Same ol’ ———- A-GAIN!

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Yes, sooooooo, today was one of those days, A-GAIN!  Out n’ about in Kiev with my brown skin and scaring children and adults along the way.  YUP!  Well, that’s what the reality would be if I actually believed all the blatant and ignorant comments I heard today.  A little girl pushed me in the clothing store today.  When I went to the cosmetics store, they said I was scary, then on the way up the escalator with my friends, a strange man called one of us a prostitute.  Why?  Who cares?  ‘Cause as long as I’m brown, as long as anyone doesn’t fit the norm, their definition of normal and beautiful, then that person should be expected to be made fun of and ridiculed constantly.  Welcome to the new world order.  Happy times all around.  NOT!

Update: Now, Kiev

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Taken on village road right outside the house where I was staying and teaching this summer.

Taken on a village road right outside the house where I was staying and teaching this summer.

Well, it’s been a while.  I’m in Kiev now and describing this past month and a half as a rollercoaster would be a gravely, inappropriate understatement.  I’ve been up and down, emotionally and physically, believe it or not (hey, jumpin’ on a trampoline counts)!  Being in the village had it’s very high points (I am now categorizing fresh air and home-grown food as luxuries) and it’s very low points (you can never run far enough away from stark and harsh realities).

P.S.  Upcoming posts will include a series of life’s thoughts I pondered about while in the village, otherwise known as Pischana.