Where is our House?
Saturday, October 20
After yesterday’s journey, sleeping in late this morning was very welcomed. We got up, showered, ate a light breakfast, and headed back to the office to use the internet and sort through the other things to choose what we wanted to take back with us to Riverside.
Dana and Melanie [...]
Archive for October, 2007
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under: Life in Mbeya
Safari kwa Mbeya
A Trip to Mbeya
Friday, October 19
Marcelo (computer guy/friend working in Mbeya) called last night to say that they were coming through this afternoon to pick us up instead of tomorrow morning. Tunku (Swahili teacher/friend) ended class early for us so we could pack. We knocked that out and caught a ride out to the main [...]
under: Life in Mbeya
Today was/is an awesome day!
On Friday afternoon, we caught a ride with some friends who were driving the 12-hour journey from Dar es Salaam to Mbeya, our future home. We stayed with them until today with the main goal of the trip being to look at one housing option. The house is in Ifisi, a town 30 [...]
under: General
Trying a new way to blog… retroactive…
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Jumamosi 13 Oktoba 2007
We slept in again this morning, getting up @ 830a. That was nice. Since we have a small fridge in our banda, we can keep milk here and skip breakfast in the dining room if we like. I had a big ol bowl of Frosties, a [...]
under: Bits of Culture
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Friday, October 5
Ijumaa, 5 Oktoba
under: Tummy Series
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