Tuesday, December 15, 2009

africa's the same

i've been working on this computer for 1/2 an hour and managed to send
2 emails. that's because a homing pigeon could probably carry the data
faster!!

and try international calling ... even to neighbouring tanzania! wow!
what a challenge. it took me about 1 hour of walking around, asking at
several places, waiting and waiting only to make a 30 second phone
call that dropped out because of insufficient credit! so the kiosk
girl went to buy another recharge card and we tried again (a few
times). finally managed to talk to someone in dodoma about flights
with MAF. got the critical information across before it cut out again.

jane's exhausted - actually feeling a bit sick. snotty and very tired
from the crazy days in germany with claudi and hardy. though we had a
really great time with them and their family at the wedding. we're
taking our malaria drugs religiously and easing into the context.

the mix of english and swahili is typical nairobi. i'm having fun
speaking swahili and moving easily in the culture. someone at the
guest house here remembered me from when i was a 1 year-old (nancy)!!

money's another difficult issue here... we've only brought a few
hundred US dollars, but it seems we will need more than we have to get
around. another challenge! :)

ok. i'm heading off for an afternoon sleep...

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