This is just a bit of Culture Exchange for ya,
1. Picking your nose is perfectly normal, especially when having a conversation with someone. I mean really digging up there, up to the first joint.
2. Children playing with knives, sucking on plastic, including sachete wrappers (A small plastic packet full of alchohol).
3. Childern playing with fire
4. Setting a onfire right next to a huge pile of flamable material and homes
5. Cooking in a completly smoked out kitchen with your infant on your back and children sitting around in the room.
6. Addressing people by color, ethnicity, race: "Mzungu/Azungu" (White person, white wizard), "White Woman!" "MaChina!" (Anyone who looks remotely chinese. Normally kungu-fu motions are added.)
7. Shouting a marriage proposal from the back of a moving Matola.
8. Have your boobs hanging out, whether breast feeding or forgetting to tuck it back in after breast feeding. Proximity to other people does not matter.
9. To wear ass-less/crotchless pants for chidren...or even no pants.
10. Wear dirty, nasty, torn, stained, patched up clothes.
11. Not to shave legs or underarms.
12. Not to wear deodorant.
13. It is a compliment to tell someone they are getting fat or looking fat today.
To be continued
Bad English Phrases:
I am Just used: This means that you are used to somethign or somethign does not bother you.
We are just around: It means you will be in the area or not going anywhere, a way to say goodbye.
To my side : It means like in my opinion, or how you feel.
I am doing WHAT? ____ : It is a habbit Malawians have of saying WHAT? in the middle of a sentence and answering themselves
(Sighing) MALAWI! : It is a random thing malawians do when there is nothing else to say or a long silence. The sigh out and say the name of the country or the district, or the village. Its weird.
What and What: Like excetera or this and that.
Footing: Walking somewhere
Little by Little: Self explanatory, just like, bit by bit makes a bundle.
Ujeni: Whatcha-ma-callit
How far?: People will randomly shout at you asking where you're going, whether they know you or not.
I want to know you: Obviously they want to know you.
Not so?: Meaning, Is it?
1. Picking your nose is perfectly normal, especially when having a conversation with someone. I mean really digging up there, up to the first joint.
2. Children playing with knives, sucking on plastic, including sachete wrappers (A small plastic packet full of alchohol).
3. Childern playing with fire
4. Setting a onfire right next to a huge pile of flamable material and homes
5. Cooking in a completly smoked out kitchen with your infant on your back and children sitting around in the room.
6. Addressing people by color, ethnicity, race: "Mzungu/Azungu" (White person, white wizard), "White Woman!" "MaChina!" (Anyone who looks remotely chinese. Normally kungu-fu motions are added.)
7. Shouting a marriage proposal from the back of a moving Matola.
8. Have your boobs hanging out, whether breast feeding or forgetting to tuck it back in after breast feeding. Proximity to other people does not matter.
9. To wear ass-less/crotchless pants for chidren...or even no pants.
10. Wear dirty, nasty, torn, stained, patched up clothes.
11. Not to shave legs or underarms.
12. Not to wear deodorant.
13. It is a compliment to tell someone they are getting fat or looking fat today.
To be continued
Bad English Phrases:
I am Just used: This means that you are used to somethign or somethign does not bother you.
We are just around: It means you will be in the area or not going anywhere, a way to say goodbye.
To my side : It means like in my opinion, or how you feel.
I am doing WHAT? ____ : It is a habbit Malawians have of saying WHAT? in the middle of a sentence and answering themselves
(Sighing) MALAWI! : It is a random thing malawians do when there is nothing else to say or a long silence. The sigh out and say the name of the country or the district, or the village. Its weird.
What and What: Like excetera or this and that.
Footing: Walking somewhere
Little by Little: Self explanatory, just like, bit by bit makes a bundle.
Ujeni: Whatcha-ma-callit
How far?: People will randomly shout at you asking where you're going, whether they know you or not.
I want to know you: Obviously they want to know you.
Not so?: Meaning, Is it?
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