We are two electrical engineering students doing our Master's Thesis as a Minor Field Study on small-scale hydro systems in rural Mozambique. This blog is about the adventures we encounter during our ten weeks abroad, but also about the preparation, all good advice we've got and what might just have been time spent sleepless worring about completely unnecessary things.

Sunday, 26 February 2012

Fake husbands

One of all our prejudices of what will happen when we arrive in Mozambique is that men will be very straight forward and confront us and ask us to marry them. Or at least be their girlfriends. This is of course not necessarily true, and I will try to remember to tell you what it's like when we get there. Either way, someone told us that, to avoid unnecessarily awkward moments and the need to explain ourselves every second time someone confronts us, we could wear a ring to look "less single". Good plan.

Only problem is that Kajsa really hates to lie. So, she said she would feel better if she had more info to back her up. And, why not? We simply let our imagination free to make the perfect fake husband. Kajsa picked a good friend of hers, (whom we happened to meet in Uppsala and happens to work as a police). And yes, she asked his wife for permission. All is good. Me, I think I will make a man up. Would be better to be able to switch once in a while. He can be a business man who makes big money on the stock market one week

and a kind farmer who has cattle the next.
Straight from Farmer wants a wife - Swedish version

Or that French man who owns three chateaus that I never found last semester. Anything is possible. Who is your favourite husband? Feel free to come up with suggestions.

Apart from these (very important) issues, we've been working on our field trip methodology, and be safe, we are going to accomplish something down there. Not sure what yet, but we're getting there.

2 comments:

  1. Hey Sara! Popped in to see how your project is going, ended up giggling to myself like a looney in the cafe where I'm seated right now. Totally vote for Swedish farmer man holding heavy hammer.
    Hope your project is going well, and that you're enjoying your time in Mozambique to the fullest. I'm back in Lund since about 4 weeks now, time has flown by so fast, and I've barely had any time to breath between thesis writing, moving into a new house (the most beautiful one in Lund, I couldn't be happier), visits and retrouvailles of old friends!
    Take good care, and once again, enjoy this African adventure!
    Bisous
    Petra

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  2. Haha, Im happy to hear that you enjoy my writing :D

    I couldn't agree more on the fact that time has disappeared in some mysterious way, Ive also moved (into an apartment but still) and thesis writing is exhausting! Ive told Ylva I will come and see her in Lund when Im back. Ill surely tell you too and we can have a drink or so :) Let me know if you come by Göteborg and good luck with your writing! Biz

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