"Do white people drink milk?" "Yes, I think they do."

Or as Alice said to me, Alice who has lived in Nkhata bay for the last 4 years, who speaks Tonga almost fluently and who is married to Kumbu (a local celebrity there),

"Oh cource we do, don't you know this is how we keep our skin so white??"

We had to laugh. We were walking back from the Nkhata Bay hospital. One of the volunteers had strange blister growths on her hands and feet and we took her to the hospital. It really is funny to hear locals talking because they can sometimes say the most random comical things. And not for one moment do I think the sayer of this was truely ignorant of the fact that white people drink milk. It was just comic and funny to make that statement in the moment.

Once, while in a dala dala in Tanzania the bus conductor leaned out and asked one of the ladies walking "mama unene*, nenda Bububu?" Fat mother, are you going to Bububu? KiSwahili is rude and direct in its simpleness. You gotta love language in Africa.

*nene may be the wrong word for fat, but it is something like this. My dictionary is far from me!