Tambu's Expectations

Tambu goes through a lot of change in chapter 7, not in one way, but many ways. She has realized how different her life is on the homestead than the mission, how much her family depended on her throughout the years that she was there, and also saw and found out many more things than she knew before.

When thinking about it, it's very logical the way that Tambu is acting; since she is in a new environment, she is going to be acting differently. She realizes little things like talking in her shona language to her mother, or even that she needs to act more intelligent at the mission than when she did at home, or she may even dress differently. The first thing that I thought about after thinking about how much Tambu had changed, and when she changed, was eating at a fancy restaurant. I thought how first obvious thing was you wear fancier clothes, and may act more sophisticated (appropriate language, table manners, etc). I know that when I was younger, if I had ever gone to a fancy restaurant, that I would always act differently than I may have done around my family every night. I would be more courteous of manners, or even make sure that I always talked loud and clear so that the waiter/waitress could hear me. 

The ways that Tambu are acting in the book, some are obvious and are non-thinkable, but others that she has to think about, like the hierarchy of the family (who washes hands first, etc). She knows that she has to know what to do, and always act right when doing so.