No one can resist Taylor Swift

In the Tunis train station waiting for the train to Mahdia, Eug and I were both in a ‘ugh but what can you do’ mood after getting ripped off by yet another taxi driver.  We were at the station quite a bit earlier so we took turns going to the washroom.  As I was walking out of the washroom, I saw Eug smiling and talking to a girl.  I almost pulled another TWC (for those who don’t know, TWC stands for Taiwanese Crazy) with my cut-throat gesture but I quickly broke into a smile realizing he was talking to a very cute little girl.

When Eug went to the washroom, the girl was not shy with me as she was with Eug.  She said quite a few words to me which I could not understand, and then she tried to lift my 11kg backpack, which she succeeded in doing.  I clapped my hands to say job well done.  Then I asked her how old she was, and started counting numbers in French when she didn’t seem to understand me.  She put out 4 fingers and said she was four.  Then I pointed to her sister who was holding on to her mom.  She put out 2 fingers.  When Eug came back, she pointed at Eug’s iPhone headset.  Eug said ‘musique’ and offered it to her.  Once she put it against her ear, she became mute and frozen.  Of course Eug had Taylor Swift on and this 4 year old was completely mesmerized for a good 5 minutes.  Good job Eug!

Eug told me while she was listening to ‘Tear Drops on My Guitar’ (which was kid friendly in case her mom asked) that when I was in the washroom earlier, she was playing with her hair and asked him something that he didn’t understand at first.  But then her mom pointed to her hair and said that it’s the same.  So the girl was saying that Eug has the same colour hair as her too!  She’s absolutely right.  So far, we’ve felt that we stood out due to everyone’s stares, it’s very nice to know someone’s looking out for similarities.

She must’ve liked Taylor Swift a lot because after she came back to her normal self, she grabbed her sister’s pony tail for attention and shoved the other ear piece to her sister.  Her sister didn’t seem to know what to do and dropped it.  She then took both earpieces and went back to giving 110% of her attention to Taylor Swift.  It wasn’t until her mom literally grabbed her to head to their train, that she smiled and gave Eug back the headset.  She then gave each of us a sweet kiss on the cheek to say bye and hurried off with her mom and sister.

Kids are amazing.  She left us all warm and fuzzy and we forgot about the taxi driver.