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THAT person took a CONDOM!!!!
10:15 AM, Wednesday, 14 February, 2007
This week at the university is Orientation Week.
We have some lovely first year students, all bright-eyed and busy-tailed, ready to become Papua New Guinea's next group of leading academics. They're enthusiastic, walking around with timetables and notebooks clutched anxiously to their chests. How sweet. How inspiring.
But we know what they're up to. 36% of surveyed first year students in 2006 admitted that they were already sexually active, but not using condoms - most said that it was because they didn't know where to get them or they weren't available. So my program has begun a "You can't escape the condoms!" campaign.
I have placed condoms on every available (allowed) surface on campus. I'm leaving boxes of them all over the place and refilling them all the time. So far this week I've left about 3000 male and 1000 female condoms at various places on the campus, and I'm not facing too much opposition at the moment about it.
So it's all going well. Except in the library. This is my main focal point of distribution on campus because all of the new students come for a tour. I have a table covered with educational stuff, and piles and piles of condoms. I keep on piling them up casually in a "take me, take me!" kind of way.
But every time I leave somebody comes along and arranges them in pyramids, or in squares or rectangles, or some other fantastical creation so that if one person takes one little box of condoms the whole structure will be integrally compromised and everyone will know THAT person took a CONDOM!!!!
They're not looking very "take me, take me!" any more. They're looking more "Look but don't touch me!". I can't figure out who's doing it. I'm sure they're just trying to help. But the condoms are there to take, not to make pretty!
I'm off now to paint my face green and brown, put on my army fatigues and do some recon action to figure out who the culprit is. Or maybe just ask around.
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hepi valentines day!
Posted by: kk | February 14, 2007 11:19 AM
Any solution to the condom mystery yet? I'm waiting with baited breath...
Posted by: Tori | February 15, 2007 2:23 PM
No solution yet, Tori. Today they are stacked in a pyramid. I just don't know what to do. How can I smash somebody's hard-worked-on pyramid? It'd be like smashing a small child's sandcastle...
Posted by: Carolyn | February 15, 2007 2:52 PM