Everyone has secrets, anxieties and insecurities, and I am definitely no exception, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Yasmin Hussein, and I'm a Somali-Canadian Muslim woman living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. I stand five-foot-ten, curvy and sexy, a fine exemplar of the beautiful Northeast African/Horn of Africa woman. Beauties like me are found in nations like Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Djibouti, but I am nevertheless one of a kind. Everyone who comes in contact with me knows it. The few who don't, well, I try to enlighten them as best I can.
I study accounting at Algonquin College and I'm close to completing my program. These days, life just couldn't be better. My new boyfriend Steve Salomon, a big and tall Haitian guy I met at work, simply worships the ground I walk on. And you know what? I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm a Muslim woman of Somali descent and I'm absolutely crazy for this sinfully sexy Haitian guy who was raised in the Christian faith. Whoever says opposites attract must have been talking about us.
I know that my darling Steve Salomon loves me and I love him dearly, but I worry sometimes that I might be pushing my favorite Haitian stud to his limits. The other day, I went to visit him at his school, Carleton University, where he's studying business management, and brought him some Shawarma I bought at the Shawarma King restaurant downtown. I went to the campus library's quiet third floor, his favorite spot, with the intent of surprising him. I'm the one who ended up getting surprised.
You see, I found Steve sitting awfully close to a blonde-haired, green-eyed fat white chick who was grinning at him. The fat bitch looked at my Steve the way a hungry orca looks at a wayward seal. Instantly I felt angry, and approached the two of them with a frosty smile. Hello Steve, I said evenly by way of greeting. Steve nearly jumped out of his skin upon hearing my voice. Dude looked at me with a look of such guilt on his handsome face that I had to resist the urge to smack the shit out of him.
The white chick and I exchanged a look, and the plump white bitch wisely remained silent. Steve Salomon smiled at me sheepishly and expressed his surprise at seeing me there. Carleton University is a long way from Algonquin College, where I'm taking my four final courses. I hopped on the 111 bus at Baseline Station and rode it for half an hour, all the way to the Carleton campus. Long ride but my man is worth it, that's what I told myself at least.
Once I arrived at the bus stop near Minto Center, I walked my ass to the University Center building, and cut through the throngs of students walking in the Atrium. Finally, I made my way to the garden-like quad, and reached the campus library. As I walked through Carleton, a lot of people looked at me. This school is one of the most racially diverse institutions of higher education in all of Canada but as a tall, gorgeous young woman of Somali descent, clad in a long traditional dress and Hijab, I definitely stood out. People checked me out. Nerdy Chinese guys, lusty white dudes, demure Indian dudes, envious white chicks, territorial Jamaican chicks, and so on.