Our teacher today told us a funny story:
For this story you need to no one thing: In swahili the word fua means take off your clothes and the work vua means wash clothes.
One of the teachers other students wanted his clothes washed by the maid so he went to the maid to ask her. He asked her "fua the maid in astonishment said "no I do not do that" and the guy replied with "you have to thats your job" and subsequently offered her money saying that he would even pay her, long story short he apparently got arrested. Ha
This Tuesday is the Zanizibar revolution holiday so we get Tuesday off, we also decided to take Monday off so we can have a long weekend. I have decided to travel to Zanzibar on Saturday coming back on Tuesday.Zanizbar hasnt had power for over month and they wont be getting any till March, which is quite abnormal even for Africa, imagine if they didnt have power in Australia for that long. Although most of the hotels have generators many had to close down, so it's going to be a ghost town.
My lessons are getting better, the teacher makes it quite interesting and we play lots of games ie flash card games. The hardest part is listening to other people speak Swahili and then translating that to English. I'm comfortable now to ask questions and greet people on the street . I went to the grocery store yesterday for bananas and had to order in Swahili unfortunately I gave him the wrong number and I couldnt understand what he said so I got double the amount of them.
Im off
Joe
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