In honor of Kent a new good blogging friend and proud parent/grandparent of a tenant family currently at the campsite, I’m posting this 16+ minute video tour of the Riverside Campsite in Iringa, Tanzania. This is where we attended Swahili language school and I filmed this in early November last year. You can even [...]
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Riverside Campsite Tour
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Water or Lipton Iced Tea?
This is video of water from the shower in our banda in Africa. You’ll see me fill up a bucket in a dim-lit bathroom then carry it outside so you can see it better.
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A Near Sausage Attack
A couple of nights ago, I was walking to the other side of the campsite to help a fella out with his computer. Along the road is this tree:
Appropriately named a Sausage Tree because of these:
There are quite a few of these sausages hanging from the tree and they are heavy. My guess is around [...]
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Swahili is tough
I had no idea my brain could function the way it has over the past 3 weeks. So much information for such a small mind as mine!!!
Dana is leveling out morning sickness wise. Not sure if it is because of the vitamin B complex or the surpassing the 1st trimester mark. Either way, she’s now [...]
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Week 1 of Swahili school down, 15 to go!
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.
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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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