26/9: Fourth social

On Thursday we started off by visiting Paulina from the Amani group’s business. She has cows for milk, beans, chickpeas and she is doing quite well, but she is supporting an entire family of children and grandchildren so much of the money goes to that. After meeting her we went back to the office to work on the September report and now we are almost done, so we just need to add the finishing touches on Monday and then send it. As Chrissie will be in Zanzibar next week, it’ll just be Gustav and I until the next volunteer come sometime that week, so it is good to be done with most things. I was supposed to have a Swahili lesson today, but as PJ was in Moshi yesterday and today and left there too late, he didn’t show up. This is really irritating as I need so many more lessons in so little time I wanted to do a lot this week, now I won’t have time for anything else this weekend. In the evening it was social time, we went to the Mt. Meru hotel for a pizza buffet. The pizza wasn’t really all that interesting and it took them a long time to make, so that was nothing special, but it was fun as usual to meet all the others and talk about anything. So far we are five people for certain for the Mt. Meru trip next weekend. As Laura hasn’t been feeling all too well the last couple of days we went home after dinner, Laura had been given a letter to give to the family. A new person is coming. On Sunday. And he is going to use my room, so after two months in the same room I will move into Laura’s room, it’s going to be a bit weird, since we are used to being alone in our rooms. But it is only for two weeks until Zanzibar, where we will share a room anyway. He is from Switzerland, a year younger than me and apparently he has difficulty understanding.