Saturday: The grandparents, they visited for inspection. Ah! The hair is exactly like the Father's! The face, the feet and toes! Ah! She has a strong grasp! They beamed. We chatted a lot too. Your Paternal Granddad is a proper Historian like my Mother. Teachers and Theologians! How they love giving their knowledge in words!
As a birth gift, you would get an elementary published book about the Mada language/people, granddad promised, but as a condition, I must learn to tie the wrappers they bought me as a proper Nigerian woman, he added. We agreed I could make them into cloths instead:-) I am hopeless when it comes to tying wrappers.
Sunday: You got two extra names and an unofficial Nickname today. 'She shall be called RHISWEMISHI because 'God has wiped away our tears', Granddad said in Mada.
She is NANKAL for 'God has heard' but I would call her 'Mashi' a lot too. Do you know what it means? I do, I replied and remembered Mashi. It means something pleasant to the eyes, something painfully beautiful, like her, like you:-)
Telling Merit. March 4. 2013.
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