Eyes to See, Ears to Hear

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…