Archive for December, 2007

Rat ni nini?

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

What is a rat?
For my final Swahili project, I decided to put together a game of Jeopardy. One of the categories in the first round was Msamiati wa Kiingereza. (English Vocabulary) This meant all of their question responses had to include the word in English… not Swahili.
So, this category was chosen and I [...]

She likes to look at your elephant

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Okay, it finally happened to me.
We were walking back to our banda after chai (tea) break today and Dana noticed her shadow. The sun was directly behind us so you couldn’t tell by the shape of the shadow that she’s pregnant. So, she stopped and turned to the side for a few seconds [...]

Pop Secret

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

One day this past weekend, I heard the village kids playing in the river. There were a bunch of them so I decided to give them some popcorn someone sent to us from the states. (Thanks again, by the way!) So, I walked over to the riverbank and yelled, “Watoto chizi!” (Crazy kids) [...]