Im half way through my beginners class and only have six more lessons left. Its growing in difficulty everyday with new rules and many new words. We learn about 30 new words a day which I have to try and memorize. I have become quite good at reading Swahili but listening is still the most challenging I might be able to pick up 1 word out of every 5 and then I have to analyze to see which tense ect they are using so as you can guess it takes me a long time to reply and by that time they have probably already said something else.
Swahili in my opinion is quite illogical for instance a day starts at 6:am when the sun rises. This means for example on you clock it could be 8am but if someone ask's you the time you would say 2am in other words anytime you want to tell the time you have to minus 6 hours from your clock unless you have a Swahili clock with the 6 at the top.
Also in Swahili the week starts on a Saturday which is obviously very illogical for me.
On Thursday I saw a movie at the local cinema her in Dar es Salaam, apparently they only have 2 cinemas in the country, the one I went to was at this small shopping center. They even had Shoprite there, which when I went into reminded me very much of South Africa.
The last few days after class I have been going to this local NGO to help them with their computers. They are having problems with excel, printing and things like that, its quite an interesting organization, they provide radios (which run on solar energy) to disadvantaged areas so the kids are able to listen to stations that provide education.
In other news the African cup of nations is being played at the moment so thats basically all everyone is talking about, yesterday we went to a local pub to watch Ivory Coast play Ghana, it was quite an experience.
Im off,
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