--Overheard at the health center: "Alma, why don't you take one of the mosquito nets for pregnant women? The mosquitoes are really getting at your face!" Unfortunately I have yet to find the word for pimple in Kinyarwanda.
--Overheard at the market: “Alma, are you a nun? We must find you a husband immediately! We will find you a Rwandan husband in no time!”
--Overheard at the bread store/tea shop: “You are American! Take me to America! I know the visa is complicated, but you can marry me, it will be no problem!
--Responses to “If you want to marry me, you must give my father 600 cows” have included:
- Your father is crazy.
- Only President Kagame has that many cows.
- I have 800 cows. Call your father.
- They have cows in America?
- How many children does your father have? Only three?! No sons?! He cannot ask for so much!
- My favorite: And how many cows did your father give when he married your mother?
--The Kinyarwanda expression for someone who is courting/dating: umuhinzi. Also means farmer or farming. In Rwanda you are not a player, rather, you are a farmer.
--I milked a cow. It was amazing. Also really hard, but amazing. I can die happy now.
Other miscellaneous:
Check out my amazing and talented sister Daniela dance Swan Lake!
Other miscellaneous:
Check out my amazing and talented sister Daniela dance Swan Lake!
soooooo i am in my regional capital at the hostel, reading your most recent post, crying, like legit tearssss. i am laughing so hard. all those responses for the 600 cows comment??? haaaaa i loooooveeee them. miss youuuuu alma boo.
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