Today I
developed the pictures! Because of that I now know of to spell all of the children’s
names, so here they will come for future reference. Only one person haven’t
been here these three days; Ebeneza. Then we have in random order; Gosperi (not
Gooseberry), Simon, Esther, Nasara junior, William, Janeth, Azra, Doreen,
Noreen, Tamali, Johnson, Jackson, Nasara, Joving, Angela, Najma, Oscar,
Julieth, Joyline, Betty, Daniel, Bryan, Andrew, Ibrahim, Dereck, Pruspa,
Eunice, Cathbet, David, Salma, Elizabeth, Khadija and Gillian. I also bought a
USB with a month worth of internet and a little memory card that can fit into
the USB and that I can take home with me after so that I can keep all of the
photos that I take here if I decide to leave my computer here which I think I
will do. I also went shopping around clock tower and the Mt. Meru crafts and
curios market (formerly known here as Maasai market). I spent so much money I
still can’t quite believe it. I spent 321.500 Tanzanian shillings (tsh) one
dollar is 1500 tsh and 4 danske kroner is 1000 tsh. So you can do the math and
figure out I did spent a lot for just one day. A lot for even a week or month
as to my usual spending, but I got a month’s worth of unlimited internet with 5
GB, 8 GB memory card, 99 developed pictures, two pairs of casual pants and four
paintings. So the only thing that I feel like maybe I shouldn’t have bought was
some of the paintings, but they are so nice all of them, and they were on my
shopping list (though maybe four was a bit excessive). When I showed Grace and
Patrick some of the pictures they kept repeating: “nzuri sana.” ‘Sana’ is a
word that you add to another word to express that you mean it a lot or very
much. Like ‘asante sana’, ‘asante’ means thanks, so ‘asante sana’ is thanks a
lot. ‘Nzuri’ is something you can use to one of the very numerous ways of
saying hallo which is ‘habari’, ‘habari’ also means news so it is like asking
if there is any news, then you answer ‘nzuri’ meaning good news or good in
general or something. So when they said ‘nzuri sana’ then they meant that it
was very good or the pictures were very good. Today a lot of people said hallo
to me there are two main easy ones used with people like me at least: ‘jambo’
and ‘mambo’. They are very similar so sometimes I am unsure which was said or I
answer the wrong ones answer. If someone says ‘jambo’ you answer ‘si jambo’, if
someone on the other hand says ‘mambo’ you have to answer ‘poa’. I finally did
my very own hand washing laundry which I am sure I will get used to by the end
of my time in east Africa, today was socks and underwear and Friday will be all
the pants and shirts and so on. With regards to Kilimanjaro then it is on for
the 6th or 7th of September and seven days onwards!
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