My family and I are like many in the Somali Canadian community, but people don’t believe Somalis like us exist. Somali males are thought to be socia...ly maladjusted and criminally inclined, while Somali females are taught to be strange, ill at ease in the gender-egalitarian society of today’s Canada, since we’re from a conservative Islamic nation and all. I’m here to break that stereotype once and for all, or at the very least put a dent on it. At first glance, what most people notice about me. “I am very proud of you.” Poncho shared.“Thanks, papa,” Jesus responded.“You did good shooting that man. If you had not, he may have hurt one or more of our friends and neighbors.” Poncho shared.“Those machine guns scared me, papa.” Jesus shared.“Tony, Brad, Gloria and Willa faced sixty machine guns.” Poncho shared, “We have the tools and now they have been tested. Why did you kill that man?”“I saw our man yell and fall. I looked at the jeep with the machine gun and that man did not have a. He waits until the last party has regained their mounts before leaping down on top of his own horse. Riding down the stream he pulls up at the two men waiting with the hand generator."Wait until there's a good number down the bank, Zuni. I shall wait with your horses around the bend."They acknowledge their leader with a tip of the head. Both these men are volunteers, proud to perform this most dangerous of duties. They watch, concealed, as the enemy appear over the bank and charge down into the. “Well, we're gonna head out now, we'll talk later,” Alicia said.“OK, see you later,” I replied.They left, and we were alone. I think he was a little mad, but I was his mom. So, he had to forgive me. We kissed once again, and I looked at him.“You know, I love you no matter what, right?” I asked.“Yeah, I know mom, it's OK,” Travis let me know.“If anyone finds out about us, and doesn't like it. Then forget them, we know what great sex we're having together, and how much we mean to each other,” I.