okay, was talking in chat and remembered this . . . . (you'll be pretty astounded, im sure)
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So, the French teacher here knows that I'm a singer and had this "GLORIOUS" idea to take me Christmas Caroling in French (needless to say, it was a disaster - my French is less-than-perfect and I was the only one who could carry a tune, but that's beside the point).
We were wearing berets (and I aplogize if this is terribly cliche, but w/e, this is america for you, no?) and some mexican girls start looking at me funny. Then, one got the guts to come up and talk to me.
"Where are you from?" she asked me expectantly.
"Uhhh.... the US?" I asked, thinking that this much was obvious (the long blonde hair, the blue eyes, the height, you'd think they could sum it up).
"No. Where are you FROM?"
"Well, I was born in Hawai'i....?"
"Oh, you don't look like that - Where are you FROM?"
"Erm, I have no idea what you are asking. . . . I'm an AMERICAN." This went on for quite some time. Finally, another girl comes up and says, "I don't believe you, you look like you're from OVER THERE."
"Uhm. . . ." I asked, "Where exactly is 'over there?'".
"You know, OVER THERE," she insisted.
". . . . . . eurroooppeee?" I inquired.
She confirmed that this was the "over there" that she was referring to.
I gave her the world map that I carried in my history binder and told her to keep it.
EDIT: I apologize that I didn't capitalize the "Europe." I am in no way implying that your continent shouldn't be capitalized. (Just thought I'd cover my bases here

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~Ess~