Squirrels(or the lack there of)

This is just a short post, as all assignments are due next week(and most on the same day) so this is a quick break from writing about New Zealand History(horray for nuclear-free policies!) to share a fun story of the day.

Our new lecturer for my personality class is a lovely lady who, shock, horror, gasp, is actually teaching us about personality! Surprising, yes, but so much more enjoyable! Today, midway through lecture, she started to talk about squirrels. Why squirrels you ask? Well, firstly they don't have them here. And secondly, I guess this lecturer thinks they are beyond cute. She was besides herself with telling us how lucky she was to be able to see some squirrels when she visited Philadelphia. At one point she took a poll to see how many of us had had the "fortune" to see a real life squirrel. I was one of ten students out of 200 to raise my hand. It never occurred to me that something most Americans think of as pests(even if they are cute ones) to be such a rare, almost exotic animal.

My lecturer ended her spiel about squirrels by showing a picture of a red squirrel holding a peanut in it's mouth. She was gushing so much that I didn't have the heart to tell her it was actually a picture of a chipmunk.

P.S.  I am still unsure of what squirrels had to do with personality. But it was a good lecture all the same.