I said: “God show me how good it can get”,
He said: “Hold my cup, let me show you what overflow looks like”
This is the beginning of a new professional chapter.
Im joining the Office of Special Adviser on Africa in the UN secretariat, New York.
God has validated my dreams❤️
My advise to any young woman in her 20s… focus on building your career, men will come a dime a dozen in your lifetime. It’s really sad to see women’s careers digress, stay stagnant etc all because they chose men over their careers. If you ever have to choose, choose your career.
Wasting food should be made illegal. This is the call from SA Harvest. It says supermarkets and restaurants should be forced to donate unsold, but edible food. Over 20 million people go to bed hungry every night, while 10 million tonnes of food is thrown away. SA Harvest says
My amazing husband, I promise to show up as the best version of myself for us as a union, for our family and for you.
Thank you for keeping each and every promise you made to me.
To infinity baby ♾️
I believe in apologizing. So many misunderstandings can be resolved by a simple and sincere apology. Ha o ntebisa gore ga ke a go tsaya sentle, I will immediately apologize because I don’t attach my ego to apologies, the relationship matters more to me.
Can we skip all these official ceremonies and proceed to spending our lives together & start the new chapter in our love story called “Marriage?”
To infinity ♾️
Im curious. What makes people believe having a stable 9-5, a paid up mortgage, source of income for school fees, holidays in between is “scared to dream” “unambitious” or “settling”?
Im married to the absolute love of my life, very kind, very loving and law abiding Lawyer who makes an honest living. In fact our anniversary is next week. Why do you ask?
The life I want requires me to be very intentional about my moves, how I spend my energy and where it goes. I can’t afford to have energy leakages or distractions. At ALL.
Being dark skinned. I was teased throughout my childhood and teens for this. My sister was light skinned and we hated how people always compared us. People would never just compliment me, it was always “you’re so pretty for a dark skinned girl”.
And now?? Obsessed 🤩🥺❤️
Yes its a culture shock for us to see a 1 month baby out and about, but its not our baby, so we can just make silent comments in our heads and then proceed to do the tasks that our own lives require. Our own lives need us present in them 😂
Happy Mother’s day to my first home.
I am because of you. I’m
incredibly blessed to have you as a mother. Thank you for all your labor of love throughout my life.
🌻❤️
Social media is so wild because youll see a 25year old wanting the life of a 45 year old who has more years of work under their belt. Of course those people live a softer life, they been working some 25years. Ska la iphella pelo tlhe bathong. 😂😂😂
Id never known what it feels like to be seen as the best thing in the world, for my mind to be appreciated, for my ambitions to be supported without condition, for my feelings to be validated and for someone to always say “we’ll figure it out together” until I met my husband.
I wish people understood the true value of someone giving you access to their professional networks which they took years to build. It’s an honor for someone to do that for you, and people take it for granted, or worse disappoint you or try and overthrow you from that connection.
So something very unique about the long distance trains in China - you can order food from restaurants in the stations along the way and they'll deliver it to the platform, when the train stops the attendants will take it and bring it to your seat.
I was told that we use plural “le tsogile” because we acknowledge that a person does not walk alone, and they walk with a tribe of ancestors. So we acknowledge their presence too.
I absolutely adore the Setswana practice of speaking to an individual as a plural; “a le tsogile”, “a le teng”, “a le gorogile sentle”
For me, you’re giving the utmost respect when you do that ❤️
It is with a heavy heart that I conclude my mission with the UN in Syria after four and half years. I came here wanting to make a difference,but I leave here with Syria having deeply changed me instead. Shukran Jazeelan, Syria. We will meet again InshaAllah🙏🏿
#grateful
Everything works in this country. First day moving in, Id forgotten the electricity had to be registered under my name, I frantically did it online and had power within 10 mins. I had wifi in 24hrs. Transport system works. Koore everything works.
These pics are 10yrs apart. I took the top pic in UN Botswana in April 2014 as a manifestation of where I want be. I said to myself “I will walk into this building & not just as a visitor”. The Bottom pic is UN headquarters NY taken April 2024.
God came through for a girl 🙏🏿
I find that young Batswana are overly-mentored and under-resourced & under-funded.
When we finally address the issue of financing, only then will we make the international waves we aspire for.
People arguing with me as if everyday we dont see young women in their early 20s choosing to shack up with their men, not submitting applications, not going to school, ha gotwe “here’s a job in Tsabong” they decline … and and and is wild to me because where do you guys live? 😮💨
Most of the poverty in BW is engineered by design. There’s absolutely no reason why anyone should be poor in a country as small as BW, having the GDP we do. When will we admit that our poverty is purely because of illicit financial flows and nothing else?
Friends, let me put you on. I realize a lot of young (African) people don’t know this info. There is a global platform that registers (services & products) vendors that can do business with UN entities.
Register, get vetted & do business. Goodluck✨✨✨
I absolutely loved seeing the joy in baby’s face when I surprised him with the Friends Experience for his birthday. He’s a Friends Superfan so it brought back childhood memories 🥺🥰❤️
Part 1 of our birthday Olympics 😂😂😂
I don’t believe people jumped on ecoplexus out of desperation only. Most of those people its just greed and the love of quick money without having to work for it. Eg in the first instance it you can qualify for a 300K loan & you use it to gamble, you’re not desperate but greedy.
We wanted a classic mono-chrome look and clean lines. The decor was absolutely perfect 🤩 👌🏿
Thank you Ultimate Events (+267 75 926 939) for working so hard to bring our vision to life.🥹🥺
Thank you .
@slinchwe
for the beautiful 3 tier & 3 flavours cake 🥺🥰
-noisy places / clubs
-leaving my house after 6pm
-people who don’t respect time
-junk food
-mean girls
-people who are entitled / self centered
-a life that doesn’t have structure, stability & security
-politics (the lies the lies the lies)
-generally ga ke batle go tlwaelwa
I understand you. Im also aware of the deep connection that Africans have to land, the sense of belonging it brings. Ownership for us isnt just for its own sake,it gives a sense of security & where we commune. Given our painful history with land its probably deeply psychological.
Sometimes I dont get the obsession with home ownership (owning a house). Some pple be living high quality life as renters while some languish in their own homes. I'm not dismissing ownership I'm just saying it's not a prerequisite to financial security or better living standards.
In some “friendships”, It’s only in hindsight, after the friendship ends that you see all the hints they used to drop that they in fact didn’t like you much. That realization will have you all the way effed up.
Recruiters be like “we just want an informal chat” next thing you’re deep within a proper interview . Prepare because no such thing as an “informal chat” 😂😂😂😂
Isn’t it amazing how when a relationship or friendship ends you stop seeing them altogether? Like you stop bumping into them or randomly seeing them? they fall off your orbit altogether.
It feels like the universe affirming even more that they were for “a season & a moment”
The classism in Gabz is so silly because one thing life does is come at all of us because balance sana.
Wdym I can’t sit wit yall mme o kopa madi a motlakase? 😭
One of my biggest blessings in 2023 is definitely my baby. There’s absolutely noone else Id rather have spent the year with. So blessed to love you, build a life with you,to be held so delicately by you, to feel my shoulders relax and to breathe easy. To many more years of growth
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. ~ Jeremiah 29:11 🌻✨
Grateful for the gift of life. I have seen the goodness of the Lord, and I am confident that his goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life 🙏🏿❤️
I decided years ago that I refuse to live with the burden of shame in my life.
Especially the stuff that we are supposed to be ashamed of as told by society. Ive been free since coz I live my life on my own terms. Every single part of my story, I own.
My chat. Tloga gotwe o setse dikgang tsa batho morago o monitoring spirit. Nna ha o sa mpolelle sepe, ga ke itse le haele sepe. Some milestones are too big to say you forgot or whatever. 😂😂
The greater % of our grandparents & parents in BW wouldnt have their daily needs met if it werent for financial help from their children. And yet, Botswana's youth unemployment rate currently stands at over 44%. The increasing deterioration of Std of living is very concerning.
Lesego Chombo’s dresses are EATING!! She really learnt a lesson from others not to trust that Miss Botswana team and be self-reliant. This is whats making her standout even more.
#LesegoLaBatswana
Man.. that’s my bestie fr fr. Mosadi yo o wa a tsoga le nna. I see her as human before she is my mother, she respects my life choices without judgement, she guides me with love. It wasn’t always this way, but growth & acceptance on both sides gave us a beautiful relationship.
We have so many people to thank and show gratitude to…I’ve been so emotional all day because it’s really so humbling for people to show up in the various ways they did. Our tribe really showed up, even before the wedding.
Just another affirmation that Modimo wa re rata 🥺❤️
Some people would never apologize even if it kills them, they’d rather continue digging themselves deeper into an issue to save face. A simple “I apologize, I initially misunderstood what you meant” could’ve easily deaded that interaction.