Greetings my 3 readers! So, as I mentioned in my last post, I'm getting ready to graduate in a bit. I've been running around trying to complete everything and tie up all these loose ends and once this is all done it'll be "no more pencils, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks." Hurray! I'm being pressured by my parents to pursue a Master's degree after this and frankly, the thought makes me want to vomit. I could not possibly do a Master's right now, maybe in a few years, but for now, I NEED A BREAK!

I will be returning home to Namibia and will begin looking for a teaching job in Windhoek. I have to say that I will miss the great friends that I've made in my time in Toronto, but I will definitely NOT miss the city. I am not a fan and I'm not cut out for this winter shit. I am AFRICAN to my very core, and winter is not for me. People who go skiing and enjoy winter sports are insane to me, I would much rather be surfing at the beach back home anyday!!

My time in this city was not all bad though. For the first time in my life, I was exposed to my fellow Somalis and actually have some Somali friends now. This is a first for me, as I have had friends from pretty much everywhere but my own country. It hasn't been due to a lack of desire though. I simly haven't lived anywhere where Somalis have lived! I will miss my roomates, who are also international students from Africa and with whom I navigated my way through this city. I have traveled extensively in my life and thankfully, this has helped me to adjust to life in Toronto! Before I leave though, I would like to visit Montreal for a bit, I always hear wonderful things about it and have some dear friends who live there. If anybody reading this knows of interesting places to visit in Montreal, please leave a comment and let me know! Also, if there are any of you who have had a similar experience as me (no exposure to fellow Somalis), I would love to hear from you, it's hard to feel like a lone alien all the time! This has been my longest post to date, which means it's time to wrap it up, so until next time, Mac'salaama!

It has suddenly dawned on me that I am about to graduate from uni and have no idea what I am going to do next. I will be graduating with a degree in english lit, which incidentally happens to be the most useless degree a uni grad can hold. Why did I major in eng lit do you ask? Well, dear reader, the answer is because I was not thinking about the future at the time that I started my undergrad and I now must suffer the consequences of such a stupid decision. No offense to all my fellow english lit grads out there, but I personally feel it was a waste. Keats, Joyce and Hemingway will not pay my bills.

P.S. The next person I hear say "wawaweewa" is going to get the worst beating the world has ever witnessed....and on that positive and loving note, until next time people!

Somalis are a cruel bunch I tell you. I speak from experience believe me. I happen to be one of the unlucky few who was born and raised in a country (Namibia) where there were few if any Somalis at all and as a result, my somali language skills have suffered. I'm barely functional and, while it is quite pathetic, it is not my fault. I have lived in Namibia my whole life, except for my recent (and current) stint in Toronto for uni, and frankly, have never seen as many somalis in my lifetime as I have seen in this city. I have been ridiculed and criticized for not speaking the language. I've been called whitewashed, westernized and everything else under the sun. People have said "kids who were born here speak it, why don't you?" Kids here, live in a city FULL of somalis, of course they speak it, but I grew up in a region where somalis were a rarity, it can't be held against me! I fear that it is now too late for me to learn it, as I'm in my early 20s. It has always bothererd me, but never more so than when I moved to this place. I guess it's something I'll have to deal with until and if I ever manage to learn it!