Friday, November 23, 2007

Going to Mbeya


Mbeya, where I will eat loads of ndizi (bananas) I'm told. It is a new site, so I get to move myself in and customize the set up. Excellent, can't wait to get started on my garden. I'm being installed during the rainy season too, which is the right time to plant fruit trees and other crops. My site is not too far from the norther tip of Lake Nyasa (others call it L Malawi) which is supposedly home to the most beautiful beach in Tanzania's mainland, Mtema. Everything is looking excellent, I'm very pleased to be going to the Southern highlands, although I'm told it rains 10 months out of the year. The cooler weather up there will calm my sweat apparatus some, and I may even miss the climate of Morogoro some.

Not very sure what to expect at an all girls boarding school. Some of my peers have been speculating that I've been placed at the site that was intended for a 62 year old woman who left the program before finishing training. She was an IT/computer teacher and it may be related to the fact that the school I'm going to just received a donation of 20 computers. Looks like I'll be brushing up on my techno babble.

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