coffee shop musings

I’m sitting in a coffee shop this morning. This is a rare experience and one that I miss since moving to Mozambique. Drew had an appointment with the Embassy this morning for a new passport and then had a list of errands, none of which required my presence. I was quite excited to come to a coffee shop for a couple of hours. It’s reminiscent of the many many hours I spent at coffee shops in Lincoln during college and grad school. I found this coffee shop in Maputo that reminds me of an American coffee shop. There are people from so many different nationalities here! I even think that the people sitting 2 tables away from me are American (WOW!) Different colors and different languages. It seems that when you travel outside of the US you find so may more people that are traveling too. I have so many things to blog about that I don't know where to start. Perhaps I'll start by making a list 1. A trip to a surprisingly abandoned resort with a hand-drawn map 2. The abandoned hotel adventure in Xai-Xai 3. The may fines and rules of Mozambique a. Things where people should be b. Hand out the window c. Inside of car being unorganized d. Cannot use bright lights, even when no one is on the road? e. Cannot use horn 4. Different terminology, for example, white coffee. 5. Adventures of Geckoing 6. Meeting new people in Nelspruit, SA. Hiking, and the long drop 7. My puppy and the soon addition of a kitten! 8. Growth of the Nursery & the "Rat" 9. Security at our house, guards 10. Electricity problems 11. My NEW FRIDGE!! (well, new to me) 12. Much much more I think I'll start with "white coffee." Appropriate as I am in a coffee shop currently. The other weekend while I was in South Africa, I noticed that there was two types of coffee - Black and white. I've never heard coffee with milk called White coffee and I find it quite interesting that in a country where color is such an important issue, semi-recent Apartheid (segregation was the law). Why would they call their coffee with milk "white coffee." Interestingly, I haven't seen the term "white coffee" anywhere else. More specifically, I haven't seen it here in Mozambique. Random musings from this morning...