Hi everybody!
So I’ve been in South Africa for about a week now. We spent a couple days in Johannesburg, which was very dirty, and then made our way to Durban. I’m currently living with a family in Cato Manor, a township in Durban. A township is like a suburb, but poor. It’s all government housing that has been allocated to the mainly African people that have applied for it. I’m learning zulu, which IS a clicking language. It’s so hard to learn! Words that are only one syllable in english will be five in zulu, and will be different depending if the word is plural, who is talking, what you are talking about, and your relation to the thing/place.
My “mama”’s name is Buyi and her granddaughter Ntombikayase (don’t worry I can’t say it either) lives with us. She’s 7 and also goes by Queen. Yesterday I went for a walk around the neighborhood with Queen and all of the neighborhood kids started tagging along..soon I was walking with about 8 little African children..I felt like a page right out of National Geographic or something.
Anyway, sorry, no really interesting food here. The restaurants here are really similar to ones at home, and serve mostly American style food. KFC is really popular here and there are more here than in the US. Yesterday, while Mama Buyi and I were visiting her mother and brother, I was served goat meat! It’s actually not so bad. Although I don’t really like lamb, so I definitely wasn’t about to love goat. I was also served avocado…they have these avocados that are the size of small melons..i was served a fourth of an avocado that was the equivalent of an entire avocado at home and expected to eat the whole thing like a piece of melon.
I’ll keep everyone updated and try to get some pictures up!
Much love to everyone at home in the states, I miss you all!
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