Transformation Tuesday! ๐๐ก This is making me very emotional! Bought the last piece of furniture for my house over the weekend and thought to share with you guys the end result vs where I began 4 years ago! I worked SO HARD on this! I know my momโs proud! ๐ญ๐ญ More on my FB/IG!
Insane transformation! ๐คฏ๐ค Someone sent me these Google Earth pictures of my backyard before I took over and renovated this place. Itโs hard to believe even for me. What a journey.
My dad relocated today after 36 years of living and teaching in Botswana! He has positively impacted thousands of students in his time here. He will be missed not just by us but by all his colleagues and students at Maru-A-Pula!
Safe travels to him!!! ๐ค๐ง๐ผ
Iโve never owned a car before. 5 years working at sea, 5 years before that living in a city where it wasnโt practical to have a car so I never needed one. Definitely been missing out!
Got to see my grandad after almost 20 years. Heโs 91 years old and he drives better than me. Iโm not crying again until next year. Emotionally depleted but I feel brand new. Best day this year. ๐ค
Our social culture is so rooted in drinking sometimes I find myself avoiding people because โhanging outโ always has to include drinking. Alcohol isnโt the main character in my social life. Sometimes I just want to cook and play board games. Go on a hike. Garden. NOT DRINK.
My grandma just cut her first social media marketing cheque! ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ค At 94! ๐๐ Canโt be relying on Tlhogo Ya Pitse!! ๐๐คฃ Please share!!
#WimpyFamilyMoments
#HappyFamilyFridays
#BerekaMotsadi
When I was on My Star, the winner won P100,000 and I came second and won P15,000. I built the foundation of my first small rental home with the money. Completed the house with my college job 6 years ago and now the rent money takes care of my grandmother. ๐ฅ
Guys, please be patient with life. Breakthroughs take time! Sometimes years! And then it happens and something else will knock you down and you rise from that too. And again, and again. Please donโt give up. Life will always be ups and downs.
Best decision I ever made for myself was save money all those years and build a house. Looking back I couldโve easily spent the money elsewhere and not have anything to show for it today. Honestly the best investment Iโve ever made. โจ๐ค
#At25
is when my life changed.
My friends had all graduated. I hadnโt studied past high school. People would post graduation pictures abroad. I was still living at home, since Form 5. I felt so lost and behind.
I was so embarrassed of myself and hated being asked about my life.
I AM GOING HOOOOMEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!! ๐ซ๐ญ๐๐๐ณโ๐พโ๏ธ๐ง๐ผ๐ค Itโs been a crazy 4 months!! Thanks to everyone that assisted in getting me home!! Off to Zambia then will overnight and drive to Kasane where Iโm quarantining safari style! Lol. Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
Wimpy needs to cut me and my grandma a bigger cheque. ๐ต๐ฟ๐ฅ Ran errands today and everyone was quoting that โWimpy e a delivaraโ video. EVERYWHERE I went.
Thanks guys. Such a cool time when our grandmas can have social media marketing gigs. ๐ค
We did it Joe!! ๐ฅ๐
A few months ago we sat at a cafe and sketched the design for a community park. Today, we lauched that park for the American Embassy in collaboration with the Gaborone City Council!
KHAISA HOLDINGS PTY LTD!
Batswana, please stop saying โo tlaa bona gore o mpha bokaeโ when someone asks how much your services cost. Establish your worth and normalize being comfortable with stating it. Itโs business.
I got the first colony of bees delivered to my house yesterday! ๐๐ Cheers to my producing my own honey and having an abundance of pollinators for my garden and orchard! ๐ค๐ Next step is a small chicken coop to feed all my garden scraps/pests and produce my own eggs! Ecosystem!
Date someone you can be yourself around, PLEASE. Always sad seeing a bright personality dim their shine to try and be a more โcontainedโ version of themselves for someone. You deserve to be liked and loved exactly as you are.
I want to retire to a remote farm house and practice self sustainable living. Spend my days rearing livestock and manning my garden. Solar electricity. Borehole. Grey water system. Grow grapes and learn how to make my own wine. Make my own cheese. Goals. ๐ฏ
Lacking communication skills isnโt the flex a lot of people on here think it is. This whole ghosting, acting unbothered, not being outwardly emotional, ending things with no explanation culture; itโs nothing to brag about.
In the past 4 months Iโve planted 40+ fruit trees, 9 grape vines, lawned my backyard, started a fully netted vegetable garden and invested in more plants than Iโm willing to admit! I waited 4 years to finish my house so I could do this and Iโm loving it! ๐ญ๐ค
Botswana is the kind of place where people with progressive minds end up leaving. Almost everyone I know with something good to offer ends up leaving the country to find a place where their skill-set will be appreciated and put to good use.
Iโve always lived below my means. My varsity job I earned R16-20k plus the R3k student allowance but I only spent about R7-8k a month. Season Iโd work 11 shifts a week & clock R40-60k/month. I never acquired unnecessary costs in that time. It allowed me SO MUCH financial freedom.
HOME SWEET HOME! ๐ญโค๏ธ After 96 days at sea, 117 days total on a ship, 3 days in transit, 14 days in quarantine, 2 days to get to Gaborone, 7 days of construction on my house and 2 days of deep cleaning, I AM HOME!!!!!!!!!!!! ๐๐๐๐ WHEW!!!
On a serious note, A.T.I was the perfect candidate for this. Chaotic, passionate, relentless. He is doing EXACTLY what Botswana needs. Something radical. In your face. Shaking shit up to an audience of sheep with an inner wolf; awakening beasts within many.
Just watched โEverything Everywhere At All Onceโ and Iโll never be the same again. Life changing film. Still crying 30 minutes after the film. Masterpiece. Brilliance. Iโve never seen something so poetic. Going to reference this film for the rest of my life.
Batswana, normalize having recreational activities that donโt involve drinking! ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ Our livers are tired! We can do dinner and games, a movie night, a picnic, a hike. We donโt have to ALWAYS be drinking. ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
Another fit harvest! ๐๐ค Mustard spinach, Bok Choi, Swiss chard, commander lettuce, red lettuce, spring onion, carrots, Texan Grano onion, red onion and leeks!
Batswana literally go abroad to be recognized for what they canโt get recognition for in Botswana and then once they succeed Batswana want to claim them.
Never understood why we donโt support our own until we see the rest of the world do.
Botswana is depressing. Trying to help my neighbour apply for a cleaning job. She is currently earning P1200, her one room is P800 a month and sheโs working for people that are making good money. If hell exists so many people are going. This place is rotten.
After my momโs death, I was cleaning up her room and saw her payslips tsa ma P600 and Iโve been bitter since. And no level of personal success will take away that bitterness until I see other Batswana like her get fairer chance at life and not be exploited.
Batswana with small businesses stop saying โcall for more informationโ when advertising your business. Social media is a very fast paced network, we want to know what youโre selling, how much, where.
Donโt make buying a task. Make it instant. Make it easy.
I grouted my own floors, painted the house myself, did the doors, installed the locks, filled cracks and sanded them down, restored old door frames. All that I inherently got from my dad and I love it so much. ๐ค I saved 8k just on painting.
Guys I once dated someone who refused that we go on a picnic because โbatho ba tlaa reng ba bona ree ja ka fa tlase ga setlhareโ ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ Waitse romance mo Botswana e ka go bontsha gore life ke chappies e wetse mo mmung ๐๐คฃ๐๐คฃ๐๐ค
My garden is being featured on a farming magazine and Iโm SOOO excited!!!! ๐๐๐๐๐ Iโve never genuinely been excited like this about an interview! So proud of my little garden! ๐ข๐ค
Iโve always had this delusional idea that being a good person will make people be good to you. Owaii. If anything the nicer you are as a person, the more people take advantage of you.
Itโs the progress for me! โจ๐ฑ In 2 weeks Iโll post some before and afters because my little DIY backyard has come a long way in the past 2 months! Still a long way to go! ๐ค๐
Being disrespectful at a time of death is a level of insensitivity I cannot comprehend. And what is most alarming is how many Batswana engage in that insensitivity and find it entertaining. It is a very scary reflection of our people.