When I wake up in the morning, the first thing that comes to mind is praying before doing anything else. After praying, I take a quick shower, then I go to campus. On my way to campus, I meet different people going to different places and also speaking different languages, which I do not understand, but when they greet me in their language, I greet back using my language. Sometimes I feel pressure because my language is part of the ''bantu branch of the niger congo language family''Tshivenda'', and many people do not want to try my language. I feel a sense of unbelonging. When I arrived at the campus, one of my friends is a Sotho. We always remind each other about the classes, but the huge issue is the language barrier. Sometimes I fail to understand her, especially when she says words in her Sotho language.

STERIOTYPE 

I used to believe that people who speak other languages except Tshivenda did not want to learn my language until Monday, when I met a white man speaking all eleven languages during my communication class. He even told us as a class to interact with each other using our home languages. I enjoyed that part because I became a different person.

AT NIGHT

Every time I go to my accommodation, I clean my room and cook a proper meal, especially porridge and meat, but when I cook my porridge, I cook it in a traditional way. The fun part is that most of the girls from other tribes always ask to taste my traditional porridge and I teach them how to cook it.