March 6 / 10 - Now its time to play the waiting game…… sigh…… and….. nnnnnnnn……. NNNnnnnn….. nnnnnooooW! NOW! Nope. My mistake, please continue to wait patiently like everyone else.
People have incredible talents for waiting without complaining. As you may already know, when things start at 10, it means 12:30 at the earliest, and if they say ‘punto!’ (sharp) 40 mins is the magic number to wait after that mark ( and you will usually still be the early one).
What is fair is fair... Waiting … No one seems to mind to wait for hours on end and eventually not even get what they were waiting for. Tia Cacilda and I were waiting for a shipment of dry fish to come in to buy in bulk quantities for the girls’ center. We got their early morning and waited over lunch and until 17:30. When the boat finally came in the woman, whom accumulated AFTER us and were patiently waiting doing each others hair, got up in a frenzy tumbled down to the boats and claimed sacks of fish. In the end we didn't even get what we were waiting for. Part of life. Go in the next day to repeat and perhaps get lucky?
March 8 / 10 - There is nothing like a visitor coming to visit for one to realize how much they appreciate the place they are in. Jon, a colleague working up in Tete province, came to Machanga Saturday and stayed the Sunday and Monday. The girls with singing and dancing greeted him warmly, taking his load off his back and clapping. I love it when people get so overwhelmed in these kinds of situations. It was nice to talk English and show a piece of my life as well as the girls life to another person with the same Western prospective. I can say I felt quiet proud of our little district of Machanga. There is not much out this way, but what we have is wonderful! And the people are what make it what it is. He fell in love with all my dearest neighbors and friends and they likewise were overjoyed with another white to come to their parts of Moz.
March 12 / 10 – Helped Tia Amelia transplant rice. We found a giant snail. We put it in the fire. I ate it. Chewy.
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Please, in the future refer to them as escargo. And did you eat it with melted garlic butter?
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