My Malawian Name

Since arriving in Malawi I have been hearing rumours that my name in Chitumbuka, ‘Tala’, means ‘road’ or ‘path’.

This obviously made me immensely happy!!

I enquired about this at my last lesson, and it actually does mean road, but more specifically, the new tarmac road to town!

So, not only does it mean ‘road’ (albeit a less whimsical type of road than I might wish…), but ironically it means ‘Tarmac!’

Hahahahaha

(get it? Tarrah Macdonald?…. Hahahaha! Terrible… I know… but it did make me giggle!)