Chapter 9

The nuns-- at first I was picturing like those nuns in the movies (Sound of Music, Sister Act etc) wearing the black dress thing with the hat and such but I mean I don't think that they would be disappointed if people from a prestigious school came to look at my class and they just looked off from what I would expect but i understand what Tambu means by that.
But then after taking that test-- the questions seemed weird to me-- she was in her interview and she kept rambling about her amazing life at the mission because Babamukuru was in that life of hers and then she got confused because the nuns wanted to know about her real life at the homestead, and she should have understood why-- because its better to talk about what you've had your whole life than something you've just got that just makes you look fancy and it's not really what you should like most. 
She's really smart to have gotten into that school, but all she thinks about is how everything will be better there from food to furniture and it seems like she has really forgotten about all that has happened for her to get here and how she was before when she kept telling herself that she was going to stay the same and not change at the mission and now she's about to change yet again.
Then everyone is talking about her future and all that good stuff and Tambu made a good observation that "[marriage] was irritating in the way it always cropped up in one form or another, stretching its tentacles back to bind me before I had even begun to think about it seriously, threatening to disrupt my life before I could even call it my own" (183), and she finally, for however briefly, realized that everyone was always going to make her future for her and she was never really going to make her own as it was as of that time.  Her mother is interesting because to everyone else she's all like "don't take Tambu away! My baby! It'll kill me!!" and then when talking to Tambu: "you're going to become white and I wont be able to talk to you-- you're just being used for someone else's advantages." and so on and so forth and it's confusing as to how she really feels about her daughter.
Then there's Nyasha-- why is she becoming bulimic??