Columbus Day is coming yay, yeah right

Several years ago my parents hosted a foreign exchange student. He was from Spain and boy was he a character. He had this thing about Columbus. He believed that it was Columbus that SAVED the New World. It was he that brought civilization to the savages. Uhh, hey Beavis! The Yucatan Penisula was thriving with civilization before he got there. South America also had vast cultures. So if aliens came to Earth and landed in Podunk, USA would they think that ALL people from Earth are a bassawkards as them?

Yes Columbus did "discover" the New World, he did bring horses and the compass but he also brought Syphilis and Small Pox two diseases that had NEVER been on this side of the Earth. Hmm? The natives taught the Spaniards how to survive, just like they did with John Smith in Jamestown. Funny huh , how the savages "saved" the whiteman but the history books all say how it was the white man who saved the poor savages.

Back to the foreign exchange student, he and other Spaniards believe that CORN is for animals and he would NEVER lower himself to eat such a revolting thing. Well your hero had a great way of making him eat corn. I brought out Tortillas. Mmm, estos son muy sabrosos! Que es esos? Son de MAIZ. The look on his face was pricless. He had down about 6 corn tortillas before I told him. I was trying to be mean, but he had really pissed me off.

Come to find out his daddy paid the company to have him come to the US. Foreign Exchange students are upposed to be the cream of the crop right? Well lets just say he was not. He had his buddies send him HASH in the mail. Idiot would smoke outside and then tell my mom I wasn't smoking. She only lived with my dad for ever how was a smoker and had given it up after smoking 20+ years. You think we could smell the smoke emminating from his body? He drew the Spanish flag on the sidewalk of the high school and was appauled when they called my mom to tell her of the "vandalism" She made him scrub and clean it on his KNEES!!! Go Mom!!

So to all you you who have off tomorrow for Columbus Day what are we recognizing? A great discover or a murderer of a great civilization?