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Weird Asian Food

So I just remembered this short story from when I was maybe....7? If you've read my "about" box thing, then you would know that I'm half Taiwanese. And for those of you that don't know where Taiwan is, it's a little island off the coast of China...AND NO WE DO NOT LIKE TO BE CALLED CHINESE. There's a difference between us, a huge one. Very, very large. And if you were wondering, yes, I do speak Chinese, but we have a different accent, it's a different language basically, than people from China. Anyways, I grew up in the states and my mom, the alien in this case, fed me Taiwanese food all the time, so I didn't think that anything was gross...for the most part...People here in Taiwan do eat a lot of weird shit and don't waste any part of any animal body. ANY PART, I AIN'T KIDDING! THEY EAT EVERYTHING, IT'S SO - UGH. But for the normal stuff, I was okay with. So, this one day I decided to bring some seaweed to school for lunch. We serve them in little packets, some are kind of sweet, some are sprinkled in salt...you can get 'em in almost any convenient store here. We were a fairly small school, all of us kids, first to fifth, could fit into a cafeteria that had about 8 long tables.I took a packet out of my lunch box and started to open it, getting ready to eat one piece when the girl beside me, I don't even remember who or what she looked like, started asking me questions about what I was about to eat. I told her it was seaweed and she looked at me like I was crazy, then she told me only mermaidseat seaweed. I shook my head in awe and thought to myself, "Am I a mermaid?" Ever since I was a kid, I've been obsessed with mermaids, I just found them so interesting. I remember buying one of those huge books on them, they had similar books on fairies and pirates too, and doing a bunch of research on mermaids. I also watched a bunch of stuff on them, like H2O that mermaid tv show, which was awesome btw, and Aquamarine, also awesome.After lunch, this rumor of me being a mermaid started going around school, it even got to the teachers. Sadly, I went home that day and asked my mom if I was one and she said of course not and started laughing. I was devasted and when I broke the news to all the kids at school, so were they.

Soo...basically I was obsessed with mermaids and for a brief moment thought I was one too since this ignorant little girl said I was. Ah, the good ole days. Either I was extremely gullible or just really wanted to believe it. Thank you seaweed for making my childhood life that much more interesting.

This is only one of my many stories where I thought I was a mystical creature. Until, next time then.

-nicholeisabelle