FrancexChubby!NewCountry!Reader

Explaining Your Culture

Walking out you looked around at the festival going on, it wassomething along the lines of a craft fair but much more serious. Thismonth had your most tourism and so the different guilds would beselling on the streets of your capital. So now they were all havingfun, there were food carts, and beer carts as well as carts sellingdifferent things; musical instruments, clothing, jewelry, etc.

Francis was looking around shocked, it was bustling and was shocked."Is it always like this?" He asked and you gave a giggle.

"Non. (No.)" You answered and he looked at you shocked as it hadbeen a rhetorical question and he hadn't expected the answer to be'no', seeing his confusion you went on to explain. "Being nomadicbefore I settled here my people took in people; those that othercountries didn't want, or people who had to run away because of stuffto escape a betrothal, albinos or so called 'witches'." You shookyour head, "we love outsiders here, they bring new ideas to talkand it helps things move along." You said and smiled, "this monthis the most likely to have people come. So all this month there willbe a day each week this will have to try and give all the parts of myculture."

"That's interesting, do you not have the word tourist?" He askedas you hadn't used the word 'tourist' when you were talking aboutpeople visiting the island.

"I do but it's not really a word used here, but most wouldrecognize the word." You said talking with him.

"So what about your culture?" He asked and you were about toexplain when you saw a few people playing instruments.

"I'll show you." You said with a grin moving your arm from hisand grabbing his hand and hurrying to the plywood that was atemporary dance floor taking Francis's hands you started to dance.Francis didn't really know the dance because it was a mixture ofdances from (Country 1) and (Country 2) but he followed you and soongot the hang of it.

As you were a island nation off the coast of (continent) nearest to(country), you didn't tend to get that many people living here. Thatmeant many of the people knew you on a personal level. So seeing youdancing you were a bit on the bubbly side so they thought you had metsomeone and were just talking to him.

Some thought that there was a possibility that he was apersonification of a country but none thought much on that. After youwere done with the dance Francis pulled you into his own dance, theway he'd dance back in the early 19th century.

Finishing you two made your way out of the dance floor. You were bothpanting slightly but everything was nice and you smiled at Francis,"would you like a tour of the island?" You asked and Francisnodded.

"Oui, sil vous pleat, (Yes, please,) that'd be lovely." He saidand placed his hand on the small of your back as you two were walkingyou showed him around.

The island was in the shape of a half circle or a crescent moon.Along the inside of the crescent was soft beach and along the edgewas cliffs. From the two end points there are reefs that complete thecircle so you had invented a boat that was shallow so it could makeit past the reef. You were protected on one side by the cliffs andthe other side by the reefs.

There were several forests and meadows with natural trials, thecapital was normal and there were natural parts that everyone stayed,there was a German district, a French district, an English district,a Chinese district, just to name a few of the districts. They wereall modern with air conditioning, heating, internet, and the modernconvinces and at the same time a lot had farms of all kinds.

You were at the beach that was soft pink-white sand and the water wascalm right now a beautiful turquoise and sapphire blue ocean. As youcame you moved to the beach just short of the waves lapping at thesandbanks.

"What is that?" He asked and you glanced at the sand and how youwere walking a very certain way as you would once every year walk outinto the ocean from right where you were standing.

"This is where I do one of the rituals for the festivals." Youexplained as he looked at you confused as you moved along and it wasas you were heading to a meadow where (favorite flower 1), (favoriteflower 2), and (favorite flower 3) all grew wild that he spoke up.

"What festivals do you have, or is it just the one?" He asked youand you nodded and gave a giggle.

"I have eight, they all revolve around the different seasons sinceI am still pretty self sufficient. I get a few imports from andexport a few things to (country that isn't France, America,Canada, England, Russia, China, Japan, East Germany, West Germany,North Italy, South Italy, nor Spain) but if for some reason (he/she)would need to stop for whatever reason I'd be able to feed my peopleand take care of them and anyone who comes." You said with a grinas he hummed and gave a flirtatious wink.

"So you don't look just strong and decadent, you arestrong and your so sweet you are decadent." He winked causing youto blush darkly and gave Francis a quick peck on the cheeks.

I didn't knowwhere to go from here so I kind of experimented with somethingdifferent. I hope that it paid off.