Vernal Vignettes

Ethnic requirements

I'm taking a knitting class at the high school in the town where we used to live. Each week I take in the wallpaper of signs and posters as I make my way to the classroom where we meet. The past two weeks have been puzzling.

Week 1: Signs on 8.5 x 11 for a Mandatory Asian-American Club meeting. I assume this meant if you were a member, you had to go. It also seems to me that the sign was saying that if you are Asian American, you were required to attend. Can you be white and a member? Regardless, are high schoolers so desparate for extra curriculars that they are creating clubs based on ethnicity?

Week 2: A traditional tempura-painted (referenced as a stereotype of high schools, not Asian artistic methods) banner sign advertising Asian-American Night $5 March X, 2006 8 p.m. So who is going to this thing?

The plot thickens

In other news from our old town, we have been invited to purchase plots in the new cemetery. This comes to us via a pre-need sale. Of course it's pre-need!

The lovely brochure also touts: Belmont's first new burial space since 1988!

Whee! Apparently residents haven't been able to be buried in their hometown in twenty years. Still, I don't think burial and an exclamation point ever belong together.