Saturday, June 19, 2010

De quelle origin?

I'm afraid this blog might not be very eventful. I tend to keep my personal life on the DL and share select things with select people, but this blog is an attempt at me to just DGAF and open up more. However, I wonder what has changed in me because honestly, so far, I look around, and there is no one I find attractive! There is this thing people here do, which is blow out a bit of air--not quite whistling--at you to get your attention...that's like their cat call. Anyway, everyone does it. At first, it was funny bc the guy was literally running late to his plane and he still looked at me while running and blew out the air and raised his eyebrows at me to say hello. Now, I've come to realize that literally everyone does it--walking down the street, at the pub...anywhere to get your attention.

I was actually offended when we were watching the World Cup Game at the Black Lion Pub bc the guys at the table next to us kept doing that to us and they had FRANCE scarves on and said they were rooting for France in the beg, but they were impostors the whole time bc they were really cheering for Mexico! So, I was offended bc 1. that cat call thing is not unique, 2. they were only pretending to cheer for their home country and I hate phonies!

The other guys who came up to us there weren't even cute! Mind you, we were also with our Mama. And the best one was when these other guys asked where we come from and Angelica said, "It doesn't matter" bc we were uninterested and were leaving hahaa.

Anyway, yeah, so I made this blog with the intention of writing about dating adventures I go on, but seeing that I'm here with my family and also that I'm surprisingly uninterested in the locals, I think it will be more about revelations of my heart and maybe adventures as they come--but nothing really dramatic worth keeping you clinging to your seats, so I'm sorry in advance if that's what you expected.

I can, however, say that "De quelle origin??" is becoming a very overused, cheesy, and unoriginal pick-up line. All these people have yellow fever, but it's for the wrong reasons, and they seem to equate anyone from the Asian continent as one and the same. Y'all know that culture and language are extremely important to me...so nothing offends me more than people being ignorant and not respecting differences in culture and language. This may be shocking, but yes, not all "Asiatiques" are the same.

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