twenty-two

Last semester there was a foreign exchange student in my chemistry class from Vietnam. And knowing that Vietnam was once a French colony I was excited to maybe speak French with someone who could actually speak French. So I asked him if he could and he looked at me funny. And I said well it's a legitimate question seeing how France once had control over Vietnam and I guess he had never heard of this. So today in my French class I felt bad for assuming he knew French because there was this war of independence from the French. And Vietnamese nationalists I guess went into houses and yelled "Feu!" and if people jumped up scared then they were killed. Why wasn't I taught this in high school?