I have choir class on Mondays at lunch, and this week I found that one of my fellow exchange students, a boy from Denver, CO, is also in choir. We sat next to each other, and the music teacher (who is big, loud, and boisterous as music teachers should be) gave a huge yawn in the middle of a speech. Denver and I both proceeded to yawn, because, as everyone knows, those are very contagious things. However, I noticed that not a single Swiss student in the room seemed to be affected by the yawns given off by both our teacher and us. Thus began my experiment. Hypothesis: Only Americans find yawns contagious. I began pointedly exclaiming how tired I am and yawning in front of my host family, and have yet to find any results. They've noticed nothing, and have had no reactions to my yawns. I will continue this experiment and perhaps branch out to more test subjects, such as my fellow students. I will follow up this post with the results.
P.S. How many times did you guys yawn while reading this?
None, but I did yawn about two minutes after reading the question.
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