Well, I've really been slacking on my blogger account. I've been feeling really private these days, and most of my blogging has been done on my myspace account. There is something to be said about having a circle of friends and associates to correspond with. While, I was traveliing through Africa, I posted along the way on my myspace. My trip is over, and I'm writing a few articles on the journey. That's the main reason I haven't put my photos or stories online yet.
There is no way I can sume up Southwestern Africa for you. It was the most spectacular trip I've ever been on, and I want to go back next year. It was full of adventure and excitement, of highs and lows. From camping amoung the rolling dunes of the Namib Desert to complete isolation in the Okavango Delta of Botswana. I loved every minute of Africa. I loved the fact that, as a black woman, I got a lot of attention. Men would smile in my face and ask me questions in whatever language they thought I spoke. And everywhere I went, people thought I was South African. Even in Namibia, men would yell at me in Xhosa. And at one shop, the women asked me if I was South African. Then, they told me that everything about me from my hair to my body shape was South African.
I find it funny that wherever I am, people always think I am something else. Even growing up as a kid, people in my home state would always ask me where I was from. It seems I've never belonged anywhere that I am. It is interesting to always be perceived as an outsider. Africa was the only place where people looked at me like they knew me. Liek I was something familiar.
I will blog about the nuts and bolts of my trip after my articles are published.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
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