The first time I saw you

We are never prepared on what life has in store for us. Funnily enough I still remember the first time I saw you. It is funny, cause when we first met I was not even the slightest interested in another man, and definitely not a man from an other culture. Simply cause I had met a guy just the week before that made me wish I will never meet anybody like him again. I was still scared and suspicious.

It was during the summer, I have tried, but I do not remember the date, but it can have been a friday. I was working, out in the area of my work that we call Garden. All of a sudden a guy passes me. I only see that guy, cause he reminds me of a friend. A friend that just a couple of days before has told me that white girls have a hard time recognizing him on the street, cause all the black look the same to us. He passed me and it took me some seconds to realize, he is different color...and I know that one! I was busy with work, so I could not run after him, but I had to tell him that even though white girls can not separate him from another black guy, he can not separate a white girl from another white girl either! So when I got a small break, I started searching.

I found him, on the other side of the dance floor. The dance floor was empty, that is why I think it was a friday. I saw him, my friend, and I smiled and put my arms out to the side going towards him and when I came closer I informed him that he passed me and that he can not recognize a white girl from another! He greeted me and introduced me to his friend. I had seen he had a friend, but I payed him no attention. I was polite enough to tell him....to tell you hi, how are you? before I completely ignored you and talked to my friend.

This night it was fun working. It is always fun working when there is somebody that I know so that I can change a couple of words with them when I pass. And also, there was not that many people, but still work to do, so I could work the way I like, with dance-movements.

I then remember when I found my friend alone at a table. So I went there and asked him how he was, and where his friend was at. I got to know that you were somewhere else, that you did not have the patience to sit down, but you wanted to enjoy. Or however he put it. I stopped to talk for a while, cause I had no stress. Suddenly you appeared, I more sensed your presence than actually saw you.

Up til now I have no actual memory of you. But then you touched my bracelet and told me that you liked it. I was so surprised. I am not used to guys actually noticing small things like bracelets, and definitely not  pointing them out. And that small touch... I found myself quickly enough, I looked at my arm, said thank you and said that it is not real silver. To which you answered you don't care. I remember that I did not know what to say next. And I realized you had a bracelet around your arm also. And it was beautiful. And I told you so. You still have it.

After this small conversation I really had to go back to work. You went back to the dance floor I guess. I looked at you when you were leaving.

At the end of the night, I hadn't even payed enough attention to remember your name. But the way you surprised me...you managed to enter my mind. And even though I did not want to have anything to do with you...you respected that and instead gave us a good start.

A good start to the journey of my life. A journey where you have proved me wrong so many times. And with every time I have been wrong, it's been because everything I have thought up til then was crushed and smashed into pieces. Leaving me amazed, happy and surprised that in this word, it exists guys like you.

Water

While I was in Lagos, we only drank bottle water. Making us go to the store almost every day, cause we need water all the time.

Once there was a situation where I needed water. So I took the bottle next to the bed. I drank from it, and I finished it. Honey watched me, and said nothing. Some moments later he was thirsty. I told him we have water in the fridge. He told  me, no we have not, I finished the last one.

I just looked at him. Why did he allow me to finish the last water? I asked him about that, but he only answered that I needed the water. Well, so does he!

Next time when we were in the store I looked at a water boiler. I looked at the price, and I made up my mind. We were going to buy a water-boiler! We talked about it, me and Honey, and finally he agreed with me. Having a water boiler made it possible for us to boil the water we got from the tap, making sure we never run out of water. And when I leave he and his family will be able to continue using it.

We used to boil a full can of water, then put it into those empty bottles we had from the water we bought. Then we could store it in the fridge and have cold water when ever needed.