Ninajifunza

Since my last update a few things have happened.
On Tuesday the new lattitude volunteers arrived, the first group were 9 British volunteers arriving at 8am I wasnt able to meet them at the airport as I had class so Judy the local rep for lattitude went and picked them up. I managed to get to their hostel the YWCA at 12 soon after Judy left to pick 2 Australians up who had taken Qatar air. The Uk volunteers were left with me, which was quite interesting as I didnt really no Dar es salaam well as I had only been to the city a few times, but they all wanted to go to the market after we had gotten some food (we got Steers a South African company). Catching the Dalala in the city is a struggle as not many people can speak english and the volunteers didnt no a word, my swahili managed to hold up quite well and they all seemed quite impressed.
Although their was a small problem, one of the girls got her camera stolen while we were crossing the road to catch the bus, now the guy who robbed her was quite skilled, she had her camera in a bum bag just below her stomach and the guy had walked across her and in one motion unzipped her pouch and took the camera, she didnt realise it was gone until she had gotten on the bus.
I felt quite bad as she had been in the country not longer then a few hours and she had already been robbed, we were very easy targets I guess. Im quite surprised I havnt been robbed yet, at the time she had been robbed I had a MP3 player, camera, phone, money and a credit card in my pocket haha.
Being in such a big group of westerners we attracted quite a large amount of attention, and not many of the people talking to us could speak swahili so I got to practice quite a bit.
Tomorrow Ill be seeing the volunteers again to go shopping and do other various things. At the moment I need to catch up on quite a bit of Swahili I have missed.

Joe