Hey - Kim - will look forward to the holiday open house!!
Back in Moshi after the Zanzibar trip. BTW - Air Tanzania which I used to go to Zanz....Hamis (my driver) told me it stands for Any Time Cancel (not sure where the C comes in ...)
I was supposed to leave on an 8am flt; arived at 6am for shuttle to airport; no show; flight canceled; almost canned the trip....and on the way back, the flt was at least 1 1/2 hrs late...and the airport in Zanz was pretty strange/ Get this: after the Muslim women took my backpack thorugh he security they asked for a tip!!! and in the restroom, one of them followed me around turning on the faucet for me etc...and of course expected a tip.....
OK - this part is supposed to be about Moshi - I really like this town - have been here long enough so I know my way around, I can converse a bit in Swahili, I recognize people - and they recognize me...anybody with light skin and hair sort of stands out here...
staying at backpacker hotel - 7 bucks a night , breakfast incl.....and the staff are actually pretty competent and helpful. I also like the second floor restaurant that opens out ot the street so I can look at all of the activity while I'm having breakfast: men running downhill after huge carts loaded with produce or grain, women in their so colorful clothing carrying stuff on their heads; but of course this is a pretty big town - along with these sights are cars, daladalas (local buses with people packed in and hanging off the sides), bicycles - a lot of people use bikes here - , animals, people selling fruits on the sidewalk - and the everpresent seamstresses with their sewing machines set up onthe streets
time running out onthis session; will post the rest later I guess - but I will be home soon anyway..
so maybe I shoudl just mentione that i spend the last 2 days back at my school - finishing up a project that I started with t he kids cpl wks ago...they are doing their exams now, so not so much teaching going on...but the projects came out great! will show you the photos...
I took my preform 1 students for a walk - or maybe they tooke me for a walk - they wanted to show me the river - it was beautiful - in the really lush forest...we had fun running/walking, talking in Eng/Swahili.... I'm telling you - it doesn't take much to thrill these kids
it was hard to say good bye to everybody - and everyone at school and in TZ in general aways says karibu tena- welcome again - come back - when are you coming back...and the thing is they are really sincere - as I said before - some of the sweetest people you will ever meet.
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