and i don't have enough airtime to call him... so dad - happy birthday. [View Full Entry]

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I need to relate two daladala experiences with everyone. One is from Monday, one from today. On Monday, I went to the Saba Saba day celebrations (see previous entry). Our daladala had a live chicken in the back. And this chicken was not in any sort of cage. Now, to be fair, none of us knew that there was a live chicken in the trunk until about halfway through the trip when we started hearing noises. Since all daladala windows are practically permanently open, we figured that the noises were coming from outside. Until they seemed to follow us. Since we [View Full Entry]

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Did a morning run, found a very neat path leads right to Mt. Meru, almost no traffic, got huge trees on each side, passed by a fancy club called Gymknaka, it's a private club for members only, they even have 2-3 tennis court, very neat, but apparently drop in is not allowed. on the otherside is High Court, pretty cool too. Aziz took us to the central market to practice bargaining, which is quite useful, since all the numbers becoming making sense now, we had a list of stuffs to buy, got all of them with a decent price, I bought [View Full Entry]

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i'm at the international criminal tribunal for rwanda right now at the library. trying to write a stupid paper due in a few hours... wanted to blog quick. tanzania is beautiful, but it's actually really cold. we're staying at klub afriko - 7 private bungalow with grass roofs - it's nice... but not hot water, no electricity in our room and last night was freezing cold. miss everybody [View Full Entry]

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Probably still woke up at 6am and was thinking about go for a quick morning run, but for whatever reasons, just want to stay in bed for a bit longer and end up getting up at around 8:15am, and that is a record breaking for the days I'm here so far since I was consistently getting up around 6-7am. Language training continued on this morning, the weird part in Swahili is their way of describe time is not quite exactly the same as in English, there's actually 6hrs difference, so if it's 10am in the morning, the way they say it [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone! Just wanted to inform you all that this will be my "blogspot" while I'm away this summer in Tanzania! I obviously don't have much to say as of now, but once I get this going feel free to check it often, I'm going to try and update the blog as much as their internet access allows me. Hopefully sometime soon I'll have many "exotic" African encounters to tell you all about! -K [View Full Entry]

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Today was Saba Saba . Saba Saba translates as "Seven Seven," saba being the Kiswahili word for seven. Saba Saba (July 7th, get it?) is a national holiday here in Tanzania that celebrates...farmers? Something like that. All I know is that it meant that we had no class today. Barak (the program director here in Mwanza) was kind enough to tell us that Saba Saba is really just a big market for tractor parts. But when we went to the market today (a few of us, at least) we did not see any tractor parts but did see a lot of [View Full Entry]

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Today is public holiday, 7.7, apparently it has something to do with farmer/harvesting, most of business places close today, but to us, Language class starts today, the instructor called Aziz, pretty funny guy, we went through the history/roots of Swahili, it's pretty neat to actually get a chance to understand the language a little bit, instead of just know how to say "hello" or "thank you", but it's not an easy thing for me to pick up a language, never been too good at languages, but I'll still see what I can get out of the week long training. Don't expect [View Full Entry]

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Sunday is a resting day, so all we did is went to the central market to grab some fruit and stuffs, it's a pretty huge market, lots of stuffs, apparently, lots of thieves as well, people seems pretty nice, everywhere you go, people greet you by different languages, English/Swahili/Japanese/Chinese, first time, you thought people just being nice, after a few times, you'll figure out they just want to sell you stuffs, get the money out of your pocket, then it becomes a bit annoying. We have the whole afternoon off, I played the soccer with a bunch of kids, oh man, [View Full Entry]

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The Richardson Family Report July 6, 2008 We hope and pray that this report finds each of you healthy and happy in service to our Lord. After what was a great month of June, with all of the activities and the many visitors that we were blessed to have this summer, we quickly find ourselves already into July. We would be amiss, if we failed to thank each one of you who came this summer, as well as all of those back home that made it possible for you all to be here. All of our guest are special, but one [View Full Entry]

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