18/9, 19/9 and 20/9: Working, working

Today we were giving out loans to five of the women in the CHE group. We didn’t really do much else other than count the money out for them, in Swahili, and give it to them. Later today we had to visit the market in Tengeru to do business visits with some of the women from the Tupendane group. We had planned it to be from 3:30 pm, but the others moved it forward, but as I had a Swahili class from 1 to 3 pm, I couldn’t come. My class was nice, though PJ expects too much of me. in the evening I met some of the other volunteers who had just had an African workshop at Via Via and we had some dinner. That took a really long time to get ready and then she overpriced us at the end. I had another Swahili class the next day so that’s another four hours down, only 43 and a half to go… in three weeks… I will be busy. Though I feel I have been busy enough this week. Otherwise it was an office day, we started off by having a meeting with Glory, who is the leader or something of PA in Tanzania, she was one month behind as to where we were, but other than that the meeting was very productive. We also finalized the survey, which has come out really well. Then we had sports day, which was football/soccer, we won the second half, but lost the game 2 to 6 goals. It was really fun; I would just have like it to be earlier so we had more time before it got dark. On Friday a big group of volunteers set off on a four day safari, among them are Laura, Camille, Freja, Gustav and Marco. It was a short working day today because Chrissie had to go early to catch the bus to Nairobi and Elizabeth had to go to the hospital. We did some forecasting training with the Amani group, but not so much with the Mshikamano as we were there quite early. So I was home for lunch time and played a bit with the children and otherwise relaxed, as I was quite tired.