Today in the Writers' Workshop we were looking at how to write "procedural texts" and instructions. One of the examples was "How to Catch Termites". It was quite an impressive story, and ended with the fact that if you have a "clever wife", she might be able to cook you a scrumptious dinner of termites the very same day that you catch them!
There was also an interesting section telling the termite catcher that he must eat one raw termite as he is catching them to prevent getting a stomach-ache when he eats the rest of his catch later. There is a caveat, though, in case he forgets to eat the raw termite.... he simply has to tie a piece of grass around his leg and that will take away any stomach-ache he might get when he feasts on the termites!
Yup, just a few cultural differences between here and there!
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