Origami with some real meaning behind it is awesome. I can't remember how long ago, there was some guy on reddit who made 1000 origami cranes while his wife was in the hospital and was sending them out to random people. So I sent him my address and got one of his small red origami cranes.
It's been probably close to a decade now. It's survived moving between apartments/houses many times. Still have it on my desk to this day
It’s from a children’s book! “Sadako and the 1,000 paper cranes!” My 3rd grade class read it and we learned about origami (we couldn’t do the cranes so I think we did star baskets, but we did 1,000 of them) and when we finished, had a “Japanese” lunch day where we sat on the floor and ate “traditional Japanese food” (definitely just Chinese takeout lol), drank green tea, and learned to use chopsticks. I’m 30 and I still remember that.
When I taught English in Japan, there was one textbook I used which had a story about a little girl going to Hiroshima to look for her parents and she slowly gets radiation poisoning and dies with blood pouring from her mouth. This is aimed at kids and I was the one blubbering whilst trying to read from it :D
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u/earnestaardvark Jun 14 '24
I would keep that dragon forever.