How to spot a tourist:
- Camera
- Maps
- Bright colored vest
When you hear the whistle, find your buddy.
This could be a racist story if I was in the U.S., but I’m not so:
It was 7:15 pm when I returned home from Muay Thai class so the sun had fully set.
I was jogging up the dimly lit stairwell to my apartment by taking a couple steps at a time. As I am midway up level three I suddenly see only white teeth in the shape of a smile at the top of the stairs. I am startled and the smiling figure realizes this. “Habari (how are you?). Did I scare you?” the security guard asks.
“Yeah, your… uhh… dark features blend in with the dark stairwell.”
He laughs and I continue up past him with my heart beating very fast.
Kevin's Fellowship Abroad 