I remember our school days where we wore light brown shoe polish as make-up.
I remember those days where we used to walk a million miles just to get bread.
I remember those days when I was wearing a size 28 skirt at school, showing my little fresh legs I used to have.
I remember back in the days where there were 12 of us in a one-roomed house that had only one pot which my mother used to cook rice, curries, and do washing in.
I remember when I was young and used to put a stone under my tongue, believing that when I did wrong it would make my parents forget.
I remember on Christmas, the elderly told us that Santa was coming, and we would dress well the morning in the hopes that he was coming with gifts.
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This sure reminds me of my childhood, more especially the stone....lol , I used to do that a lot though I knew it wasn't working but I did it anyway. During Christmas we would wake up as early as possible to watch the dance and we indeed believed that the sun was really dancing. And as for light brown polish it was the in thing, but one of my friends told me that she once used sunlight green bar soap as a substitute for light brown but unfortunately that day it rained cats and dogs and her substitute showed her flames. Lol
Kwaaaaaa! I remember this very well like it was a trend to almost all high school girls in Soweto I couldn't understand the doing behind it all I thought was they being crazy I never tried it cause I believed my Vaseline on my face did wonders reason why even today my skin looks perfectly flawless and natural, shoe polish yah neh those days were rough lol #highmemories this is clear proof that women and young girls are always under pressure to look beautiful yet beauty comes from within a gentle and kind spirit!