foobleen

Are you male or female?

When OP says he's never been stared at more in his life, he isn't joking. I've met people here (American living in Russia) who have never seen a black person before. I can only imagine how you felt your first week or so in country OP lol.

Yeah, I get stares when I'm just speaking English with my wife, and we live in a city of half a million people.

You have an Afro and you speak English, heads are exploding.

What exactly does that mean? I tried to look it up, but obviously my google-fu skills are not up to par.