intro #2

Here we go with an introduction in English. Why should I try that?

- for that bunch of new non-italian friends who might want to follow the adventure and keep track that I am still alive

- cause English is one of the official languages in Botswana, I do speak English in my everyday life in Germany, and I am kind of feeling sometimes like a person who speaks English, I don't know how to explain, maybe it's just about my multiple personalities

- why not.

Very important: so I am going to write this blog also in English, depending on the mood and how much I feel homesick (which is home?) or better "patriotic" (ahahah, maybe missing food or "La Mamma" or even better the combination of the two), and please, keep in mind that I have a personal free usage of this language, which is independent on the score I got in the TOEFL test. So I do a LOT of grammar mistakes and obscure structure sentences. But it makes me feel free. It's just a little bit embarassing cause I have a lot of italian friends who would write so much better than me (sorry Quiara, never want to disappoint you).

So, Botswana. Why? Because of the Khoisan people that are there, spread in small villages, speaking click languages, almost endangered - going to disappear soon. We want to document their status in terms of Linguistics, Social Anthropology, and Molecular Anthropology. Do they have a peculiar genetic characterization? I really hope so, giving more sense on my PhD project.

Leaving today, coming back 22nd December. 3 weeks with my boss and the guide, one month alone with the guide. I really hope the guide is a very entertaining person. I don't know if I can be so much entertaining to myself. I have books. Reading some novels by Susan Sontag now. No Botswana ethnography. I was thinking that one should travel naive, not ready, and get what he can. And get the feeling once he is there.

I am looking forward to see the sky changing - the constellations. Like in Peru. the Crux, that's the translation i found for the Croce del Sud. I like it so much.