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Amazing experience Hi! I have got something that has made me laugh first. It was an amazing experience. I did not thought to do that someday! Let me tell you: It simply begins with rain. What more normal than this boring rain, common in Belgium at this period of the year... But, unfortunately, I forgot to take an umbrella... It was raining cats and dogs, so, after a few steps through this "drache nationale" (Belgian French word to say "heavy rain"), I have had a "funny idea": why not put my scarf/ sling on my head? Mine is special because it was a gift of a friend from Algeria so that it is a typical scarf you actually put on your head, so... Moreover, this nice gift is red, which is my favourite colour, but in fact, it is a very "flashy" thing. Indeed, I looked like a moslem... And how suprising to see that people were looking at me! Some of them looked "angry" (recentful perhaps?), others were suprised (I saw some friends that just said hello, without stopping walking of course, due to this poor rain). Others only looked at me. I was thinking to myself "It would be irritating to wear the veil (sail?) because everybody would look at me strangely!!!" I walked around a kilometer until the station, but it was enough to see that difference can be bad seen and maybe racism is more real than it seems... Sad but true. I had not the face of a moslem but I saw disturbed eyes looking at me... I saw it with fun of course but it was such an experience! I felt very brave :D I can do it!

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Wow, I wish I had that experience. It sounds a little life changing
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First I "did not have the choice" (we always have the choice in fact), because the rain was hard, but, when I went on the main street, I decided to keep this because I thought not to care about what the others would thought and also because I did not want to be like a wet dog (and to smell like this!!) lol Yes it was an eye-opening experience that I won't forget for a moment :P
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That does sound like an eye-opening experience and you were very brave to even do it!

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