Fun times!

 

We’ve been at language school for one week and we were so ready for the weekend. So far we have learned greetings, some verbs, nouns, tenses, numbers, months and days of the week.

It seems it is always windy here and today it seems to be exceptionally windy. It is very dry right now and the next rainy season doesn’t start till the end of October. The sky is very blue and the stars are so bright. We can see the Milky Way and it is so clear and easy to see. The dirt is very sandy and below the sand it is red clay. The people of TZ are so friendly and helpful.

This morning we walked to some gullies. They are at the base of a mountain and collects the run off during the rainy seasons. We had fun climbing around them and found some quartz rocks. Luke even found an arrowhead.

Our cabin has a very nice porch, one large room which has our bed and a single bed. The small back room, which has no door, has a set of bunkbeds. Off this room is our bathroom. It is bigger than the guest house in Dar but is still small for 4 people. Our week days are busy so we aren’t around the cabin much.

Things we need to remember when taking a shower is turn the water heater on 45-60 minutes before showering. Don’t get any water in your mouth. The water comes from the river by our cabin. We get all wet, turn the water off and then suds up. Turn the water back on and rinse off. The next person should wait ½ an hour before showering. If we don’t do it this way we will run out of hot water, just part of life for us right now in Africa.