It's that time again folks!
'Kweet niet wat ik er van kan doen! Geen idee hoe ik mezelf kan helpen... Alles is veels te lastig!
Nowadays I feel like my title!
I went to this wedding the other day out in West London. It had been little over 9 months since I last cut the rug on a Somali dancefloor. I felt out of place as soon as I arrived not quite being able to put my finger on why. After about half an hour there I looked around perplexed and commented to my comrade. "Is it me or does everyone look very skinny here?" The lollypop look seemed to be rife that night, skin and bones literally. Some knobbly knees on show too....
She shrugged and said disinterestedly said that it seems to have become all the rage since last summer.
Going to the loo, overheard a girl how fat the thought she looked in her bacweyne!
It didn't bother me that much, still danced the night away, avoiding the searchlight of the videocam like a plague.
Came home the next day to my mother cooking bariis, hilib, mulukhiya, maraq and commenting how no Somali girl will ever find herself a worthy man if she keeps watching what she eats as carefully as we do. This comment particularly aimed at my elder sister who has become a vegetarian. Two hours after dinner found the mothership back in the kitchen making laxoox (anjeero)
My self esteem in midst of all of this still hasn't improved all that much.
A veggie pizza is calling me now....
4 comments:
Dahab, you're not the only who noticed this obsession with the skeletal look. I'm finding it difficult to recognize some old acquaintances with now sunken cheeks and googly, hungry eyes. Blech!
You're not a vegetarian, are you? 'Cause with your mother's yummy cooking, I couldn't look at a vegetable :)
Hey Dahab,
I honestly think you have what it takes to write a great novel. I think you should go for it.
Aya: Ha! recognising long lost acquaintances is always a bit easier if you add 20 pounds to the face! Vegetarian? Me? Thanks to my mum's side of the family I have this nsatiable hunger for anything that once used to be alive... Being part Cidagalle rules!!!! I honestly can't for the life of me figure out how some people can live a fulfilled life denying themselves food.
Fx: Thanks for the compliment, but I haven't the patience to undertake anything on such a scale. Something to do with the attentionspan of a golden retriever or was it the memory of a gold fish....
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