Tunakunywaje maji?
How do we drink water?
Good question. We wondered this quite a bit before coming over here. We brought our own 5-gallon bucket-style filter as well. The answer to the question is chupa nyingi za maji (many bottles of water). Since we have a small fridge in our banda and room to keep a lot, we usually by the bottles by the box-load. There are six 1.5-liter bottles in a box and I like to buy at least 3 boxes at a time. The price for a box has recently increased to Tsh 2,200/= which is just under $2.00 USD.
We use the filter for brushing our teeth, cooking, etc.
By the way, the word for bottle (chupa) is really easy to be confused with the word for underwear (chupi). Yes, I have made that mistake here… at the table… during lunch… with lots of Tanzanian laughs all around…
