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On a sunny bright Sunday afternoon, I received a text from Maria Bianca who according to the text was a 28-year-old single lady and looking for someone to settle with in a long-term relationship. She told me she was working as an expatriate in Turkana and she had found my number on Facebook and got struck by my red lips, my height (5.8") and above all my charming handsomeness, she wrapped up my peculiar looks in a single text in a manner I have never known or seen before...I was intrigued but something told me it wouldn’t last.
How can a white young lady describe me in such generous words? So I decided to play it safe and try and enquire a few things about her because growing up I had a desire to study abroad and now a chance was about to present itself.
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