Christmas break

Most of the time, in the African community the white girls that go out with Africans are on the whole not really that good looking.I always wonder sometimes why these guys could not just go home and get themselves some decent looking girls.Shirley was different though.She was decent looking by any cultural standards.I met her and other members of her family.I met her brother who attended UVA with my brother and her junior sister who was with a boyfriend of hers.Dating white women is a two side issue.The woman can help you in your new environment,but you also blow your chances of ever settling down with an Afro woman.At least, that is how it was in our community during this period.Shirley and Agbor had a long term relationship and when they did eventually break up without getting married it did create a tough situation for my brother.Our family friend in Alexandria had a pretty decent apartment.He had lived in the US for a long time although he was going through some rough times.He had landed a very good job when he moved into the Washington DC area but had just recently lost it for some unknown reason.He got another job but he did not seem to be as happy as everybody back home thought he was.He worked as an accountant and at the time the wife was still a student at Howard University in Washington DC.Their daughter was very young and he had to shoulder all the responsibility of keeping the family going.Babies are very expensive to raise in the US, so people do a lot of planning before having children.His planning was very good, it was just a case of bad timing in term of his losing his first job.I believed he did some part time work and so did his wife in a hotel.Anyway we had a nice time with them, spending Christmas and watching the clock turn to past midnight on new years eve.The Washington DC area had a huge immigrant population and it was reputed to be a place for party goers.The feeling was that those around the area paid more attention to their social life and did not care a lot about getting a decent college education.So people always advice you to stay put in the small towns and finish your schooling before attempting to hit big time city life.Overall the Christmas break was enjoyable and we all had a decent time.Although the weather was cold, just about everybody who had made it out of Cameroon to the US felt better about the new environment.We visited museums and parks around the area.We went to a popular night club at the time called Kilimanjaro, I guess it was operated by a guy from east Africa.I meet some friends there from my secondary and high school days back home.We talked, they all seem happy.I figured out that the fact that they could generate a steady income played a great deal towards making them happy. On January second we started the drive back towards Clemson, South Carolina.We did some sightseeing on the way back, stopping at the famous University of Virginia(UVA),a school that so many prominent US politicians had attended. We passed through Charlotte, North Carolina. An ancient but very beautiful city.We arrived home safely and at was just a matter of days before my next school quarter was to begin.