Tuesday, September 30, 2008
May Contain Nuts
People back home told me university would be a melting pot of people, which seemed to be a really disturbing image to me, but I got the gist of their point. The thing is, you never know which crayons here are the warped ones or the normal ones in the box. The other night, I met a seemingly charming person who looked normal. He had hair, eyes, a nose and all his limbs functioned. It was a shame he had verbal diarrhea. He told me all about his farm as if I knew exactly what road in Mpumalanga it was on and when he found out I could not, he verbally constructed a map down to the fifty orange trees along his road. Five beers later, I made my hasty escape to find normalcy. One other such person loves to tell me every thought that pops into their head, especially if it is an insult about me. After hearing how your hair looks crap and your stocking has a ladder for three days, I snapped and told this Captain Obvious to shut up and walk away before he became a lampshade. I suppose I should have patience with the slightly squished cupcakes of the world because God knows I am not without weirdness. Truly I can learn to love the strangeness. Like my one friend who is afraid of cheese and chocolate mousse. She is an amazing munchkin even though she is odd. The melting pot that is Rhodes has its oddballs and we don’t always get along but what’s life without a little nuts? It just makes the chocolate taste better.
Labels: crayons, embrace the strangeness, munckin, nutters, odd