The main language spoken here is Portuguese. Mozambique was a Portuguese colony for four centuries and didn't gain its independence from Portugal until 1975. Although Portuguese is the official language there are many regional languages spoken here too! In my area, many people still speak Guitonga, which is one of the languages spoken by a section of the Bantu tribe that still exists in many parts of southern Africa. I speak some Portuguese but I would really like to learn some Guitonga while I am here too!
The money in Mozambique is called Meticais (pronounced met-ic-als). I think the Mozambican money is very beautiful because the bills have animals on them, too! My favorite is the 200 Meticais bill because of the lions on it. One US dollar is worth 63 meticais, so I always have to do quick math when I go shopping to figure out how much I am spending!
A bottle of water is about 50 meticais here in Tofo. That is 78 cents in America. It is not recommended to drink the tap water right out of the faucet in my town because the water comes out of the tap with a lot of sediment (like sand) in it. I have a special water filter that takes out anything unsafe and leaves me with clean water to drink every day.
