Three things today.
1) I am looking forward to tommorow. haha. Fridays are nice here, feels like a different attitude in QwaQwa, people are preparing for the weekend. And as I told you sister, I get to visit some nice fruit factory workers as well. Also I get to eat my favorite food. Meesely (granola) mixed with yogurt and fruit slices. my my.
Oh!! Also. There is a big rugby deal going on right now. It is like a football fix for me. It is called the super 14, it is spanned over pretty much the exact timing that I am here. It involves only austraila, new zealand and south africa. Each of those countries has some teams, for a grand total of 14 teams. Each week, usually on a saturday, our local team, the cheetahs, play. It is so fun, everyone that you watch with yells and jumps like folks do at home about hockey and such.
2) take a look at this picture. I described Kokobela to some of you. He is the boy standing in this picture. He gets kind of cross like this when I leave. The girl in the picture though, oh my. I have tried to describe her before. Her name is Moleboheng, and seriously she walks like a duck, or an old old spanish lady. She is the one who (no longer) hates white people.
3) And three. I will try and phrase this as closely to how I felt today. Imagine yourself, the song Beautiful Day by U2 has just come on. Now you are driving through the village of a place that you have wanted to be for close to ten years. Is it possible, that some how, in that moment, you realize the great importance of a few things, and you loose the value in worrying about a few others?
These two pictures are of some of the less crowded hills in Qwa Qwa.
bia bia dankie,
and dont forget, I would love to hear from you about all of your lives!!
handshakes, hugs and kisses.
4 comments:
Hi Nicole, this is uncle Duane. It is Friday morning, 10:50, and I just finished looking at the posted photos and reading about your activities. Looks like a very beautiful place you are in and it also looks as if you are really enjoying yourself there. In about 4 hours we are on a plane to Toronto and then tomorrow morning at 7:00 we are off to Roatan, Honduras for two weeks. Ali is coming with us for the first week. Everyone in Winnipeg says HI.
Love,
Duane
i want to be where you are. just to see YOU in the context of that culture...it makes sense to me you know and i am so stinking happy for you....ok so maybe it doesn't smell but your blogs brighten my day. i hope they are bright for you my dear.
luv ya
Nic, my oh my... those pictures are pretty much breathe taking, I actually cant even comprehend that you are there in africa, ahhh that's soooo cool! Even though I miss you more then you will ever know, enjoy it cause this is amazing and the work you are doing is amazing! Love you heaps!
Loafer
I Mr KABAI LM I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU MORE ABOUT QWAQWA, AS I WAS BORN IN QWAQWA AND STILL RESIDING AT QWAQWA. ASK ME ABOUT MY HOME(ESPECIALLY ABOUT CULTURE).
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