"are you a prostitute?"

A question asked to me today while walking the streets of Freetown. It seems unlikely that this would be the case. I doubt many western women would choose to travel to one of the poorest countries in the world and adopt this profession. I'd be competing with many local women, left with little choice but to turn to prostitution in order to survive. It would hardly be worth the air fare. So far men here have been pretty pervy. Also stuff was stolen from my luggage at the airport during transit. The police are so far refusing to give me a copy of the report I made as they want to extract cash from me first. And I stubbed my toe. I have had two hours sleep in the last 40. Despite this Freetown seems like a lively place although insanely frantic. It has an incredibly beautiful setting merging into the rainforest covered mountains and clouds to the north and the ocean to the south. And I had a good club sandwich for lunch.