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"True Confessions of an American Waif: Amber's Awesome Journal of Unique Observations on the Occasion of Her European Travels"
from Schaum, issue #2
Excerpt:
1. In America, we have inalienable rights, which we learned all about in government class, and Awesome American Right #19 is the one that says I get to go to Europe after high school graduation!!! Because I worked Really hard and got good grades and got into a Good College (Go State!) okay a state college, but a good one that the brochure says is "working hard to attract the best students after years of total suckage," yay! I paid my dues doing community service, so now I get to travel to Good Places, not to a Salvadoran village where I have to dig a ditch to build a latrine, but to places where I don't have to help anyone and where there are no children with sad eyes and no skinny cattle. Because, y'know, I checked THAT box. My parents said, "Time to do something for yourself, Amber! Time for the world to give back to YOU a little bit!" Because when I start college in September, it will be all nose to the grindstone. This trip will Prepare me for school. My parents said, "Cultural knowledge!" and "Language skills" and "Independence!" |
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