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    Abigail's Tale

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    Abigail lived across the river from her boyfriend Tom. The only bridge was swept away in a storm, separating them. Abigail saw a boat owned by Sinbad, who offered to row her across if she slept with him. She was torn between seeing Tom and cheating on him. She consulted her mother, who offered no advice. Abigail ultimately slept with Sinbad to see Tom, who rejected her angrily when she told him what happened. She then told Tom's friend Bob, who beat up Tom for treating Abigail badly.

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    Abigail lived across the river from her boyfriend Tom. The only bridge was swept away in a storm, separating them. Abigail saw a boat owned by Sinbad, who offered to row her across if she slept with him. She was torn between seeing Tom and cheating on him. She consulted her mother, who offered no advice. Abigail ultimately slept with Sinbad to see Tom, who rejected her angrily when she told him what happened. She then told Tom's friend Bob, who beat up Tom for treating Abigail badly.

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    Abigail lived across the river from her boyfriend Tom. The only bridge was swept away in a storm, separating them. Abigail saw a boat owned by Sinbad, who offered to row her across if she slept with him. She was torn between seeing Tom and cheating on him. She consulted her mother, who offered no advice. Abigail ultimately slept with Sinbad to see Tom, who rejected her angrily when she told him what happened. She then told Tom's friend Bob, who beat up Tom for treating Abigail badly.

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    Abigail's Tale

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    Azra Ozen
    Abigail lived across the river from her boyfriend Tom. The only bridge was swept away in a storm, separating them. Abigail saw a boat owned by Sinbad, who offered to row her across if she slept with him. She was torn between seeing Tom and cheating on him. She consulted her mother, who offered no advice. Abigail ultimately slept with Sinbad to see Tom, who rejected her angrily when she told him what happened. She then told Tom's friend Bob, who beat up Tom for treating Abigail badly.

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    Abigail’s Tale

    Once upon a time there was a pretty girl called Abigail who lived in a house with her
    mother. Everyday she would walk across her town, over the only bridge crossing the
    river to river to see her boyfriend, Tom. Abi thought Tom was lovely! She would skip
    and sing on her way to see her boyfriend, and they were very much in love.

    Of course Tom also thought Abi was lovely. He too would cross the town and the only
    bridge across the river to go and see Abi, but he didn’t skip and sing, at least when the
    other boys were looking he didn’t!

    They were so in love and would walk around holding hands to show everyone how
    much they loved each other. Aww

    One night a great storm flooded the river and swept away the bridge, the only bridge so
    the next morning they could only stand on opposite banks of the river and wave to each
    other, both very sad that they couldn’t hold hands.

    Abigail cried. She cried and cried and cried and wanted to see her Tom, but it would be
    months before a new bridge would be built, and there was no other way to cross the
    river. Then after a few days Abigail saw a little rowing boat tied up on the river, and
    went to speak to the man who owned it.

    “Please” Abi begged “Please row me across the river so I can see my Tom”. The man
    who owned the boat was called Sinbad. Not many people spoke to him, and very little
    was known about him. Sinbad thought about Abigail’s problem and offered to help. “I
    will row you across the river” Sinbad said, and Abi smiled, but she was happy to quickly.
    Sinbad continued “I will row you across the river, if you sleep with me.”

    Abigails smile turned into a frightful scream and she ran off crying. She couldn’t decide
    what to do. She wanted to see Tom so badly, but didn’t want to sleep with Sinbad. She
    felt torn between seeing her boyfriend and cheating on him with Sinbad, and she felt she
    needed to ask someone for advice, so sat down with mother and explained the whole
    story.

    Abigail’s mother listened to her story and when Abi had finished she looked at her
    mother, waiting for her advice. “well” her mother started “you need to sort this one
    out for yourself”. Abigail’s mother offered no advice as she wanted Abi to make the
    decision for herself.

    Abi was now more confused than ever and sat in her park thinking over her options.
    She decided she wanted to see Tom more than ever… he would know what to do, so
    she jumped up and went to Sinbad.

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    After she slept with him, Sinbad kept his word and took her on his boat across the
    river. Abi ran as soon as she arrived on shore to Tom. Tears running her face, she
    banged on his door and he was very shocked to see Abi, and to see that she was so
    upset. Abi explained everything that happened to her, and when she told Tom she had
    to sleep with Sinbad to see her, he went crazy.

    “WHAT!” he shouted “you cheated on me… with Sinbad!” Abi tried to explain why she
    did it, but Tom was so angry he slammed the door shut and didn’t want to speak to Abi
    again.

    Abi cried some more, and now was on the wrong side of the river to ask her mother
    for advice, but she knew where Tom’s best friend, Bob, lived.

    She went around to Bob’s house and explained everything to him. Bob let her into his
    house and gave her a nice cup of tea to try and help things. As Abi explained what had
    happened today, Bob was disgusted with how Tom had acted. So disgusted in fact that
    he went around to Toms house and beat him up for treating Abi so badly.

    And this is where our story ends.

    Exercise 1.
    List the characters (Abi, Abigails Mother, Tom, Bob and Sinbad) in order of who you
    think acted the worst, with the worst behaved character at the bottom of your list, and
    the best behaved character at the top of the list. Do not talk to anyone when you are
    creating your list.

    Exercise 2.
    Pair up with someone of the opposite sex and discuss the differences and similarities of
    your lists. Attempt to compromise and create a new list that you both agree on.

    Exercise 3.
    As a group discuss your new lists and start towards trying to work out a list for the
    group. This should have a time limit as it is highly unlikely a group of 5+ people will
    come to a compromise.

    Reflection
    “Culture” is usually based on nationality but as this exercise shows, individuals within a
    culture all have separate thoughts and varying values on Family ties, the acceptance of
    violence, friendship, loyalty and attitudes towards sexual activities.

    When mixing with people from different cultures we should be aware that all their
    actions, values and attitudes are not necessarily purely from their national culture.

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    We are always looking through our own “cultural glasses” for example as a Brit I will
    always see things through my “British Glasses”, seeing things like long queues at the bus
    stop as a norm. where as someone with a different cultural background can see this as
    weird and over polite. We both are looking at the same activity, the same queue and
    the same context, but we see it through our cultural glasses and compare it to our own
    culture, what we consider “normal”!

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