It’s 35 degrees today – just a tad warm. In fact by the time I’ve done my 45 minute walk back home I will probably just be a small puddle.
Yesterday was obviously Tanzanian national be cruel to animals day as small children seemed fascinated by squashing birds, throwing birds, kicking kittens and tormenting lizards – lovely. As you can imagine the bird throwing was my least favourite thing.
Yesterday was also Moshi bad smell day. Every day I have to walk past a very large rubbish dump – it’s a joy I tell you but yesterday it surpassed itself with ickiness as the main downtown sewer burst right next to it so it was a choice between tiptoing around the sewage but having to get rather closer to the rubbish dump than I would have liked, or wading through the sewage. I chose the first option and amused many locals with my graceful leaps across puddles of goodness knows what!
Rather excitingly I have been invited to one of my ladies’ daughter’s secondary school graduation on Friday. Turns out it’s quite a big thing so I will wear my new Africa outfit (that my ladies made and is surprisingly lovely – I may even wear it at home). I also think I should probably get her a present but have no idea what. I did my first real bit of haggling yesterday which I was quite proud of and managed to get a rucksack for 11,000 TSh (about 4 quid) when the guy originally wanted 18. I even did it in Swahili!
Rather excitingly I am off to Zanzibar next week for a bit of lying around in the sun. Despite the ridiculous heat over here I remain fairly pale thanks to the generous application of factor 50 every morning. Well factor 50 on my face, factor 0 on my legs and have they gone the slightest bit brown? Oh no!
