Another sunny day
Today, like every day, is a perfect sunny day. Right now, it’s the dry season. It has rained a few times, but it never sprinkles. It only comes down in end-of-the-world style torrential downpours that last five minutes. Afterwards, it doesn’t look as if it rained a drop.
Last night we had a ‘big night out’, which involved going to the Snake Park for cheeseburgers and to fill our water buckets (still no running water). The Snake Park is pretty much everything combined into one- snake, bird, and crocodile exhibits, a restaurant, a bar, a museum, camel riding, a gym, free health clinic, camping ground, Maasai craft stores, a free education center, you name it. On Tuesday, a lot of us are going there to watch the inauguration.
An average day here for me is like this: Wake up at the last possible minute and go to chapel at 7:10. Attempt to sing in Kiswahili with the girls. At 7:25, go back to the house and eat breakfast. For the next 3 hours, wash laundry/wash dishes/go to the store/be lazy/sit in on classes. Then at 10:50 it’s chai time: all the teachers gather in the break room to eat chapati (flat bread) and drink chai tea so sweet you feel like you need to brush your teeth three times. Then it’s library time, where we’re still sorting books and tidying up and making plans for things. At 2:30 it’s lunch with the teachers, ugali (corn/flower) and beans. Afterwards, either more library time or a trip to the store, and sometimes an attempt to use the internet. Around 5 is when we retire back to the house and entertain ourselves; I’m trying to learn Kiswahili. Soon, I’ll be tutoring girls in the evenings, most likely in math.
Tags: Tanzania, Travel
afretheim
February 3rd, 2009 at 3:14 am
Sounds like you’re living the dream! 🙂