Well what a week it has been here in Enjiro Arusha. its only Tuesday and already the week has been filled....
so let me start at the beginning as that is a good place to begin.
last Monday i started the new school term, term 2 actually, WOW where did that time go eh????
so last week almost seems like a blur, as so much happened, but i think i can manage to re tell some of the happenings from here. as school is now back and the term begun, i was given 3 new children to add to my class of what was already 26 children. but in that being said some children were then moved and shuffled around, and thus now i am back to having 28, only one less.
on Wednesday i had a public holiday, don't really know what this one was for, but i sure was grateful for a 4 day week. a nice way to begin the new school term. on this public holiday i was without my car as it was being fixed in the shop by the fundi's. Apparently the suspension had gone. nothing surprising, but alas i took the dala dala (public bus) into a cafe to skype with people. but alas the Internet that day was so horrid that i gave up and was about to leave when i saw 2 friends who i rarely see much of these days. so we sat in the rain (for some of the time), and ate ice cream and caught up. then i began my journey back home by dala dala again. this time i had to share the floor with several chickens that had there feet tied up. (i think they were going to be dinner for some that night). they lasted only part of the trip before they left the dala dala and i was able to put my feet completely on the floor... this did bring me back down to the reality, that i live in Africa, and that its not uncommon when catching public transport that it will often be shared with chickens and goats, and many other living animals. i then got off the dala dala and walked for quite a while down the road before being rescued by some friends who were driving. what a day that was...
it then got to Thursday, where this was back to a 'normal' working day. though when i say normal really i mean expect the unexpected here at anytime.
every other week we have a team dinner with all the staff on my base, so i was able to go to this, and enjoy some good fellowship with great people.
Friday rolled on by so fast i blinked and the day was over. it was filled with meetings, and work and then a great dinner had with a good mate Jenny. we enjoyed good food and good dessert too. this was a really nice way to end the week.
the weekends here really do just seem to fly by. by the time Sunday rolls around i stop and think where has this time gone... as I'm sure we all do.
weekends here are usually filled with catching up on rest , washing, and preparing for the week ahead.
every other Sunday night we have team worship, as we finished the worship time we found out that the power line had fallen down right outside of our base. don't worry we are all ok. no one was hurt or anything, unlike in Aus where you call the people to get them to come straight away here we waited for 2 and a half days for the lines to be fixed, they were not actually going to fix them but were convinced by some of our workers fix them....
SO as with having no power, we then had no water, as the power needs to pump the water. so a day without water, was had, and we were all so grateful to borrow the bases generator to pump the water. this just makes me stop and thank God for what we do have here, and just how precious our water is.
in saying all of this we have had some really cold times here. the rains have come and we have had 5 days of on and off rain.... the rains come down so much that it then prevents some of the kids walking to school.
as some of you may know i was in the wedding party for my house mates wedding. this all took place just before the end of the school holidays. it was a great time had by all. but now I'm so thankful to be back into a routine. though holidays are nice, 1 month break was enough for me.
well i shall leave you all on that note and will update again soon.
blessings to you all.
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