It's not about the crutch, the crows and the meridian It's morning and I'm sitting in my chair, sleeping up a few sleepless nights, thinking about what I still have to do before I leave for the Czech Republic, and waiting for my husband to return with the fresh buns I sent him for. I feel like a meridian....
Hooray for culture One fine day my phone rang and I received an invitation from my friend Dana for an Angolan ballet. In fact, at the time of my euphoric agreement, I had no idea that the word balé meant ballet. I enthusiastically told my husband that we had a program the next evening and finally, after four years of...
Instead of a gift with a story of shopping with adventure. While in the Czech Republic I devoured so-called gifts with a story, after two years of living in Luanda, I longed for shopping with adventure. Not that buying food at the local market was not interesting for me, certainly not, but despite the fact that I also had very...
Talent or nature? Unfortunately, I was not given a rhythm or anything that would fit in my fingernail, but on the contrary, Mother Nature gave me a good portion of shyness. And shyness is something that is rarely seen in Angola, and sometimes I feel that the Angolans don't even know the word and its meaning. While with a...
* This time I supplemented my story with an excellent recipe :-) You will find it at the end of the article :-) Last night, my husband and I were sitting in front of the TV watching a movie that we were both looking forward to. While watching the action scenes of the film in silence, the advertising that distracted...
Thanks to the influence of Europe, traditional clothing is gradually disappearing from Africa, and fashion trends here are increasingly determined by European and American consumer fashion interwoven with high-quality and at first sight unrecognizable pipes from China. Nevertheless, the local women still retain their femininity, which Europeans and...
Not that I was suffering from a lack of food in Angola, not at all, but over time, I began to miss some foods. I started to miss kefir, or something as ordinary as cottage cheese. So I set out to search the Internet again, but even a few days of hard searching brought me nothing out of the...
Do you know what they say "bread said, the biggest slice"? So that's exactly my case with bread in Angola. When I was still living in the Czech Republic, I didn't like bread very much and I preferred to reach for a bun or a croissant. Bread came to me so ordinary and I didn't like slicing it :-) Sometimes...
As I wrote, every time my brother-in-law comes from our family farm, where he farms, he brings a lot of fruits and vegetables. It is an amount that cannot be consumed, so I make jams, fruit pulps, fruit skins or dry fruits. Not a drop in vain :-) This time he brought us a few kilos of avocado, which, however,...