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Hey y'all How has it been? Has your summer been as magic as it should have, or was it just a sequence of uneventful days going by, one after the other? This girl has had an amazing few months since the last time I wrote. I may write about it, maybe not, who knows 🤷🏾‍♀️ …

Counting in french and all the little habits we are keeping

Hello beautiful people, Happy new Year, Happy new decade!! I am writing today with an excitement for all that 2020 holds to say the least. Many of the blogs I read, videos I watched, people I've talked to, have a lot of expectation for the coming year/decade. Regardless of how long January felt to you, …

Christmas Chez nous : How I officially learned Santa may not be real

*** How I discovered Santa may not be bringing presents at home*** So, here is the thing, I kind of already knew that the whole idea of : an old man flying on reindeers distributing gifts to all the kids in the whole world in just one night did not make any sense at all. …

Voices of Failure and Cups of Celebration

Voices in the background telling you about how much you fail Voices in the background silencing the little truth you thought you had Voices in the background  not wanting any good for you Voices in the background...  Voices meant to be silenced by you. Hard to picture any success when your attention is focused on …

Back and better

Shamelessly checking in after 759 years lol There comes a time in one's life when things are confusing, blurry, when things do not make any sense at all. In such time, life is simply about waking up in the morning, seeing how the day goes by then going to sleep. Most of the time one …

I saw Love, I did.

I saw it For real I saw love. When daddy and I where hugging at the airport I saw it, I felt it in my mom's care... I saw it in my brothers' eyes and in each one of those I am privileged to call family. I saw it. Trust me I did... When those …

Bus Rides’ Talks

oc transpo bus Meeting People on the bus Talking to them as if you were best friends This guy on the bus told me he was going through a hard time He had just broken up with his girlfriend; it was messy. A pact they made said she would quit getting drunk on alcohol if …

Umukenyezi: But What if?

What if, I do not cry when they take my baby saying I am a bad mom? Will you let them do without caring about how I feel? What if, tears do not flow on my cheeks when he rapes me? Will you tell me I was agreeing with him? What if, I do not …

Umukenyezi: She is called woman

She was raped, tortured and abused She was told that she is nothing, and would probably be always used for pleasure;  She will live with her pain forever. But, she is still called woman. She is called woman, because she sometimes swims the deepest oceans, climbs the highest mountains, hides her pain. She is called …

Mama

Umukenyezi : Mama

Cheers to the mothers out there and Maman Chris in particular ❤

Chronicles of a Third World Elite

She was a smart student, and not because all parents say they were. I actually stumbled upon some of her high school transcripts one day, and they were spotless. I was pleasantly surprised (not to say that I expected her to be dumb or anything). She could have become a scientist, an engineer, a doctor or something… if her mother hadn’t asked her to go to nursing school instead. She was the second (and most responsible, dare I say) child in a family of nine. Her single mum needed help – read, an extra income – to take care of the little ones. Therefore, she couldn’t afford an education that lasts “forever”, asking for money, instead of making it… so she “had” to get into the workforce as soon as possible. Besides, if she had been “too educated”, she probably would have “scared” potential husbands away: if people say that…

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