After our post yesterday, we had our first trip into the town of Moshi where we visited a few crafts shops and the local market. Moshi is colorful- women wearing bright fabrics, churches ornately painted in bold colors, worn-down advertisements adorning every storefront and bright fresh fruits for sale on every street corner. The people are friendly and anxious to practice English and teach visitors Swahili (and sell them things of course). Everyone was yelling at us to "give them five" and "hello mama". While at the market, we bought 2 types of mangos, miniture bananas, and green oranges and are excited to try everything!
It smells funny here...kinda like B.O., a taxi cab and burning wood, but we are getting used to the smell! The food is good (lots of rice, Oogali (mushy corn pasty mush), vegetables, and bananas) and we eat avacados from the tree behind our Home Base every day...they are HUGE and delicious.
Last night we went with the other volunteers to a local outdoor bar called The Watering Hole. It is on the grounds of a base for tourists leaving on safari. Weekly, they show movies outside on a big screen and serve beer, so last night we drank Kilimanjaro beer and watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Kinda funny, but we were tired and it was a good way to see a new place and not have to talk to much.
Today we spent most of our time at the Home Base learing more about our Placements and having a REALLY long boring Swahili lesson. We met two teachers from our Placement at the Tumani Nursury school. The two men were really nice and excited to have our help with the 25 students ranging in age from 3-7. The conversation got a bit interesting when they asked us our view on Corporal Punishment, because their typical punishment is "caining children"... or in their words "There is always a "cain" in African".
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