A challenge? You bet but it is worth it. We can communicate on a basic level now which takes away SO much frustration.
This is Dana enjoying (what’s up with that?) her Swahili homework.
Archive for August, 2007
Week 1 of Swahili school down, 15 to go!
under: Africa Training
Care Packages
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Pictures from Orientation
As fast as they can go, there are quite a few pictures uploading from our week and a half of orientation. I have limited time (and data transfer) in the internet cafe here in Iringa. Kind of a last minute trip to town that I jumped in on.
But, there are a lot of great shots [...]
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It is kinda surreal
I was lying in bed last night watching The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and noticed at one point how I again ’slipped’ out of Africa. When I realized what I was doing and in fact that I was really falling asleep at a Swahili language school somewhere deep in Africa, [...]
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Having a good time
Things are hard as we are now living in one of the tent bandas. It is basically one of those army tents under a thatch shelter. Cool thing about it is (versus the tents of others) that we only have one small hole at the bottom of the entrance through which mice and [...]
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Limited Internet
We’re off to orientation and will have limited internet access (if at all) for the next few months. We’ll do the best we can at posting info. In the meanwhile, pray for us to be able to soak up all we’re taught in orientation and language school.
THANKS!
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We are in Africa!
We made it safely to Tanzania. I didn’t get any sleep on this flight either. Not sure whether it was adrenaline or just plain can’t sleep on planes. 9 hours 40 mins we were on that sucker. Time for some sleep.
We’ve got internet here at least for a few days. [...]
under: Travel
Au Revoir Aix en Provence et mes amis
The bus comes at 8:15am in the morning to take us to the train station. From there, it is to Paris to switch trains to eventually end up back in London where we’ll spend two nights. I’ve had such a great time… in France, yeah… but the last 3 days with the Morees are what [...]
under: Travel
Bring your keys and towels
There have been many… um, mishaps let’s say, that have happened on our journey to Africa thus far. This is one of them from our last night in Paris.
After a day of walking to the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triumph, rue Champs Elysees, and everywhere else, the rechargeable batteries in my handheld GPS [...]
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