Having just completed a ten day intensive Kiswahili basic language course it has been great having Jezzie drive up here (8.5 hours) to be together in beautifully lush, green (very wet, Amazonian forest-esq) Arusha, a town of 600,000 folk in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, for a days rest.
We were a small class of beginners; next door there were 3 intermediate students...we covered as much Kiswahili grammar in ten days as we did over six months of Swedish!
Monkeys roamed freely around the campus ... they were very tame! I discovered one sat on the dining room table, helping himself to handfuls of sugar, not disturbed by our arrival!!
Here's Jez today, working outside our room .. with Mount Meru in the background, Kilimanjiro shrouded in cloud
Tomorrow we begin interviewing for local staff to work at our office on the Scripture Mission compound, about ten minutes drive from Arusha airport where MAF will have two planes and two pilots operating out of, mainly offering medical safaris and medivac in north and mid Tanzania.
Here are some views from the bus, along the 8 hour bus journey up
Maasi market
Market with public loo (choo) in view - cost 10p to use the ..er..um...facilities (hole, bucket of water!)
Service station en route!
Locals hoping we might buy something out of the bus windows - they sell all sorts including live animals
Fields and fields of sunflowers
Local market selling the sunflower oil!
One of several rock formations ...
We'd better close now, hoping there's enough internet to send this out... you never can tell up here, electricity is intermittent too!
Love from us both
J and C xx
Great pics, and that chap looks like a George Verwer double.
ReplyDeleteoh thanks barnabus snowgood.... which chap, the one in class?
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