Posts Tagged ‘class’
Having house help makes me nervous
There are two wonderful people who make our ridiculous lives here possible: Mathilde, and Saidi. Mathilde is a big, beautiful woman whose smile you have to earn. She is funny, and she has a great laugh, a kind of voiced breath that crescendos in volume and pitch until it breaks into a cackle. Mathilde cooks [...]
Stamp your passport at my gate
Fifty percent of my current household is European. European men, to be exact. (Actually, with the exception of me, everyone who lives here at the moment is a man, and I am beginning to feel like something of the Central African Hostel Madame, if by ‘madame’ you understand ‘woman who cleans up the crumbs, puts [...]
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