Having not blogged for many day lots of new has come upon. Mom is leaving tomorrow, being Thurs, to head back to Toronto to visit her Dad who is in hospital with a broken hip and complications. We are all going to Tanga tomorrow so she can fly down to Dar and then fly KLM home. Many thanks to Sal and Rose who made this possible my finding the flight and booking it. What would we do with out them!!! She will be gone for what looks to be about 10 days to 2 weeks. In that time we will have gone to Amani Nature Reserve, Sudan vs Tanzania at the big field in Dar and most likely a couple hundred Catan games.
Our weekly Catan game with the medical students is going well. I was very close to winning last week but one of them is a Catan expert and has won both weeks. Now that Rose is home she has clarified many rules from Catan.com. I don’t know if she has started to play online yet at playcatan.com. Haha.
Just finished week of exams at school with Sy and I only having to write the English and otherwise just helping Sister G with odd jobs. Our marble skills have plumted. We have lost something around 50 marbles and counting. It is a good thing it is only 2 cents a marble. Mom went into Tanga last week and bought a used bike like Sal and Rose’s so she can actually have some left over energy after the short ride. She likes her new bike and now we fly all around on them except we are still suck on getting up the hills which is going to take some time!!!!
Hope you like the pics I was finally able to get up on the blog. It took some definite re-sizing to very small pics, but fro m what I can tell they aren’t half bad. If you saw my very short blog I said that I has figured out the computer problems which was just a small problem that was right under my nose. Almost had to call Graham in Ottawa but solved it a good hour before our scheduled calling time. I am very proud of myself.
Really gotten into reading here with all my extra time. Just finished my fifth book so far. The first book I read really challenged my reading and excelled me ahead once completed.
The Swahili, ah yes, the Swahili I didn’t realize how hard a new language is to learn and we all agree that if could do one thing differently in that last year it would be to have learned just some of the basic Swahili before coming here. It is just the pronouctation that has got me stuck but I am slowly pushing my way through the teach yourself Swahili which I was doing in school before this week.
My movie has made it on to the website but has not won yet. I you want to see it go to www.guardian.co.uk/canonfreecording and it is under the more movies section. Don’t let the little blurp about it fool you. The only reason it says Graham was because I am not 18 and I am not a resident of England. Since he is older then 18 and used to live in England he put his name in the entry form. It is also on youtube under Guardian Movie Entry. Hope you can find it.
We are getting a new fridge which is big news around here but my not be as big back home. The only reason I am saying this is because of me self urge to fill up and entire page of a word doucument so you proble don’t need to liten to the next new but I guess I am out of something to tell you so I will just sit here and keep you reading till I sign out and say goodbye. G
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Hey Grif
Can't wait to check out your film!
And personally, I think a new fridge is a huge deal! Here in my office the power was out for 2 weeks and nobody thought to empty the fridge...let me tell you the stink coming from it will never go away!
I have played catan on line twice and was beaten with only 6 points both times. It took 2 games to figure out the chat and trading features so I hope to do better next time. I miss bantering with you during the game though. This was a great blog Griff, very well written. How's the History of the World progressing - still war after war? Love you. Rose
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