Tanzania is officially awesome. I fell in love right away. We had a history lesson this morning and then we all crammed into a tiny bus and had lunch and a Kiswahili lesson at Lake Duluti. The weather right now is pretty chilly, I'd guess 50s to 60s. We then went into Arusha to change money and go to a few markets. The people are very persistent to get us to look at their things, and even if they're not trying to sell us stuff, people stare. I don't blame them because we're a big group of white people, and people always stare at foreigners anyway. It's so great because you can basically make someone's day by trying to talk to them in Kiswahili, and they will try to have a conversation with you in English if they can. The other girl from Olaf and I had one guy walking with us the whole time we were at one of the markets. He was just so happy to be helping us, making sure to point things out, and telling us what some of the different fruits were.
I'm hoping that I'll be able to learn a lot of Kiswahili because the grammar is pretty easy, it's just hard to remember what the words mean. That probably doesn't make any sense. I mean the forms are really straight forward, and the spelling is all phonetic, so I just have to remember the vocabulary.
I'm not even really feeling jet-lagged. It's kind of hard to adjust to eating my biggest meal of the day at lunch instead of dinner, but yes, I DO eat it all, Mom. I bought a kanga today which is fabric that I'll have made into a skirt and blouse with a Kiswahili proverb on it. It says something about praising God, I don't really know. But, I'm gonna go eat now, so I hope everyone is enjoying the summer :-)
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