24 July 2008

I woke up this morning at 5 am to rain! Rain is a very good thing and common in this area, but since it has been very chilly the past few days. We have been wearing pants long sleeve shirts and jackets!! This morning was perfect weather for hot chocolate and coffee mmmm . . . . it was perfect till I took a sip and ended up with a dead bee in my mouth. I guess that's what happens sometimes when you are in Tanzania :)

The place we are currently staying at is called TCDC Training of development cooperation center. It is in a compound so there are a bunch of little units with two separate rooms. Here they train people from all over the world to get them ready to spend time in Tanzania for what ever reason they are here for. The classes we are taking have to deal a lot with the language and the culture. They have a dining hall where we get all of our meals and they have clean water all the time for us. A computer facility with free Internet. :) I'm staying in one with Stacey and we have our own bathroom with a shower!! We are so lucky that there is even hot water!!

I have been talking a lot with other students from our program and we all have kinda agreed that we thought we would have been more impacted by some of the things that we have seen. There are so many things to take in these next few weeks and it will take a long time to process everything that we have done and seen. So for right now I will keep on writing down my experiences so I don't forget and slowly start to process everything that we are seeing and hearing.

Well I am headed off to a lecture, then later go to a coffee farm to harvest some coffee beans and then lunch at a local resturant.

Have a great Day!!

Love,
Wendy