This is Safia.
She is a posh Parisian kween who got a job straight outta uni working in Emergency Department. At the end of a shift one day, she got chatting to a colleague and mid shoe-tie, decided she was going to move to New Zealand.
Why New Zealand?
My parents met in a village in Mali, moved to Paris to have a better life and haven’t travelled at all – not even to visit Italy for one day! So, before I start my house/ marriage / kids life, I wanted to travel the world. New Zealand was the furthest away and a mystery. When I got there it felt like a dream with all the landscapes and sky. Also I fell in love.
Love storyyyyyy GO:
He was from Uruguay and I knew he was special because I just wanted to talk to him to much, and share what we knew. We were so different from each other but we made a melting pot of past memories and then made our own together. He was so romantic. After two years we were going to travel the world, but then he cheated.
How did you find out?
He was always on the phone and I saw him writing to another girl. I read his messages they were in Spanish, but trust me when you want to find out something, you can speak any language. So we broke up and I flew to Bali.
Best things you’ve done in Bali?
– scuba diving a shipwreck
– dancing everywhere from bars to beach parties
– renting a bike and driving two hours for the first day (that was crazy). I discovered I had good balance.
– finding my independence
What’s the most interesting thing you’ve noticed travelling?
I noticed that white people don’t offer much help or try to share things. It seems so selfish, we are all living together you’re happy if someone helps you, and it’s easy to be helpful. I love the way that in African culture, we share everything and always we help each other. Also, you’re never alone – community is strong. Even if you want a quiet day it will never happen, someone will always come over and say hey let’s talk or eat or walk. Random street kids just show up to your house and ask for left over food – no one ever throws food away so they can help them.
Hold up I thought in Mali that everyone was starving and dying of thirst and being adopted by Madonna?
Mali is better than what you see in documentaries. It used to be like that before but not now we have water on tap. And we have food like rice, and really heavy foods- thick sauces with peanuts: you never eat anything without meat (which is hard as I’m a vegetarian).
Back to nursing, what is something that happens in surgery?
Everyone makes jokes when the patient is unconscious. And sometimes takes photos of the weird stuff like the time a man came in with a pineapple up his bum. SPikey end first. I don’t know how he did it.
Ouch.
Another was worse – one time a man came In with his penis hanging by the skin. His wife found out he was cheating, so she cut it off while he was sleeping. We fixed it. Here let me show you the picture.
Holy mother of god. It’s yellow inside? Safia gross never show anyone that again.
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