22/8: Second social

Today we Laura and I had the children together, we started out painting their hands on the wall because Grace wants to have something on them and that is the first step. We also played ‘stop dans’ and ‘stole dans’. In the first one you have to listen to music and freeze when it stops and if you move you are out. In the second you also listen to music but this time when the music stops you have to hurry and sit down. I think they really liked both, at least the seemed to be enjoying themselves and we only stopped when some of the parents came and lunch was ready. Afterwards we went into town. I had to get some money to pay for my Kilimanjaro trip first and then we went around clock tower and to the Mt. Meru market. We could be there longer because there was a social tonight. This time it was at Via Via, my guidebook said that it has the best soundtrack of any restaurant in town, but I am not so sure. We had traditional Tanzanian food so it was not everyone that was bothered to come, but we wanted to come for the social aspects and not the food. It was really nice because there was some people I was sitting with where we did not all know each other so well, so that made it easier to talk across the table and everybody joining in the conversation. We had to wait a long time for the food and we didn’t stay all that long but it was worth it. We agreed to meet again tomorrow night and have Chinese at the Chinese Dragon as a goodbye dinner for Michael, a German who has been here from May and will stay in East Africa until January. He is also going to Kenya with PA so I will meet him there again. Which reminds me: I haven’t actually made it official yet, but I will only be staying in Kenya for one month as I have decided that I will not need any more time there than that and that I would like to be home earlier in December.