My class is going well, yesterday I went over to "the" Germans house (refer to an early blog post to who the German is) along with my teacher and the other student in the class, he lives with his wife in a place called sinza a suburb of Dar es salaam. It was quite a nice house, we were also treated to quite a feast that I havnt had for a while. His wife works for a German development agency where she consults with a local NGO that focuses on civics in schools. She was complaining about the bureaucracy she has to go through and basically saying how the agency has a certain way of doing things and they want her to implement these ways in Africa in which she says is impossible, we then got onto the topic of AID which very much interested me.
The lattitude volunteers left yesterday to go all over Tanzania, most of them were quite happy as they didnt really like Dar its very dirty and can be quite busy. On Thursday I met them again in the city and we went to a few craft shops where they could buy some curios. Most of them tried eating ugali which is the local stable here in Africa made from maize meal, some of them thought it was ok, but they didnt really like it, they all knew though that they would most likely be eating it at least once a day.
Today I'm holding my own classes again 3 people will be coming for English classes and I have just spent a bit of time finding worksheets for them to do, everyday I'm now getting at least 3 people wanting to attend my classes but most I have to say no to as I just dont have any time.
Ohh and tomorrow is the cricket match which is quite exciting.
So in general nothing that exciting has been happening here, just the usual stuff, better go off now and catch up on my missed Swahili.
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