CAPE 1 month!


It has almost been a month since I left Mozambique and many experiences had already happened to myself.

I left Mozambique crying inside more than outside: the luggages I had closed few hours before were full of life, a life I did not want to leave there. The life re-born myself, made me aware of many different qualities I have, accepting the bad ones and carrying on into this amazing journey called life, making me happy everyday, day by day.

In Mozambique I have lived my childhood: a fantastic experience I would never forget. Family, friends, lovers are part of who I am now. All the people who came to my life, all the people I have met, the ones who know that they have changed my life in a positive way.

Somebody few days ago asked me what it means for me being happy. For him it was, he said, love and to be loved. I answered that for me it is waking up in the morning, seeing the Sun raising and live a life I want to live with no regrets, no I could not do it, no but.

One of you, before to leave and move here in Cape Town have told me to start to fly: yes we can fly if we want!!! Just believing in ourselves!

Off course negative things are going to happen too, like my cloned debit card and all my savings from Mozambique gone in only 10 days, but what can I do, kill my self?

Still one of you again use to say that money are only energy, a way to get trough things, they are a tool, not the aim. But not for everybody it is the same!

Yes I left Mozambique, I left the colors of that amazing Country, the smell, the noises which I used to feel and which I started to recognize after a while. The MOZAMBICANIDADE you can experience only going to Mozambique and trying to get into the culture, from inside. Stop travelling around as a tourists and taking pictures like crazy Japanese. Just stop, think where you are, think again that you are in a Country where you were not born, but still it can re-born you again in another person, opening your mind to other people, uses, costumes and way of life.

ISCH, YOUWE, AWENA, KANIMAMBO, BATER UM PAPO, TOMAR UM COPO, TOU A BAZAR, TOU A PEDIR, E' CASADA, ATRAçADO, CHAPA...how can you understand this words only travelling? You simply cannot! We can complain about many things just because they are different from the way we think. We can complain, I do not want to. Or maybe I will, I did somehow when it gets too much unsustainable for me I will, but first I will enjoy.

I have left Mozambique, and I cannot hear anymore from my window people shouting from the cells, the tape machine TIC TIC TIC and AKM 47 TCICIC TCICIC!!!!!!!! My big house, my garden, all of you, who made me crying, who made me laughing, who made me angry or hungry)))., who made me love, who loved me, and who didnt like me.....mhmhhm!!! Who hurt me and who just tried to understand who I am and what I feel, friends, not friends.........my bicycle...the freedom to feel life as a warm wind in your face, days, nights, dancing, and then seeing the sun rising o the sun setting from MIRADOR o COSTA DO SOL.

The childhood just ended........new chapter is coming!!!

Now seagulls and birds!! Big nature, sea, mountains, city, crowded or empty.....You can decide!!!

Now I know, looking to my picture, that moving here...I needed...new ideas, new energies, new feelings, and fear at the same time. This Country is a microcosm and a lot to discover and to experience.

From outside ...its quite impossible to image to live in other contexts...or black, or white or coloured!!!! Its not easy to find a mix!!! Real one. And so different from Mozambique....TOU PEDIR has been substituted to SOME CHANGE PLEASE! The MAGIA MoçAMBICANA disappeared!!!Smiling faces, beautiful shapes, big expressive eyes...PUFF!!!! I observe and find sadness, hard and strong features.................

I went to visit Good Hope Cape and see how we are nothing in compare to the amazing nature surrounding us. The 2 Oceans meet and the water strongly hurts the rocks, which million of years ago were linked to the American coasts. Winds blowing at high speed and colourful flowers, beautiful plants became solid as soft.

I went to dance salsa and listen to Cape Jazz into the coloured suburbs on a Tuesday night till 4 in the morning.

I went to Guguleto, no actually its wrong....ok Guguleto is one of the poorest settlement around Cape Town. Nobody goes there...to dangerous. But 5 years ago a man, the owner of a butchery had the great idea of transforming the butchery into a small MERCADO DO PESCE em Maputo, but here you only buy and eat meat....in Guguleto...every Suday whites people go there to feel the emotion to be in a black area and enjoying the same use...alchool and meat and music...yes there is a DJ from 11 a.p. Till 11 p.m. But you only stay there, no one street before, not after!!!

Jogging to Seapoint when the sun is setting is amazing....colours and energy from the water, the sun.....

The weather can change in 5 minutes, it depends where you are, I which area of the city, from warm and sunny, to cold and freezing, to windy, to rain and back to the Sun.....

I started to do an intern with a Community Law Centre preparing an assessment for a Conference about how South Africa is implementing different Treaties and Convention on Human Rights level.

Today I am gong to visit Pollsmouth Prison, 370 women detained, some with children...its one of the best prison in the Country in terms of organization, services, assistance....I am going to tell you later on!!!

And I found a job!
The minimum rage is 7 R. per hour....a loaf of bread costs 8 R!!!
I found a job for 20 R. as a receptionist..............))))((((

Laughing, smiling or crying is, in the end, only 2 opposite way to answer to event happening in life. I can cry and smile and the same time too!!!

But in the end its important who we are and what we feel more than the money we earn and we spent????

Continuing on my journey and keep in touch with you guys....

lots love

TINA

Vivete la Vita!!!