Carnival!

A student was reading the back of my World Carnival 2008 t-shirt but I did not know this was what he was doing. So when he asked, “What is a carnival?” with “carnival” accented so as to render the word unrecognizable, I really had no clue what he was talking about.

I asked him to repeat the word. He did. I remained confused.

I asked him to spell the word. Instead, he asked, “Is it a sort of animal, or what?” I told him, in a regretful tone of voice, that still I did not understand what he was saying.

Finally he said, “On your t-shirt, ‘World Carnival.’”

“Ah-ha! A carnival is like a party.”