“I was so beautiful.”
Ouma: “Here, have some mushrooms.”
Me: “Ouma… those are marshmallows.”
I should carry around a pen with the way that people recognize me here.
What Ouma thinks about dieting.
“As long as you learn from your mistakes, that’s what’s important. Better to learn now while you’re young.”
“As long as we’re together, it doesn’t matter what we do. I don’t need anything… Maybe there will be a place that we can go dancing.”
“What are you calling a cab for? You’re wasting such a lot of money. I can walk!”
“That’s not a hill. That’s a bloody mountain”
“My curfew used to be at midnight. I would come home late and take off my shoes as to not wake my parents up.”
This woman can dance