Friday fun with "Gotwsa"

One my my old 2nd grade students lives behind my house in "shanti kwa" (what she says as she point in the direction of her family's tin shack). Her name is Gotwsajwang.

She walked home with me last Friday and I invited her in to help me finish my litchis. She said something to me in Setswana and I didn't understand. She waved goodbye and ran off.

Minutes later she ran back to my house and had changed out of her school uniform.

I put on Finding Nemo and she and Refentse sat on a small wooden bench and laughed and smiled, probably no understanding a whole lot. Gotwsa kept tapping me on the arm saying "look Mma Suzanney!"

After we watched movie we moved on to coloring on my room floor and then onto my laptop to listening to every Rihanna song I had. Gotswa loves her and danced and sang for me to each song.

She found a few Spanish songs and instantly started dancing a little merengue step to them, very cute!

The time flew by and soon it was past 7 pm and I kept trying to tell her I wanted to watch Generations at 8 and bathe before. She instead swept my room for me and then went out my house and did handstands against the house's wall for about 15 minutes. I told her "ke tla tlapa jaanong - bye bye Gotwsa!!" And then she finallly got it.

I had just stepped in my little plastic tub and then I heard her voice. "Mma Suzanney! Mma! Wa utlwa??" She was back outside my window asking if I could her her haha. I yelled back that I was bathing and when I later opened the door she had left.


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