Amelewa

I thought I would give you a brief update about how my classes went.
On Saturday I had three people come and see me after they responded to my ad, the first guy was in his mid 30's doing a masters in business and he had taken an economics subject that he was struggling with, hence I spent about an hour with him going over some basic economic theory as well as some basic financial maths.
The next guy also needed help in economics but with this guy, I went through some relevant economics (which at times is hard to find) the guy had gotten a loan not of a huge amount and he wanted to know about interest rates and inflation, and how that affects his loan, needless to say it was quite interesting and I think he actually learnt quite a bit of practical stuff.
The last person was a women who was studying journalism and she needed help with english, so for the class we just spent the time talking as I wanted to see how her english held up.
I have two more classes on Wednesday.
There have also been quite a few other people respond to my ad who just wanted to be friends, ahh Africa.

In other more interesting news my beginners class finished on Friday, so in celebration we went to the city to have a look at the local markets, the market stall were mainly taken by fresh food and vegies as well as fish, generally I hate fish markets but this fish market was much worse then anything I had smelt before, mainly due to it being underground and hence air ventilation was non it was quite a challenge to stay down there for more then a few seconds but hey I learnt a few new words like "what smells, this place smells"
My intermediate Swahili course starts on Monday, I wont be coming to the first day though as I have to go to a meeting with the head of lattitude in Tanzania (Lattitude being the volunteer organisation I help out with in Melbourne) the volunteers to Tanzania from AUS and the UK will be arriving on Tuesday so we have to organise an orientation with them. Im sure most when they get off the plane they will be in awe.

Here in Tanzania their is quite a large number of "white people" who mainly work here with NGO's I have spoken to quite a few of them, they all seem really nice, but hardly any of them no the language and they admit its a huge problem, which really just reinforces my decision to learn Swahili.

Yesterday I also met this Tanzanian man who runs a local cricket club for the kids they are called the Dar raptors and he wanted me to come down to their next game on Sunday to help out, which I am quite excited about.

Joe