My good friend Dikeledi serves up porridge (bogobe) for the family in this picture. Bogobe is the staple food; it's made from a ground corn, and served in generous proportions at each meal. Many people here ask me what the staple food in America is. I tell them hamburger buns. Dikeledi is the Induna's wife (Head Man) and Mokhurane's mother. The word dikeledi means tears.





This is my best friend Mokhurane. She's drawing a sign that reads "Congrat- ulations Jill and Aaron!" in Sotho. Everyone was really excited to help me with the wedding gift.







These are kids playing a popular game that's a little like keep-away. Can you find the dolls?





The bicycle is a popular form of transportation here, but not nearly as popular as taxis or just walking. I talked this gentleman into posing for me on his way home from work. That's my little sister on the right.











My host father is a teacher at the primary school, and in his spare time he mends shoes. It's a skill he learned from his father.








Mokhurane sometimes helps me wash clothes-which is such a blessing! I wash at the school because it's so much easier than hauling the water home. The bright blue bucket on the right is also my bathtub.












These are some friends of my teenage host-niece doing hair.















Here my host mother is filling our bathtub with water. It's a lovely tiled bathing room, but I'm a little lazy to haul all that water so I use a basin.









And I leave you with a lingering look at one of my most frequented village haunts-the family pit toilet.

I had so much fun doing this project! I'm lucky to have a half-nephew and a new half-niece-in law, that would inspire me to record some of the things that are part of my everyday life, here in Tickey Line.

Congratulations Jill and Aaron!