Born and raised in Japan, and learning English like "A PEN", "THIS IS A PEN", "THE PEN IS ON THE DESK". I was always wondering how we can communicate with native English speakers like that.
One late evening, my little brother whispered me (yes, we can whisper, because we are Japanese! Anyway,) and told me that he found a very naughty and adult like TV program on Channel 12. Both of us sneaked in the living room while both of my parents were upstairs, and watched it together.... It was hysterical and horrendously funny and I got a humongous shock on the top of my head and inside of my brain as if a 16 ton weight falling on to my head.
"MONTY PYTHON and the Flying Circus", it was called....
It was all dubbed in Japanese (can you imagine that?!?!), but it was still very funny.
And I really wanted to express my feeling to the one I had a crush on - Michael Palin.
This was co-incidentally perfect timing with my study of English at school.
So, I wrote.
"A PEN, THIS IS A PEN, THE PEN IS ON THE DESK...!"
After coming from school one day, I found a greyish blue small envelope with pink Queen Elizabeth II's stamp one day in a small post box of my house in Japan. "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaay!!!"
Yes, it was from Mr Michael Palin of Monty Python.
Then my correspondence continued almost a decade and I got half a dozen cards and letters from him.
That was enough to inspire this school girl dreaming "I want to be a MONTY PYTHON!"
But how?
Thus this journey begins.....
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