Mama Miriam, itjommie yam (my friend)
The sunset today, too beautiful really to try and copy on a photo
I hope these are the last of the winter days trying to have their say, because I must say it’s been pretty cold the last couple of days and I’m longing for sunshine. My whole body aches for sun… I know I can’t really complain since this is probably one of the places on earth with the mildest winters…but yet I can’t help myself.
I am very thankful that this time I survived quite a lot of rain with no further incidences. Even got some peaceful sleep and filled up a lot of bottles of rainwater.
I’ve been having some people make comments lately that I didn’t quite understand. It’s happened a couple of times when I was out walking that some of the locals en route were having conversations with me and pointed to my face saying the word ‘umhle’. I kind of assumed they were talking about my sunglasses and that they liked it and wanted me to give it to them. I wasn’t exactly sure though, so I would just give them a strange look that meant, no sorry, I’m not going to give you my shades…
So today I finally found out that they were saying that I’m beautiful….! Now I feel slightly embarrassed, but mostly good. It’s nice when people call you beautiful wherever you go. That surely never happened when I was living in Cape Town or anywhere else… Anyway, I really want to get to understand this language better!
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