WASHINGTON - With a straw of wheat in each of their mouths, another gaggle of students from local institution American University have travelled into the big city to trade their valuable resources with other such entrepreneurs.
Bringing their cows, chickens, and other livestock, the students weekly make the trek to exchange their product with the local big-time city slickers.
“Yeah, I’m just a simple country folk,” explained a visiting student majoring in something called CLEG, “I hope to just make do.”
“I like the pumpkins,” said another, a thick Louisiana accent behind it. “They are-uh my favorite.”
The university radio station, WAMU, is well-regarded for broadcasting one of the most comprehensive almanac-based programs on the continent.
American University, located far from the downtown Washington, DC area, in the middle of several empty fields and rife with a plethora of bales of hay. The travelling students use their wagons to transport their goods inside the city each week.
“We also appreciate being given the opportunity to vote,” explained a merchant. “We only come into town in the middle of the week, and it helps the election is scheduled to accommodate that.”
