Yesterday, Travis was busy studying his Karen lesson, when he saw a very unusual sight. Our three male students were up at the shed, loading the trailer full of cement blocks, when they suddenly broke out into a strange dance. Hopping and jumping, and whirling around…Travis had his curiosity aroused at once! He didn’t personally hear any music, and the boys are not usually into dancing, although they can do flips and other amazing feats of acrobatics without any provocation.

So, Travis decided to saunter on up to the shed, and see what he could glean from the experience. He noticed at once that this dance now included throwing bricks to the four corners of the globe, as well as anything else that happened to be in their way. Another mysterious thing was that this dance seemed to require long, wicked looking machetes, which each one grasped in their hands while busily hopping up and down.

Travis watched them for around 5 minutes, trying to figure out the rhyme and reason for this strange behavior, when one of the boys slung another brick, and an astonished snake head darted up out of the sand. Suddenly, Travis got the picture, it wasn’t a dance, but a fun game of hide and seek with a 6 foot long snake! Thah Me reached down to pull the snake out of it’s hiding place, when he quickly ascertained that this snake did not live alone, it had a loving wife, and probably many children! So, the second snake was quickly dispatched the same as the first. Two six foot long snakes!

How would you dispose of two six foot long snakes if you were a young Asian student? Leave them on the ground to scare the living daylights out of everyone? No, you would not do that. Would you go and bury them? No, it would be too much work. Would you throw them into the jungle? No, the cat might drag them back to your cozy home. Take them to the neighbors to improve relations, and give them extra protein for their diet? Absolutely!