So... Amanda has gone home now and Jess has arrived. I felt the weirdest ever hanging around at the Airport waiting once Amanda had gone through and Jess hadn't arrived. Being at the airport, and feeling after 5 weeks that it might be about time to be going home (longest time I have ever been away anyway!) and yet not actually going anywhere. A kind of deep longing in the pit of the stomach... which has long gone since I lay by the pool all afternoon yesterday and then read about the beach we are going to at the weekend.
Jess and I have moved into our new accommodation and have started at the hospital. We are staying at a place run by a local family for students, mostly studying swahili at the language school down the road. Having said that actually there are only 4 of them at the moment, us and 4 architecture students from copenhagen. We get all our food cooked for us... which is yummy. I have tried lots of new things... had Ugali for the first time today (not entirely sure how I made it through 6 weeks in Tanzania without having ugali before now but nevermind!) BUT I think that I am going to put soooo much weight on from having 3 cooked meals a day. I am in a constant state of fullness but is seems impolite to not eat everything they pile on the plate!
We started at the hospital yesterday. The person that we arranged our elective with no longer exists but they let us do it anyway. We are doing Paediatrics this week which is good because the Drs are all nice and friendly. It doesn't look like we are going to get much practical experience apart from examinations here but I'm ok with that. There are probably about 10 other medical students here...we have now met most of them...apparently if you make it to the end of the morning you have had a long day, and most people take atleast a day off a week to go to beach anyway. We are going to try to be good and go in everyday atleast (even if it is only til 11am!)
At the weekend we are going to go to the beach at Paje. It looks soooo nice! CANNOT WAIT! I don't think there is much to do there apart from sunbathing and relaxing but I plan on learning the beauty of doing nothing.
Salx
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If you go to the coconut processors, imaine how lucky I was to find my contact lens in amongst the copra pit!
Have you been to the slave buildings yet?
Well Sally, you haven't really had any time off since August 2006, so enjoy relaxing!
Hope you are taking lots of photos, have you found better computers for up-loading any yet?
love mum and dad x
going to the slave buildings next week I think...
Mum- I tried to upload some photos but basically it ended up just deleting my whole memory card... Luckily I had already burned a CD of them which Amanda is going to post to you so you will prob get it before i get back and you can open it and look at them.
Salx
I bet it's a laugh a minute staying with four architecture students!
Well, we managed over a year in Tanzania and didn't eat ugali - probably because like you in Muheza we mostly cooked for ourselves (though I think we fed it to the dog)! Did you like it?
Enjoy your working holiday...
Glad to hear that you are relaxing after some unbelievable experiences. We have also seen fly covered meat in the market in Jerusalem. Had a bad experience with a loo in Moscow ! just had Lucas over night and we are exhausted! Sonia's baby should arrive tomorrow.
Love Norma and Colinxx.
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