Afrika and I

What a day!

Coast. My home feeling.

A simply fantastic day. Beauty. Friendliness. National Park wildness. Hiking and climbing not to sniff at.

Good Friday. Charles takes us on a tour of the city: hotels, lakefront, downtown and suburbs. We have a fresh juice at the Malaika Resort Hotel and I have a latte and seafood pizza at the Tilapia Hotel. We even have quick tour of the outdoors market area. Friendly, relaxing day. I learn how to greet an elderly person, a young person and a child when asking directions. I can get the gist right sometimes in conversations in Swahili and sometimes a few details. Ndio ! African chapati for supper. I love it even though it is completely unhealthy.

Locked out of Surface leads to practicing letting go and opens way to great work day , teambuilding, and plans gor Easter long weekend.

We are taxied by the college to and from the hotel every morning and evening by Mif. ( Please excuse misspellings on names.)  I feel I am becoming friends with some of the team and am working well with others on the Mwanzaé Canada team curriculum team. I am working with: Rehema Binamungu, Charles Mpambwe, Jeff Kuntz, Juma Makoye, Joseph Massaga, Thadeus Panga  and John Kingese. (Leah  Lukindo and Alan Copeland, Cecelia Rugimbana will  join us next week.) Also, their is now a friendliness and camaraderie with with staff at the Ismailo Hotel: Grace, Josephat, David, Peter, Johannes, Andalousia,  and others.  Our project work is well done and is progressing better than expected.  Today,  we have the best meal ever: roasted goat and casava leaves/groundnut sauce for lunch. Charles organizes nutritious snacks as well: today,  boiled eggs and mandeze, a kind of donut.  All the team accommodates me by turning OFF the AC. I am...

It is hot and dry. No AC at in room we worked in today. Thankful. Great team that I am part of. We learn to distinguish between piki piki (private bike) boga boga ( passenger licensed) and dala dala ( mini bus).