I get a lot of advice about my future from people I know and don’t know. My host families have already told me to marry here and stay in Albania forever. But my favorite is when random strangers, after finding out that I can speak Albanian but that I’m American, compliment me profusely and then advise me to “find an Albanian husband, and stay here forever.” “Forever” is the word they always use.
On Friday, I was coming back from the beach when I met my host mom in the middle of the road. She was getting a ride to the store from a man I’ve never seen before. After exchanging a few words, he followed up with the usual: “Very, very good. Just marry and Albanian man and stay here forever!”
I always find it amusing and well-intentioned. Can you imagine an American telling foreign young women to marry an American man and stay there forever? Haha. It knows no limits, which only makes it funnier. A furgon driver who was in the middle of ripping me off was telling me that I was Albanian-American, because I spoke Albanian, and told me to get married and stay here. Uh, buddy, if you’re saying this in the middle of ripping me off, especially when I’m in a hurry, you’re not making a very strong case, are you?
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