The experience was overwhelming. With all this sky scrapers surrounding me, I knew I needed to adjust. After all this is not like our neighbourhood at all. Hi my name is Lesedi i was born and raised in Limpopo and in this piece I want to share with you my experience of this world I now live in , the world I now call my second home, a world that still confuses me, a world that changes people from good to bad and from bad to good. When I first came to Joburg i felt an emotion that doesn’t have a name, I had never seen anything like this in my life before. This place looked different, its not the same as Ha-Kutama Muduluni k or Ha-Sinthumule Madombidzha. I tried to compare it with Thohoyandou but it was nothing like Dzanana or Sibasa. As a young girl there were a lot of things that my home provided me with and the biggest one of them was protection from all the transgressions of this world. Here everything happens so fast, from the traffic that goes from Hillbrow to Melville via Braamfontein to tsotsis hijacking innocent people. It is in this world that I learnt that people can sell their body for money; young men can dedicate their lives into professions such as robbery and substance abuse. Every day was a battle I had to win. I figured this is what happens in this world “you win or you get swallowed” I have seen many of my friends who couldn’t swim and therefore drowned. Some had babies that had no fathers, others dropped out of tertiary and unfortunately some were engulf by a disease I never knew existed. This world has everything good, bad, bitter, sweet and deadly. Some failed to adjust from the world we knew to this mystery planet. It’s a battle of the worlds but the weapon is to choose well.
Lesedi
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