creepers

okay, THIS IS IT. i hope i didn't hype it up too much. if you're disappointed, find another blog to read. JK KEEP READING MINE IT'S THE BEST!!! i tried to do as much research as possible but people were hard to get ahold of and i didn't want to leave ya'll suffering with anticipation.

so this post is a small compilation of some of the CREEPER texts and emails people on my program have gotten. i'm only including a handful of examples here, but considering there's 29 girls on the program and we all get proposed to on average 4 times a day, there are a LOT of juicy examples. also i just want to show you that i'm not the only one who attracts the creepers with a special flair for bringing out the romance of english language. i tried to keep the grammatical beauty of these texts as intact as possible. here goes....

(1) i debated saving this one for last, because it's one of the best, but i might as well start off with a bang. so this was sent to courtney, who is one of my favorite people on this program. she was on a 2 hour taxi ride and the conductor kept pestering her to give him her number. she kept saying she didn't have a phone. finally, about 1/2 hour into the ride, she moves to another seat and her phone falls out of her pocket. OOPS. so then she had to give him her number. later that night, this is what she receives: "Flying kiss honey it’s me Ali a’m missing u. at my fast time when I sow u, u breaked my heat .honey, try to show me that u love me. honey let me tell u that u are beautiful lady. honey, i have many wards but let me stop there. but have a sweet good nite."

(2) now julie, who is one of the girls i'm living with in gulu, seems to attract the MOST creepers. she's very blond and very sweet and looks very all-american, so i think that's what does it. one night she was at a club and she met this guy named frank from congo. he entered his number into her phone as "frank from congo." since then he's been calling and texting her multiple times a day. here's the first text she received: "Hi baby, hop urefine. this frank 4yestertay night enge noir club.may gv me,in apoitment.imissu." then, a few nights later, he sends this: "This may not be an easy thing to do, I can handle it. “Even if this was true in the beginning, it is not so now. The drugs handled us, We lived to use and used to live. Very simply, an addict is a person whose life is controlled by drugs."

WTF?

then frank from congo apparently gives julie's number to his friend richard from tanzania, who texts this to julie: "Hi J.!U make feel good since u’ve a chocolate smile.Richard from Tanzania."

(3) here's another one courtney received, this time from a guy named ibra. i haven't heard the story behind this one, but i'm sure it's beautiful: "hi iam sorry but I need to see u in my life ur my hero please sms me good night from ibra"

(4) here's a little gem that laura got. i don't even know how to begin to decipher what this guy's saying: "j am rovinz lauli, and i just wanted 2 say hei to you, and how is the stardies but i would like to run your language miss laulia i badge you, be afriend of main , just afreind . But let me say good buy , yours faithfully juall bless you !!”

(5) and finally, i'll end with my own. the other night i went to get some dinner. i was by myself and it was my first time venturing out into the world after malaria had smacked me down. i just wanted to eat and get back to bed. of course that wasn't in the cards. i sit down, and after a few minutes pass by i look up and see this guy just standing there STARING at me. i look at him, he doesn't look away. i look away for awhile, look back, he's still standing there. finally he motions to ask if he can sit with me. i don't have the energy to argue so i say okay. we have a fine conversation, nothing too creepy. he's seems totally nice and normal. i make a move to leave, and of course the inevitable "can i have your number." again, no energy to argue (that and i'm a wuss), so i just give it to him. the next day i receive this: "HOW.WAS UR DAY HOPE WAS GOOD AM SORRY I DID CALL U CAN U 4 GIVE ME, AVE GOOD NIGTH". many hours later i respond and say something along the lines of, "i'm still sick, resting, how are you", and he responds: "AM NOT FINE BECAUSE I AM MISSING U"

I DON'T GET IT. they're normal in real life, but when they start texting, a whole other side comes out.

Okay I’m going to eat Ethiopian food tonight. SO EXCITED.

p.s. annie I knew you were gonna get me on that one. I knew it even as I was typing it.

p.p.s. BOBBY I LOVE YOU.