My name is Leona Luong. A young woman of Vietnamese descent living in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario. I currently attend Algonquin College, where I'm taking up Police Foundations. In 2012 I will transfer to Carleton University. It's where my fiancΓ© Derrick Jean-Renald is currently studying Criminology. In fact, we met while I was visiting my cousin Ashley Luong at Carleton University. Derrick is one of Ashley's friends. A big and tall Black man of Haitian descent who became her protector and play-big-brother after she was nearly assaulted by a White guy named Hank O'Malley at Carleton University. I guess White guys don't take rejection very well when Asian chicks dare say no to them.
I've been living in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario, ever since I moved there from my hometown of Ha Noi in North Vietnam. That was three and a half years ago. Since then I've become a Permanent Resident of the Confederation of Canada, and I like my life here. The Canadian Capital City is a quiet place for the most part. Of course, bad things can and do happen anywhere. Take my cousin Ashley for example. She's a nice and easygoing Canadian gal of Vietnamese descent. Friendly and without a care in the world. Definitely not the type to attract trouble. And yet one night, she and her Jamaican boyfriend Leonard Johnson were attacked by this White guy named Hank O'Malley and his Irish buddies. Ashley dated Hank before dumping him for Leonard two months and I guess macho Irishman Hank couldn't stand to lose his Asian girlfriend and trophy to a Haitian guy of all people.
For some reason, even though interracial dating is pretty common across North America, people always stare when they see a Black man with a woman who isn't Black. Hank and his buddies did more than stare at Ashley and Leonard. They attacked them right on campus. The police got involved and Hank got arrested and thrown out of Carleton University. I don't know why White guys feel that Asian girls are their private property. We're free to date men of any race. Just because a lot of Asian girls date White men doesn't mean every Asian lady is genetically designed to worship men of European descent. Sorry, White guys. This Asian diva prefers Black men. I met the handsome Derrick through Ashley and Leonard. Derrick is Haitian and I wasn't sure he'd be into me. Most Haitian guys I met in the City of Ottawa are either dating Black women or they're chasing chubby White women like their lives depend on it.
Well, I guess I should have known better than to believe in a stereotype. The same way that not all Asian women worship European men, not all Black guys in North America chase Black women or White women. Some Black men happen to like Asian ladies. I still didn't think Derrick would be into me, though. I stand five feet six inches tall, and I'm skinny as hell. I don't have a big butt or large breasts. My roommate Shawna Walrond sometimes teases me by saying I am built like a trapeze artist. I wish I were a trapeze artist, because then being short and skinny would come in handy. Instead I'm a short Asian chick with a flat chest and a flat butt. Sometimes I envy Shawna Walrond. She's around five-foot-eleven, with dark brown skin, long Black hair and pale brown eyes. Shawna attracts all kinds of guys. She's currently dating this Venezuelan guy named Enrique Lopez.
Shawna Walrond, my roommate and bully, finds my attraction to Black men ludicrous. She constantly tells me that there is no way in hell that a self-respecting Black man would date a short, skinny Asian chick with no chest and no butt. If I were built like Shawna I'd definitely attract the Black men that I adore. I noticed that even when Black men dated White women and Hispanic women, they went for the ones who were built like Black women. As in chicks with big boobs and big round butts. Sometimes I seriously wish I could shut Shawna up. Then one day, fate provided that opportunity for me. Derrick, my cousin Ashley's best friend, asked me out on a date. He took me to the Silver City Movie Theater in Ottawa and we watched the movie Thor. Truth be told, I only liked the parts where Black American actor Idris Elba was shown. The rest of the movie sucked. Still, I really enjoyed sitting so close to a sexy Black stud like Derrick. Even though Thor isn't a scary movie, I acted really scared during the fight scenes so Derrick would put his arm around me. He did!