Sikutaka

The past weekend went quite quickly and as always I had planned to spent most of it catching up on my swahili which ended up not happening.
Saturday I tutored a few people. I had managed to find english as a second language worksheets on the internet which I had printed off. My English is ok but its obviously not the best (as I'm sure you have realised from reading this blog) and when we were going through the worksheets their was this one question that I didn't even understand, and found it difficult to explain to the student, other then that I went through the news paper with one of my students and looked at past interest rates and trying to figure out why they were moving.

Sunday morning I woke up feeling quite sick, this was quite annoying as I never really go out to restaurants here but on Saturday night I had gone to "Spur" this South African chain of steak ranches and I'm relatively sure the salad was poisoned or something. Therefore most of Sunday I was in bed untill 1 when I left for the cricket ground. I met the captain at the relatively large ground located next to a mosque. He was quite tall and basically the first thing he mentioned to me was that he was the first African to play for the national Tanzanian side (the side is basically made up of people from the subcontinent). The game started soon after, the team I was playing for was called the Dar raptors which was made up of young kids, I was the 3rd oldest after the captain and one of the fathers, they were all asking me about cricket back in Australian. Anyway back on to the game, my team bowled first, the opposition was made up of old Indians the oldest being 65 it reminded me of the 4ths back at home. Both sides had 25 overs and after about 10 in the field I was quite dehydrated and this overtook my stomach pains, it also reminded me that Im still unfit. The other team managed to make 140, which was decent on that ground. Now the ground was interesting, it was quite hard and had a turf pitch it was one of four cricket grounds "apparently" in the country.
My team came close and lost by 10 runs, I manged 18, the bowlers were ok, slow but accurate. All the kids on my team seemed to really enjoy it and since they were so young they were managing to do quite well in the senior league. They want me to come back again next week as well as going to training to help the kids out.

This past week alot of people staying here have gotten malaria so everyone is on the lookout, I dont no how some of those locals survive they casually tell me that they get malaria every few months, one of the receptionists was only able to get one day off as if he took anymore he woundn't be paid, he didnt even complain.