So I'm back in the United States and I'm going to try not to be too emotional. I'll just list the things about Botswana and my life there that I miss.
- The friendships I made including Eddy, Rudo, Clive and Sarah
- Master chef sessions on the couch with Sarah
- Being brave enough to think about writing as a life style
- Not comparing myself to what Georgetown says is success
- Asking myself hard questions
- Trying to get off the combi and saying "Ema mo stopo" all wrong
- Eddy's mom's home cooking
- Teaching students and learning so much from my students
- Pie City's Chicken Peri Peri Pie.... Mmmm
- Rooibos tea-- Why didn't I take some with me?
- Screaming into skype with my mom because the connection was so bad
- Dry weather
- Zebras soccer
- The Poetry: at UB Writer's Workshop, at Kwest, with Exodus, and with friends
- Being myself with friends who I could take the time to hang out with
- The calmness of it all
- People never understanding what I said because I speak too quickly and the look on their faces when I repeated and they still didn't understand
- The moments when my friends and I would have to stop our conversation to explain to one another what one word meant to me versus to them
- Mogul's Indian Food (and later delivery!)
- The hilariousness and frustration of talking to people and not getting a response
- The time to think and learn
- The slow pace, and the appreciation for quality of life
- The classes and students who thought of the world in a way American students don't
- And maybe pretending to be Siamese twins . . .
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