Even though cows are being milked daily in front of our house, no one makes butter. Blue Band is the local margarine and it has to be spread thinly. So, when we heard there was one place to buy real butter in Lushoto, we searched long and hard and often. Should you ever be wanting butter in Lushoto, here's the secret. And, a well kept secret it is! First, you walk to a dental clinic, go into the reception room, ignoring the patients with toothaches, and knock on the first door on your right. A gauzed-masked woman with an instrument [View Full Entry]

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Dear Friends and Family, Another Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching and we know how busy everyone is at this time of year. Please know that we wish you all a very happy day and we'll be home for the next one. In the meantime we will host, as we did last year, our local celebration. We expect 13, but we'll feed whomever shows up. The menu stays the same (you can check out last year's blog) with 1 major improvement: pumpkin pie! Theresa went home for her brother's wedding last month and returned with the pie fixings and tins. So, as everyone [View Full Entry]

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Het is half 10 in de avond. Er hangt een vredige stilte rond de huisjes van de sekuco universiteit. De dunne maan glimlacht zacht en goedkeurend in het lichtspektakel van de open sterrenhemel. Gedurende de nacht zal de warme lucht afkoelen en condenseren waardoor morgenvroeg weer een diepe mistlaag zal voorbijtrekken tot deze verdwijnt in het regenwoud en hete zonnestralen een nieuwe dag inleiden. Ik gok dat Marianne al slaapt. Het is dan ook naar Afrikaans ritme al laat in de avond en het avondeten is al meer dan een uur verteerd. Dit laatste is belangrijk aangezien we ondervonden hebben dat [View Full Entry]

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Hello Again! We're in Lushoto to pick up PCTs who are showing with us to see what to expect of life in the village.Naturally each village has its own personality, but it does give a taste before they are sworn in and settled in their village. Since several of us our hosting, we are all meeting here to do the usual necessities before lunching. Many PCVs have been traveling, visiting with family from home, attending workshops, and working hard so it will be fun to get all caught up. The rhythm of our village has changed to harvest the carrots which [View Full Entry]

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Well this is the last few days of a very relaxing and entertaining trip. I hope to include pictures of both our visits to Pangani and Zanzibar. We had a great time snorkling on Maziwe Island in Pangani. While visiting Pangani we attended the weekly market which featured local crafts and certainly ate our fill of the great food at Mkoma Bay Tented Resort. Our hosts Lisa (RPCV) and Ulrick Lind were most helpful and cordial. All in all it was a very restful visit concludine with a sumptous 4th of July banquet. Early the next morning Lisa gave us a [View Full Entry]

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We've had a relaxing, fun time with our family. We gave them a taste of TZ at our site. so many of our new fridents welcomed them into their homes complete with TZ food and warm TZ hospitality. After our site, we headed to Tanga, Pangani Beach, Zanzibar, and ending up in Dar es-Salaam where Jen and Dylan fly out on Monday evening. Hopefully they feel relaxed by now before the 20 hour flight home. We met another PCV Katie and her sister and parents doing a similar trip. I'm glad we had a whole month to see as muc as [View Full Entry]

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Dear Readers, Too much to do, but we've had a relaxing, fun time with our family representives. We have given them a taste of TZ at our site. So many of our new friends welcomed them into their homes, complete with TZ food and warm TZ hospitality. Now we are off on Phase 3 of our travels which will take us to Tanga. Pangani Beach, Zanzibar, and Dar-es-Salaam. They have pitched right in with chores and with nightly games of Hearts. Jenn was a little frightened when we ran out of water yesterday...she has water anxieties, but all I cared about [View Full Entry]

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Dear Bloggies, Jennifer and Dylan have arrived from CA and they look wonderful. It's been a year without family and it was hard. But, now that we are together it's time to go on safari and do the tourist things. We met them at the Kilimanjaro Airport and recognized them instantly; we look a little different: thinner, grayer, older but they saw us and knew who we were. After talking non-stop we all got some sleep before setting off early the next day with a Lushoto guide Omari, driver-guide Lewis, and chef George in a Toyota Land Cruiser with raised roof [View Full Entry]

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Dear Readership, Doesn't that make you feel important? I never have time to reread my blogs, so I always hope I'm not repeating myself. I know I've done blogs on sights & sounds of TZ, but have I done smells? So, inhale this blog and I hope your imagination will make it come alive. At site one can always smell the cows. They bed about 50' from our livingroom so we can REALLY enjoy them. Otherwise, the cowherd has them grazing on the property. Barefoot and in tattered attire, he is constantly watching them. He has a long, slender stick which [View Full Entry]

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Dear Springtime blog readers, Here is your first autumn blog. In our Life Skilss-Health club we had 120 students packed into one classroom. That made our small group activity on decision making have 30 in it...small group? But, the kids are eager and want to be there,so how can we turn them away? One more note of local interest, today as we were waiting for a long-overdue bus, the entire student body of Mtumbi Secondary School passed by in clusters of green uniforms. They all 500PLUS SAID "GOOD MORNING, SIR...GOOD MORNING, MADAM." and the closest ones shook our hands and then [View Full Entry]

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