Top of the morning to you, my devoted, at times surly and always fun readership. The name is Natalie Xiaowei, and I'm something akin to a unicorn. An Asian female living in Canada who doesn't worship White guys or prop up White Supremacy, quite unlike the majority of my people. Why am I so different from the others? I love chocolate and I cannot lie. Anyhow, this is my true story of getting by in the City of Ottawa, Ontario.
I study civil engineering at Carleton University in the City of Ottawa. My parents moved to Ontario, Canada, from our hometown of Hangzhou, Eastern China, in the summer of 2000. We've lived here ever since. I am twenty four years old, and living life by my own rules. In this world, people always try to force you to be what they want you to be. Doesn't matter if they're using race, religion or politics to do it, they just can't leave you alone and let you be yourself. Good thing I'm a wild chick who doesn't give a damn what anyone thinks.
Sitting on the OC Transpo bus leaving the affluent suburb of Barrhaven, I hold my boyfriend Ahmed Abukar's hand, and he smiles at me. Ahmed is looking so damn good today, clad in a blue silk shirt, Black silk pants and Black Timberland boots. My boyfriend has always been a snappy dresser. From the moment I first glimpsed Ahmed walking through the Rideau Shopping Center in downtown Ottawa, I knew he was special. That's why I went after him like an electric bolt, and got him. All the Somali girls at school tend to stare when they see us together, but I don't give a fuck.
Ahmed gently squeezes my hand and kisses me on the lips, and I smile as I kiss him. Ahmed splashed on a lot of Cologne today, and it's mixing with his natural manly scent in a wondrous way. We're going to the Silver City movie theater near Blair Station on the other side of town because the Odeon Cineplex in Barrhaven is super boring. Seriously, there's a lot of uptight bozos in Barrhaven, the wannabe millionaires, and Odeon Cineplex is like their favorite hangout. Reason enough for Ahmed and I to find a better place to chill.