to live on the streets when there were empty buildings all around and ours was a very wealthy society. They felt that we should spend more of our time caring for them than on grooming our pets.
I remember the first time my niece and nephew came over to Scotland for Xmas from Indonesia - the looks of joy on their faces when they woke up after we had 6" of snow overnight!
They played outside for most of that day, they were disappointed last year as we did not get any significant falls while they were here.
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