Noloholo, Day 54: The Old Elephant

[cswallow]

My mom calls me and the Chinese feels odd in my mouth, my tongue curling around the foreign shape of the these words, refusing to go where it must. Although I’ve now memorized over 400 Swahili words, my recall is still very slow. So slow that even though I can understand what people ask me, they’ll often walk away muttering “you don’t understand

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It IS sad...

[anonymous]

So, what's ultimately to become of her? It's a conundrum.