HELLO ALL! Mambo, Qwasa-kia/ma/be (new chagga word of the day) etc. Hope you are all well. First to say, thankyou for all my letters and parcels! got them today (with the exception of the kili package, grr....) and was very welcome. I was also alerted, by most of my family that my pa is reading this blog out to Gran each week and should therefore tone down some of the lanuage that may not be so tickity boo. Therfore what i propose is that after each, maybe violent exclamation, i shall follow it up with a safer alternative in brackets, for you to censor at your wish. :)
well, an awful lot has happened since i last wrote! The weekend was amaing. It was Jacks birthday so all of us trundled up to machame to re-visit the waterfalls on satureday for a birthday picnic. Amazing dayl. On arrival we dumped all our stuff and went climbing over the massive boulders, downstream. Magical veiws of the valley streched out before us, before popping back up to the waterfall at lunch. after a wet picnic (i was sat by the river which kept splashing me,how dare it) of plain pasta, chopped carrots and peppers dipped in peanut butter, avocado and tomatoe followed by biscuits and frechly ground coffee we set off again! This time up the waterfall, and as the way so so trechrous no cameras this time. Every boulder we climbed (and as they were as smooth as glass, carved by the ever thundering water i frequently slipped back onto Dan and needed a leg up) lead to a new paradise! We ewventually reached this amazing lagoon, with a waterfall pattering hard in the corner, really deep apart from one slippery rock in the middle, that, with the current was very fun to try and balance on. It was softly lit by the afternoon sun and had large lillies reaching down into the side. As we sat by the rocks we could even see a family of monkeys playing! Truly amazing day. The downside is that on the way up i got into a fight with a tree and sadly lost, resulting in a lovely strached all down my back (owee). we decided we had found Tanzanias equivilent of thailands the beach" (that really shit (ahem... rubbish) film with leo D.C in). The fact that we had no cameras made it even more specail i think. On the way down we got to the waterfall we could jump off. I umm and urred about jumping last time... and now i was at the top it looked A LONG way down! (bowut the same as the middle one at golddiggings). BUt after seeing rach and anna go down, i just couldnt not... SO I DID! so unlike me. Hit the water very hard, and i think that is what did my back in (on alot of neurophen atm) but was so fun! eee!!!!
Monday after a fun art club (drawing leaves this week, focusing o the tendrils) me and rach went to Doris and Catherin's house. They are young teachers at the school. Twas very nice to sit and chat on comfy sofas, listening to some TRUE CLASSICS. Nsync, westlife, abba and boyzone all made an appearance. nice to watch TV as well! cant wait to have them over to our house!
Tuesday was very exciting becuase MAMA LYENETTE (our rep) came to see us! Ckeck all was well with our schools, which it was then we got out of our second lessons to go and visit the victorias in lambo (travelling in a very posh 4x4). after that back to the house for tea and flapjack and genral chatting about it. We suggested haviing two AVs in each school next year, becuase we have found it so hard juggling our time with staffrooms. Wer missed chai however, and my stomach was not happy with this (chai is tanzanian tea, very sweet and served at break. The wonderful mandazi lady comes and has wonderful half akes, a mix between cake, bread and doughnut, which i have two of every break. WONDERFULL STUFF! at the weekends i pine for my chai!)
Wednesday saw no lessons in Kisololi and a midterm test in Nshara. I was intresting keeping the class silent for 2 hours (AHH!) but the results were ok. One STAR got 93% and our lowest was 93%, and seeing as im pretty sure she has severe learning disabililies its not to bad!
School is now finished for the term and we are preparing for our kili climb. We start out on saturday, doing a seven day machame route. I now think i have enough clothing, to list, when i summit (which i wiull hoping i will not sucumb to AMS) i shall be wearing;
Underwear,
Two thermal tops,
Two t-shirts,
i micro feelce,
1 wool jumper,
one sheep looking fleece,
massively thick coat,
waterproof,
two thermal trousers,
shorts,
two paris of fleece trakkies,
ski trousers,
waterproofs'
balaclava,
wooly hat,
two pairs of socks,
two pairs of gloves,
and i very much except i will still be freezing! (it being minus fuck (big) knows what)
love you all, hope the wall of corn is going good. cant wait to get back. After finishing tropple ive been treating myself to some stella hard reading, animal ark, dolphin in the deep, hell yeah (after re-reading some narnia) and now REALLY miss my cats! three months to go, thats not long... :S
love to all!
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