two-way street

This morning it occurred to me that while I will have my hands full adjusting to the behaviors of a foreign culture, the Chileans will have their own wacky experience, if they only know North Americans through popular culture and the news, and then they get me instead.

I told my friend Bob there probably aren't a lot of geeky Zen aikidoists teaching English in South America, and he said, "By the numbers, there aren't a whole lot living in the United States, either."