Tons of Stuff

Wow long time no post. Tons of stuff has happened in the past weeks I need to tell. School is back in full swing with me in Std 7 and Sys staying in Std 5. There have been no wazungu teachers yet which is different from last year when there were so many. Sister G is busy but doing fine. She has squeezed her office into the staff room while Std 7 resides in her old office until the new buildings are done. From what I hear the builders are more picky and not as willing as before. Sister is no tot happy about that.
Joel and Paula’s visit was nice but short and we finished if off with 4 days at Peponi on the Indian Ocean. Tons of Fun! After they left Stephanie and Fiona Manning cam and we spent another 4 days on the beach. Oohh yahh. Very hot here which is unlike what I am hearing of Canada. Obama is the president and my dad miss calculated the hours so we missed the speech!! History History Lots of Politics. Feel out of the loop here
Especially with NHL no scores and no time to check. Haha
g

back from dar and off to amani

A weekend in Dar for meetings, shopping, a wedding and just plain wandering. We arrive in Dar after what seems to be a longer then usual bus which sucks when it already fells long enough. We are with Alex and Emily this time so we take up two cabs instead of one which can really be a hassle. We take everyone out for lunch at what was our faviorite restaurant when Sy, Dad and I were late November. Some of the waiters still reconied us as regulars. They all seem to enjty yhe meal. I think the worst part of that day was the realization that our rooms A/C was not working and not going to ever work in the period of time we were in this room. That night the heat was unbearable. We had a fan which you could say keep the hot air moving because all it did was move the already hot air just enough for the room to be toerale to sleep. Thankfully I could feel no mosquitoes in the room but Dad did say he got bit by something. That night Alex and Emaily were off to the “sending off” party for this wedding that they then attended on Sat Afternoon. From what I can tell it was a experience for sure and the food was great! They described one moment when during the party the waiters just kept bringing you the same soda you ardered at the beginning so they ended up drinking 6 bitter lemons between them. Heaven!!!! On Friday which was my parents first day of meetings we hung out with A and E for the morning and to endeavour our painfully hot room just a few times during the day. Emily had her first experience with the overwhelming Katanga shops which are very near our hotel. Mom then had the same oerwelming experience sthe next day when she went in to the ow of shops saying she was going to buy 3-4 and then left what I would say was 8. I found and ordered a Tanzanian Keeper Juersey from the nathinal team provider which we came across with some very variable directions that lead us to many different soccer shops all over town. On our last night in the Jambo Inn we moved to a different room which was the same room we stayed in on our last visit and has a ice cold frezzer box A/C which made us feel cold and put on more clothing during the night. Then we were back on the bus the next morning and on the treacherous 5 hour bus ride but at least were back in Muheza.
School starts tomorrow! I bet by the time I ge this on the blog we will have completed our first first day at HFPS. Joel and Paula arrive tomorrow and I bet they are in Dar right now or will land soon. Can’t wait to see them. Sadly Catan 5-6 player seafarers etension was not in the packing list. She gave it her best shot. Even with some help from Graham. No luck. We will survive! Wish me luck at school. Email a big hassle lately so don’t worry if you haven’t been replyed to yet. Theare trying. Internet had to come by lately and same with water. Regional shortage. Teule only place with water and even we sometimes don’t have any. I have been carrying buckets out the the outskirts for those with out water. Sefu, Julliette and so on. Lots of fun. Talks soon.
G

rats = musty

Thankfully the musty smell of a dead or decomposing rat is now gone. While Dada and I were in Tanga Simon and Leah had an epic day where first they found the rat in the back of the oven disintegrating in the control box (which would answer the question of the shorting out every time the oven was turned on). Mom and Juliette were put to the task of cleaning this, which she says she was almost throwing up during the entire event. Just to make matters worse the water was coming out of the faucets a little dirtier then usual and when Juliette went and checked the tank there where worms on the surface and when then tank was then drained from the bottom black liquid came out and from what I here this was a thick black substance of silt that had built up on the bottom. My mom all a little creeped out by this felt sick for the rest of the day and the next day. All of this happened while dad and I were out.
We already start school next week. When taking out the major things we are doing like Pangani, Peponi, Safari in mid Febuary, a visit by Joel and Paula plus maybe another trip to Amani so Mom can see the chameleons. It will be nice to get back. I haven’t seen Sister G in a few weeks so that will be nice. Get back into playing marbles and all.
Yesterday and the day before we had a new king of power problem. This was surges and then very low and then up so high it looks like the fan will come off its wheel and then so low that when the fan was on high it was doing maybe 10-20 rotations a minute. This was happening all over Teule hospitali so Ben was rushing around trying to get someone on the job.
There is no water in Muheza for three monthe (we think). The constant rush of people getting water from our outside tap has steddly grew and the sound of buckets filling is now waking us up and keeping us from sleeping. Right now in Muheza almost every 2nd or so bike will be piled high with between 40-60 litres of water. Lately I have also been riding up water on the bac of my bike to Juliette’s house and Sefu’s Mother’s house. We (Kevy, Sefu and I) will usually bring 60 litres between the two houses which are very near each other to be split evenly. It is a very fun thing to do as you get to ride out in to the outskirts of Muheza to deliver this highly cherished substance. HAHA
We are going to Dar on Thursday with Alex and Emily. My parents have to do some mre Morphine meetings to try and get the medication to Bombo hospitali which is in Tanga. We will end up going with them to all these places if you were wondering!
That’s all for now. We are having a little bit of computer email problames but that should be resolved soon. Sorry if your email has been lost in all the transferrering. We should be back into a good system soon. See yah Later.
G