International Day

[twilit_wanderer]

It finally happened! Oh, this has been the longest month in... a while. Ugh. So tired. So sore. But! It went off!

We scrounged up enough volunteers for the flag ceremony, which was wonderful. We still participated in it, but far more indirectly. (Neither of us were holding flags!) The other troops all had ... at least decent presentations. (The

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[rionaleonhart]

OBVIOUSLY, YOUR SOUL IS BRITISH.

I've been mistaken for American a couple of times, which is bizarre. I use the long 'a'! I pronounce 'Sir Lancelot had a bath in the castle' as 'Sir Larncelot had a barth in the carstle', when I have occasion to say it, which is admittedly not too often. And that may not even convey what I mean to you, because apparently most American accents pronounce 'r's where my accent just changes the preceding vowel sound. I would make a voice post to illustrate if I actually had anything to say and didn't have a horrible fear of telephones.

[twilit_wanderer]

And we wonder why all the evil people are always British when there are rogue British souls going around and influencing the thoughts of others? (Who is it going to convince next? My parents? Actually, my mother's been telling me to spend a semester abroad for several years.)

I think I understand the difference (I am, at least, fairly certain I have heard both "barth" and "ba + r + th"). Just don't ask me to imitate it. ...Maybe they thought you were from northern Maine.

(Fear of telephones is perfectly valid. I dislike them immensely.)