Here we go again...
The second semester is underway and everyone is back in the hall. I have to go back into a world where a hot girl is called 'fit', where 'innit?' is a regular part of a conversation and where 'are you going out tonight?' forms the basis of almost every single conversation. Not that I'm jaded or anything. There are a lot of interesting people in the hall, and Im always open to an interesting conversation. Most of the time though, I prefer to eat a meal on my own because the quality of the food usually makes me irritable enough to be good company only to a mental patient and also I have to always be on my guard for the Ninjas. In addition my insomnia has gotten particularily bad and I went a grand total of 21 hours without sleep some time ago. That doesnt make me cranky, but it does make me wonder why I paid money for a bed.
And of course this means a fresh round of assuring people that Rwanda is not one of Jupiter's moons but is a country in Central Africa and also to inform them that I do not live in a cave or hunt for my dinner. I have never worn a loincloth either and any similarity between my lifestyle and Tarzan's is exaggerated. Let the education begin!
And of course this means a fresh round of assuring people that Rwanda is not one of Jupiter's moons but is a country in Central Africa and also to inform them that I do not live in a cave or hunt for my dinner. I have never worn a loincloth either and any similarity between my lifestyle and Tarzan's is exaggerated. Let the education begin!

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LMAO at least i'm not alone in answering the silliest questions or staying up day and night, this is a start, its after 1am, i have class and i am wide awake....sigh!!!
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Tarzan's in the next country over, isn't he? How bout them spears for killin, eh?
Hmm. we US southerners get the crappy stereotypes too. I feel less alone now in this.
Sorry for the ignorant Euro-Americans. I still talk to people who ask me if Africa is "wild." Haha. I tell them that I felt safer there then in any big city in America or in Europe! People are funny with their stereotypes. Hang in there! I get pretty bad insomnia too but now i'm on a lot of medication so I sleep like a baby and according to my wife I've picked up a snore!
Oh God!! I hear you!! Most Americans (I said most, not all) believe that us Canadians are either all Indians or Eskimos! They believe the country is populated by good looking people with golden brown skin running around in their tan tom-tom outfits, pounding on drums, live in tepees and skin buffalo for their hide. Others believe that up north (anything more north than Maine and New Hampshire) we 'canuks' ride around in snowmobiles, trek around in horse shoes to get to work and eat whale blubber. HELLO!! Wake up call!! Most of the Indians here drive cars, eat MacDonald's buy their clothes at Wal-Mart! As per city life and getting around in a snow storm? We use a shovel, and wear regular boots like everybody else! Geeze! Talk about living a sheltered life!! You should say that you are from Rwanda, but also lived up north - Thunder Bay, Canada and see the kind of raised eyebrows and blank faces you'll get from that one!!!
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