Thursday, August 14, 2008

you do the hokey pokey and thats what its all about

I ate Chicken feet, i was going to like try and work that into a story or just causal mention it but really the fact is to traumatic to throw off handedly. I ate chicken feet, you know the things chickens walk on...yeah i ate that.... now that that is off my chest i can like tell you the story.

Today is my first day back from being in the community for about 7 days, I stayed with a few different people, first with my original host family, the host sister is named Virgina, then Nombolalo, then Lebo, then Thabisle (thabi for short.
My stay with Virgina and Nombolalo was fairly normal, when i first got to Virgina's i couldn't express how happy i was to be back staying in the community and it was cute she was talking to someone on her phone and i worked out what she was saying in siswati and she said "I'm happy sister Lacey is staying with us again" cute!

I have few funny stories from lebo's house.
Lebo's great Uncle has a job so their family has a little more money then most and a little more luxury's then most...like a black and white TV, So I'm sitting there with Lebo's Gogo (grandma) and her great Gogo, and we where watching WWE and it was hilarious cause he Gogo was like Cheering and stuff, then she turns to me and is like "Lacey who is your favorite?" I only know the name of one wrestler so i say "CM Punk" and she looks and me and says "CM Punk is a good man" like he saved her life or something it was Hilarius!

Then at the same house, for dinner the next day, Lebo cooked Cow liver and i really couldn't hack that ( i had no idea what was waiting for me two days from then!) so i just said i wasn't hungry and her Gogo is so like upset cause she thinks I'm dieting so she goes into this big self esteem speech with me "Lacey! Jesus likes big girls and he will help you!" was pretty much my favorite line ever....but i also kinda wanted to be like "actually Gogo i love who i am i just dint love cow liver!"

But then...i go over to Thabi's house and the first night we have tin fish, called Pilcards, which i ate as to not offended anyone and when i go into the kitchen to help her cook for the second night i was relived to not smell fish, Thabi says "Lacey grab the small pot" i do and i am horrified to see what I'm pretty sure is a Halloween decoration of severed chicken limbs in the pot of whats is supposed to be supper. She puts 3 on my plate and i just sit and stare...Chicken fingers will never be the same for me...never.So i stick to the side of pap and just kind of observer...am i really supposed to each this thing with toenails? but i have a back up plan!
We took thabi and her family for savory pancakes and she could hardly eat it, so i started talking about that and i was like "Thabi i don't know if i can eat 3, how bout leave me one" so she does, then i pick it up and the rest is history....