About deputation
“When we go to churches, everyone knows me, but I don’t know them.”
“Everywhere we go, people say, “I know you.” But they don’t really know me.”
“Now we’re finishing our deputation, I won’t be a missionary kid anymore and that makes me sad. But mainly just because it’s ANOTHER change.”
[When encouraged to put his nametag on at a camp because it would make it easier to make friends] “I don’t want to make friends here, because they’ll only be temporary friends.”
About their new environment
“Everything is changing. And now the weather is changing too. I’ve always just had clothes, not summer clothes and winter clothes.” [Dar Es Salaam, being closer to the equator has pretty consistent temperatures all year round.]
“How can it be light this late? That’s stupid!” [Dar Es Salaam, being closer to the equator does not have big fluctuations in daylight hours like Australia.]
About fitting in
“In Tanzania, I was just me but here you can’t be yourself. Like, here it’s size X for shorts or size Y for shirts but in Tanzania I just went to the fundi [tailor] and they made it me-sized.”
Upon waking up in the morning
“I had a dream where we moved to a house in the middle of nowhere and there were lots of pets to cuddle and I just wanted to go home. I think it was a transition dream.”
Categories: Cross-cultural parenting
Tamie Davis
Tamie Davis is an Aussie living in Tanzania, writing at meetjesusatuni.com.
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