Adiela Akoo

Search this site By Adiela Akoo When it rains, it pours!! These last few days epitomized this, with no less than four family members being rushed to the hospital, two requiring urgent operations! The usually effervescent energy of the family chat group quickly shifted to a somberness that weighed heavily on the chest, often causing laboured breathing! The lighthearted posts were replaced with constant updates from the hospitals, messages of mutual support, and prayers … lots of prayers… Then…...

I rode the train to work today, my first day on the job. Friends offered to kindly show me, a quick way to get to town. “ Nie man! Kom hier!” they said, grabbing me by my wrist. “You can’t go there!” they said, pointing to the sign that read: “Whites Only/ Slegs Blankes”! So they pulled me away from the pristine, first compartment to the broken down “Third Class”! I rode the church to work today, the Pastor dancing up and down the aisle.