Today we had an assembly to celebrate Reading Month at school. The middle school classes all prepared some sort of presentation to perform to the elementary kids. One class did a reader's theatre of the book "The Squeaky Door". It's a very cute children's book with different animal characters that a grandmother puts to bed with her grandson when he is scared at night. One of the animals is a pig. When they read that part and had a student come out dressed as a pig, there were several gasps, and EWE's from the crowd. The reaction was quite funny. Now you have to understand that pigs are considered a real "no no" here in Saudi. No pork, no pigs, they are taboo here. Of course this is due to the Islamic religion which is totally fine, but it was funny to hear half the audience gross out because of the mention of a pig.
Some little kids don't even know what a pig is here. Rachel has been tutoring a little 8 year old boy from Sudan for the past few months trying to prepare him for entrance exams to several British schools here. She was going over animals and the names of their babies. She asked the boy what the name of a pig's baby is. He looked at her with a very puzzled look. She said "A pig, oink oink". He had no idea what she was talking about. She realized that he probably had never seen a pig before, not even a picture.
I think pigs are very cute. Of course, I wouldn't want one as a pet, but they just seem so cute, not to mention how good they taste.
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