Tell us about a time when you felt out of place.
There is a time when I felt out of place. In my mid teens I travelled with my parents to Fiji. Whist we were there we became friendly with a few of the resort staff. One of them, the lady who was on the car rental desk, was a Fijian lady called Sugar. Sugar was about to get married to a Polynesian Isander and invited my parents and myself to her wedding.
It was amazing. I have never experienced anything like it in my life. There was lost of tables of lots of Polynesian food and lots of cakes and a turtle was cooked in the ground in palm leave..
The number of little Fijian kids was amazing, but I felt a bit out of place, because my parents and myself where the only Anglo white people there. The children kept running 🏃♀️ up to us, touching us and giggling. We were a novelty to these kids, and for once I experienced how it was to be in a minority group. These kids weren’t racist. They had only ever seen white people in tourist areas. To see 👀 us up close at a wedding was something they obviously hadn’t expected. The wedding was lovely, and I feel honoured to have experienced that and very much enjoyed the innocence and playfulness of the children at the wedding.
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