The last and the forthcoming weekend
Since Matilda S already wrote about our weekend in Dar es Salaam, I won't bore you repeating all the happenings. We really enjoyed the wedding, bot the ceremony in church and the celebration in the evening, though we felt sorry for the bridal couple since the electricity was out for a very long time, just before the dinner was supposed to be served. But, since this is something the tanzanians are very used to, they remained calm. I admire them because of this. Back in Sweden people would have panicked, haha. Luckily, the electricity came back after maybe 40, 50 minutes.
I am not a fan of big cities, but I still appreciated all the things we experienced - the wedding, the dala dala:s, the nice view from the restaurant we had dinner at friday evening (at the 11th floor) and many other things.
Today we've had Kiswahili lesson with Esther and Irene. We learned about the most heavy grammar part; the noun classes and the possessive pronouns. There are nine noun classes (or at least there should be) and the plural forms of the nouns vary a lot! For example, you say mkulima (one farmer), wakulima (several farmers). This is the first class. But then your say mti - miti (tree, trees), which belong to the second class. The third class says that jicho (eye) becomes macho (eyes) and according to the fourth class kitabu (book) becomes vitabu (books). Then there are five more classes and, of course, lots of exceptions... So, we've got much to learn in a short time!
I forgot, I've got a anecdote to tell: This morning, I went up and was supposed to go having breaktfast in the cafeteria. The problem was, couldn't get out of my room, because of the door. Something had happen to the door lock! I looked and found that a part in the lock was broken. I went to my window, waiting and hoping for someone to pass outside. Emma became my rescuer and tried to help me, she called for the others and they also tried to help me. Ludvig was kind and brought me breakfast, so that I was able to eat through the bars beneath the window, haha. Emma joined me. Suddenly our teacher Philamon showed up, he laughed a lot and brought the carpenter who removed the whole lock so that I could get out for class. So now I can't close my door properly, waiting for a new door lock! And for you mum, isn't it ironic that you told me yesterday, just before i went to bed, about my sister's son Alexander (2 years old) who had locked in his grand mother in the earth cellar, by mistake! And then the morning after I wake up and can't get out of my room, haha!
However, one day left in class and on friday, we will go by bus to Dar again and from there, to Bagamoyo.
Tutaonana baadaye!
Dar es salam
Pa lordagen sa akte vi till ett shoppingscenter, ett kliv in i moderniteten, och man kan kopa snygga skor for 200 spann dar, sa jag tror jag vet vart jag kommer spendera mina sista pengar nagonstans =) VBi kopte i alla fall en b\rollopspresent till Alfred och Stella.
Ceremonin kom vi lite forsent till men vi fick se det viktigaste anda, Och det roliga ar att nar dom sager ja, och byter ringar sa blir det massa skrik och rop och applader typ lite som inidantjut fran alla gaster. Lite mer spannande an brollop i Sverige.
Brollopsfesten var det ocksa mycket dans, forst ska brudens slakt dansa in och sen brudgummens, och sen ar det dansupptradande och sa ska brudnabbarna dansa in och ja, massa dans. Sen ska aven alla dansa fram presenterna till brudparet. Sen skulle vi ata mat och efter att ha sett portionerna sa sa alla att vi va vegetarianer for att komma undan lite mat. Och det funkade. Fast alla blev nog anda sjukt matta.
Efter brollopet sa beger vi oss till en nattkklubb i Dar och dansar hela natten. Det ar lite annorlunda mot Sverige, for ett, tanzanianer ar grymma pa att dansa. 2, folk blir inte like fulla, och ar mest dar for att dansa och dricker vatten hela kvallen. 3, Det finns prostituterade, dom ar ganska sa lattkladd. 4, det finns efterblivna indier som inte forstar nar man sager att man inte ar intresserad och att dom ska ga ivag. 5, dom kan inte blanda drinkar och man koper sprit, och lask forsig och far blanda sjalv.
Nu hinner jag inte skriva mer men slanger in en bild pa en nufunnen van och mig i Rasta flator.
Dar - es - salam
Vi ska aven passa pa att testa pa utelivet dar, sen hoppas nog dom flesta pa att fa ata nagot annat an ris.
Sjalvklart far vi ledig tfran skolan imorgon for att kunna aka buss och vara framme i god tid. =)
Till mamma och pappa
Hon sa att hon kunde ta hand om mina barn, mina klader och min hund om hon fick folja med.
Sa om ni betalar en flygbiljett sa kan jag nog fixa sa hon lagar mat, tvattar, tar hand om fiskarna och om er istallet, eftersom jag inte har nagra barn.
Har vi en deal?
ris
Eco-tourism & swahili-lesson
Jambo!
As Emma wrote in the latest update, we have started our first week with lessons at SEKUCo! My name is Martina and this will be my very first narrative text at this blog. I will write in English since I have friends abroad who are interested in this course we're taking and want to hear about our experiences. From now on we've got access to the computers in school but since I brought my own laptop and the wireless broadband also is working in the university area, I will be able to surf while sitting in my room everyday from now on! So, hopefully, there will be many updates about our daily life in Lushoto!
We started this morning with the same breakfast as all mornings - white bread (mkate) with jam or peanut-butter, eggs, (mayai) avocado, cucumber (tango) and tomatoes (nyanya) and tea (chai). Later on, we had our first lesson in eco-tourism with our mwalimu (teacher) Shekivuli Sadiki. He taught us about the basics and the principles of eco-tourism and also told us about the 15 National Parks of Tanzania, the 43 game reserves, the 23 game control areas and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority. We saw a short movie about the Manda Wilderness project and our teacher taught us about the importance of cooperating with the local people and to contribute to the ongoing conservation of natural areas. It was a really interesting lesson, and since I am very interested in natural and environmental sciences and would like to work with environmental questions during my time as a trainee, I guess I will have many questions for next lesson, next week!
In our Kiswahili-lesson today, we were taught more about the family members and questions about them but also about different activities and meals during the day. Our task and homework for tomorrow, is to write about our activites during a normal saturday (Jumamosi) or sunday (Jumapili) for us while here in Tanzania, but we can make up whatever activities we want.
This will be enough for so long, but I'll show some pictures from our time here so far since we weren't able to update the blog in the beginning of this adventure (some days I'll exclude since Emma has shown pictures from them already):
Matilda S and the view from the bumpy road up to Lushoto and SEKUCo
It's a beautiful day! Just before breakfast outside our rooms.
The view from our rooms.
Campus A, where we are staying.
The main buildning. The office of the provost - Anneth Munga - the secretary, computer laboratory etc.
Lunch at Irente Farm/Irente Biodiversity
Happy girls (and boy) near Irente view point.
Evelina and Turid, near Irente view point.
Happy, fantastic people in front of breath-taking, marvelous view at Irente View Point!
...including me, to the right!
Me by another edge.
Part of a sugar cane - to crunch on!
Linda & Emma fixing with their kangas, bought at the market.
Hiking to the nearest waterfall.
Matilda S and Evelina are doing a great job putting up a clothes-line.
Tutaonana baadaye!
/M
Bilder från första veckan
I vantan på bilen som ska ta oss ner till stan.
Forsta skoldagen
Nasta lunch - Jag gissar pa att det blir ris.
BOMBA! = kanonbra!
Nu i veckan har vi varit i staden lushoto, korogwe, gatt pa marknad, besokt skolor, barnhem och irente view point m.m.
Bilder fran veckan kommer inom en snar framtid!!
Hoppas allt ar gott hemma i Sverige!
nu är vi framme....
lite av vår vecka
Paddling
Taggade...
Slottsruinen
Framme :)
Tacos & Morotskaka
Här lagas det tacos och morotskaka!
Ludiv dammsuger, jag river morötter och Caitlin hackar sallad!
Bwana Ludvig!
Morotskaka: smet och glasyr! De e najs!
Matilda vid maten! Här var lite bilder från kvällen då vi åt tacos och morotskaka och pratade med Anna om Tanzania!
/Emma
