safety first.

during our orientation week we’ve received many recommendations on how to stay safe. our program manual is rather hilarious in this regard. we are to be on the lookout for bank robberies and riots and have been ordered to run away should either take place. kenyan “rappers” apparently like to have american girlfriends. men with dreadlocks are generally associated with “criminals, drug abusers, male prostitutes, and other ne’er-do-wells. many men grow dreadlocks with the specific intention of making it easier to pick-up white women.” like moths to a flame – white girls to dudes with dreads. according to my handy manual dressing inappropriately, asking a man to dance, sustaining eye contact or smiling at a man are “tantamount to a promise of sex.” too bad, I was stoked to wear hot pants and stare openly at every man I met.