The son of one of my English students is a fourth grade elementary school student. During the school’s spring break, he joined a club for elementary school students to take part in daily activities from Monday to Friday, from the morning to the afternoon.
The students had to bring their own lunch boxes. Every student brought a lunch-box which their mother had prepared, except for one boy. The students who had lunch-boxes had different dishes of rice, vegetables, fried chicken, and so on. The odd child out came every day to the club with a cup of instant ramen.
Maybe that boy eats very nutritious meals for breakfast and dinner. Or maybe not.
The story made me think about what a great
thing it is in Japan for schools to offer every student a nutritious meal for
lunch every Monday to Friday during term time.
Vocabulary:
the odd one out – the title of the blog
comes from the expression, “the odd one out.”
The odd one out is the exception in a group of otherwise similar
things. (e.g., He has six children. He has five daughters, and his son, Taro, is
the odd one out.)
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