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My adventurous husband, Dog, once took off from his happy and peaceful life at a Japanese university to live in Alaska for a few months, at which time he ventured into the extreme north (above the Arctic Circle, so I hear) to camp with a crazy man in a tent in January. The story goes something like this:
1. They didn't bring any meat, expecting to kill something and eat it. 2. All of the animals were hibernating. 3. Husband, in a lack-of-meat-fueled fit of ingenuity, built a slingshot and killed some squirrels, which they ate with soy sauce over rice.
Anyway, Dog didn't speak much English at the time, and barely understood when the crazy man told him that bears were in the area, and to beware.
Fast forward a few years. He told me this story, and I asked him what type of bears were there, and what was his response? POODLE BEARS. Adorably, this is what he calls polar bears, and I also can't bear to correct him since I think it's just about the cutest thing I've ever heard.
Now this is what I see when I picture a polar bear. Are you afraid? (This is Maruko, the dog of my parents-in-law. He's my ally when we're in Japan because he doesn't speak Japanese that well either, and he never asks me any questions that I don't know how to respond to.)
To anticipate the questions that may arise in your head; yes, most of my stories will be this random, and no, not all of my posts will be about my husband's endearing malapropisms. But there will probably be a few more.
