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Inhaca weekend
Here’s a preview of the weekend we just had on Inhaca island. I still don’t have Internet at home but trust me, the pictures will be worth waiting for. Paradise beaches, seafood and Mozambican hipsters. I will tell you more about it when I post the pictures. Thank you friends and new friends for a perfect weekend, it was meningue nice!
Fill in the blanks
I am so happy with my blank paged Moleskine. I had mentioned that I wanted to start drawing and doodling again so my jackalope sister made sure I would be able to use my creative side when travelling these distant lands. She didn’t only get me the notebook, she also made my friends and colleages write little goodbye’s and greetings on the first pages of it. And then, of course, she signed it herself – the most graphically perfect way one can sign a notebook.
So now, whenever I want to relax, I doodle. And whenever I miss somebody, I take a look at their words and funny little drawings. The big pirate ship with the text “DON’T GET KIDNAPPED!” from Afrah is probably the best one. And Josies self-portrait, of course. haha
Good morning!
Hostel mornings
The hostel is playing Pink Floyd and it feels like a real backpacker morning, you know, one of those where you really don’t care what time it is. The rain adds on to the feeling and makes me think of that one very rainy week in Rio when we watched almost 50 movies, just hanging out.
Funky Monkeys is the name of this place here in Nelspruit and we are surely coming back some day. Now a movie, then packing up and hopping on the bus back home, to Maputo.
The bracelet
Overall, I’ve had a really nice birthday today. Now we’re in a hostel here in Nelspruit and I am getting really inspired to be a real backpacker for a moment. The bracelet is a part of the “United Against Malaria” campaign, and a part of a birthday present I really appreciate. Thank you, new friends!
Nelspruit
Samba!
It wasn’t anything near the best night of my life, but those of you who know me know that the best way to make me happy is to let me dance.. and that I did. Tons and hours. Samba!
Now 2,5 hours of sleep ahead of me and my very tired legs. Goodnight to myself. And thank you for the very sweet messages.
Birthdays with strangers
So, as every year, comes the day before my birthday.
And, as so many times before, I am in a distant place, where the people I spend my days with aren’t the people who actually care about and know me. I don’t generally take birthdays and anniversaries very seriously, but they do awake some sort of nostalgia that makes me give an extra thought to people that I would like to spend my days with and that I miss for various reasons. I have spent birthdays in many different parts of the world, with new friends and strangers that many times have given me a great time full of laughter and dancing. This year I have only been around here for about a week and I will be crossing the border to South Africa tomorrow to buy groceries and get some passports stamped which naturally isn’t very exciting. It will probably be nice to be able to buy something that is not ridiculously overpriced and to extend my very limited wardrobe when I have the chance, maybe spend some hours by a hostel pool. I might go dancing with friendly strangers tonight as there is some sort of carnival here in Maputo but the party usually starts at 24 in the night, and I need to be on a bus at 7.20 tomorrow morning. Anyway, what I wanted to tell you is that we will stay in the little town named Nelspruit until Sunday morning, and I probably won’t have wifi all day, so no calling or hugging tomorrow, my darlings – I’m sorry, you are all truly missed.