by Kate Motaung | Oct 14, 2014 | 31 Days, 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes, 31 Days of Life in South Africa, South Africa
It was a day or two before our Michigan wedding when my mom woke me up early. “It’s your pastor in Cape Town,” she said, holding out the cordless phone. My heart thumped hard in my chest. Why would he be calling me from South Africa? “Hello?” I answered, terrified of...
by Kate Motaung | Oct 12, 2014 | 31 Days, 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes, 31 Days of Life in South Africa, South Africa
My dad says that rest is good. God thinks so, too. My husband says I’m not very good at it. Just resting. I like to be busy, even if it’s doing something that I find relaxing. I have a hard time just sitting, if you know what I mean. I’ve come to learn that, in...
by Kate Motaung | Oct 11, 2014 | 31 Days, 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes, 31 Days of Life in South Africa, South Africa
Looking for this week’s Five Minute Friday post and the giveaway from Red Letter Words? Click here. This is Day 11 of 31 Days of Life in South Africa — a series in which every post is written in five minutes flat. Thanks for stopping by! ...
by Kate Motaung | Oct 9, 2014 | 31 Days, 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes, 31 Days of Life in South Africa, Five-Minute Friday, South Africa
It’s Five Minute Friday time, and as promised, I have another giveaway for you, my favorite internet crowd! In case you missed it last week, I’ve cooked up some amazing giveaways for every Friday in the month of October, mostly to keep the momentum going...
by Kate Motaung | Oct 9, 2014 | 31 Days, 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes, 31 Days of Life in South Africa, South Africa
Exactly two weeks after my husband and I spoke our vows in my hometown in the U.S., we were back in South Africa doing the same. That time, I didn’t walk down the aisle, but stepped rhythmically to the beat of vocalists harmonizing the Setswana lyrics, “Tshwang,...
by Kate Motaung | Oct 8, 2014 | 31 Days, 31 Days of Five Minute Free Writes, 31 Days of Life in South Africa, South Africa
So my original plan for today was to see how much South African vocab I could introduce in five minutes of writing, but then my seven-year-old boy who happens to steal my heart all over again every single day jumped into the challenge with great enthusiasm and has...