21/8: Dirty Day!

Today we had a Dirty Day at the Naserian School that nobody seems to have heard about, but it was very nice. We painted the outside on one side of the building, the side facing visitors and not the forest in the back. We were almost there all day and it was a lot of work and a lot of waiting and a lot of sun. I don’t get brown in the sun; I get red or pink, so now I have a very nice t-shirt line on my arm and my neck. Had another Kiswahili lesson after that, not quite as easy anymore, but I did expect that. I learned about how to negate a sentence. So if I take the example from last time: “I am eating now” and negate it, it would be: “I am not eating now”, the positive in Kiswahili is “mimi ninakula sasa”, the negative is “mimi sili sasa”. Because they take the time thing out completely because the add stuff for the past, I didn’t learn the future tense yet for this. But “I was not eating yesterday”, would be “mimi sikula jana”. Before when it was positive the double pronoun was in this order: ni/u/a/tu/m/wa, in negative present it would be: si/hu/ha/hatu/ham/hawa, then you would add the verb but put and ‘I’ in the back instead of the last vowel. Because in the negative past it would be siku/huku/haku/hatuku/hawaku and then adding the verb it the same form. Also learn other stuff as well, but I’m sure this will do for now. So that was two more hours, 57 left to go. I won’t have more classes this week as she is fully booked tomorrow and I am doing something else on Friday. It will also be easier to do it when I am doing microfinance as I will be at the office a lot. On Friday I will be going with Patrick Jr. to Moshi to pay half of my Kilimanjaro trip so that they can book everything for me, though I have many questions for them before they will see my money. Maybe we will also go to the waterfalls, but I would have to pay around 35,000 tsh, which is not bad for something like that, I am already going to a Maasai village on Saturday for around 30,000 tsh and they are planning another hot springs thing on Sunday, but I think I will pass on that one as well and just relax or do some more apartment hunting in Sweden with my sister. I am going to Robert’s Maasai village, which I have heard should be really good. I would probably prefer to bring lunch though instead of drinking goats’ blood and things like that.