"Ruwa" and Shona in general

Let's answer the first obvious question: Why Ruwa? Well, the answer is very simple: It means flower(everybody who knows me, can figure out the rest) in Shona, the main language in Harare, the main capital of Zimbabwe.

Besides the omnipresent English, which actually is at least in Dzivara Sekwa the language in school even in Grade One, there are two main languages in this country: Shona and Ndebele. While Shona is more a Bantu Language, which resembles dialects in Mozambique, Ndebele derives from Zulu, which now probably does sound familiar. Don't worry if you didn't get it immediately, I also needed to be reminded that this is the main ethnicity in South Africa.

Apparently Shona and Ndebele aren't very similar, as one Dzikwa student from here, Clive Jonga, is now studying acting in Bulayawo(the other big city in Zimbabwe) and first he actually had to take a language course in Ndebele so that he could follow his lessons! But he is now in his third year and has adapted very well, yet I believe the reason for that are more his own ambitions and the work ethic Seppo and Oili teach at Dzikwa.

However, since I do live in a Shona region and don't see the point in failing in two languages, I only know a few vocabs in Shona, such as "Mamuka sei?", "Maswera sei?", "Ndirisei?" and "Makadi?", not to forget "Muri rayiti?" and "Uri rayiti?" which pretty much all mean "How are you?" and that's probably just the tip of the iceberg! Otherwise the one word that makes really everybody laugh, is the word "Sekerera" (=Smile) - very useful if you have to take photos of kids =D

So a life full of "sekerera" to you all and "Tonana".