Sika | August 23, 2009
In Mozambique the official language is Portuguese. Very few people speak English, especially where I am, up north, ‘coz there isn’t much of a tourist trade up here. They also have Makua, N’Dau, and a few other local languages, none of which I speak. Oh wait, and there’s Chichewa, which I do speak, more or [...]
Sika | August 21, 2009
Ilha de Moçambique (I’m spelling it the Portuguese way not to be pretentious or to demonstrate my cultural understanding and superior foreign language spelling skills–although it’s useful for those purposes, too, but because there’s a whole key dedicated to ç and it seems mean not to use it.) is so small that I’ve walked every [...]
Sika | August 20, 2009
There’s something about speaking in Spanish–even when I know only half of what I say will be understood. And when I understand too, even when it´s only half (because I’m listening to Portuguese), it only amplifies that feeling.
You know the sensation in your muscles when you’ve worked really really hard–so hard you can’t do anything else? [...]
Sika | August 20, 2009
This is only of interest if you’re doing the traveling.
There are NO flights from Cuamba to Nampula or vice versa. There havenºt been for years.
The train runs both ways every day except Monday. BUT, there´s only one second class car, and that runs to Nampula W,F,Su and to Cuamba Tu,Th,Sa.
You canºt get a visa at the [...]
Sika | August 20, 2009
I have written (but not typed) maybe 10 posts. Most of them need me to have time and computer to edit and upload pictures before I can post them (I know, I’ve been saying that for a while). That means that I am writing what I can about Mozambique now, but I will be going [...]
Sika | August 20, 2009
I was walking from Kris´house to meet her for lunch, and I got the usual “azungu! azungu!” that drives me crazy. One older kid was not just doing the normal excited speech that we get, but actually yelling, and seemed a bit angry. I studiously ignored him because I do not respond to kids shouting ”azungu”
He got [...]
Sika | August 17, 2009
I donºt have time for good updates right now, so just a couple quick things.
Kris says to one of her coworkers, “She is going to Mozambique.”
“Why?”
Kris answered, “Kuwona [to see]. She wants to swim in the ocean.”
“Sure?”
“Yes.”
“I hear it has salt,” he says, looking quite worried for me.
“She will be strong.”