4/9: Dentist

Today a new member arrived on the micro finance team; Gustav who has Danish parents, but has lived almost his entire life in Sweden, except when he did his bachelor in London. He will be here for two months. We went to a group today; CHE, five of the women have finished their loans and last time we interviewed one of them, but the others weren’t there. They were today so we did four post loan interviews and it was really interesting to learn what they had used the loan for. One of them bought a cow, a male cow, that hasn’t brought her any income yet, so she used her other businesses to pay for the loan, but when she sells it she will get some 900,000 tsh. Another sells beans in Nairobi, another yet has been sick so she hasn’t really done all that much. It was a good day in the field all in all. Then in the afternoon I finally went to the dentist. I got in pretty fast and I had the same experience that I have had when I was in Tunisia and a guy in a market spoke Danish I couldn’t believe it, but he really did, he was fluent. The dentist wasn’t fluent but he spoke some kind of Scandinavian. He has studied in Oslo, which means that while he was trying to fix my braces I kept repeating to myself; he studied in Oslo, he studied in Oslo, he studied in Oslo interspersed with the occasional I hate my dentist. In the end he fixed it, for now, though it isn’t all that pretty but that doesn’t really matter because it is facing into my mouth. As this was in Njiro, we, Laura was with me, went to the Njiro shopping complex afterwards, we will definitely return because they have a big supermarket that is cheaper than Sakina supermarket, tons of restaurants, a cinema and all kinds of other stuff.