I almost forgot to talk about the most interesting part of my day on Monday. We made a stop at this hospitality school because Siya needed to talk to someone there. While he was in his meeting Jess, Will, and I hung out with some students who were on a break. They attend this school for a year. Half of the year is spent in the classroom learning about management, cooking, etc. The other half is spent working at the school café working and running it. It is a pretty cool program and one of the students is an ex-GRS coach. We started out chatting just about where we were from and school and a trip they were planning to go camping in the bush. The teacher left not too long after to go do something and the students, around our age, opened up a lot more. They started asking us all sorts of questions about the US - How Afghanistan started? How big it actually is? Etc. Then they really started rolling on the conspiracy theories they had heard. I'll list a few:
- George W. Bush was behind 9/11
- Obama is a puppet for George W. Bush
- Lady Gaga is a satanist and is trying to ruin America
- Rihanna, Jay-Z, and Beyonce are part of the illuminati
It was interesting to hear the things some people hear and believe about the US and our culture. We explained that people like Rihanna and Lady Gaga are popular, but not influential.
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