This semester I am auditing ‘Literary Theory and Development of Kiswahili Literature’ in Swahili! The main purpose is to push my Swahili forward, especially my listening comprehension over longer periods, but I’m also hoping it will give me more of a connection with students on campus. So far there’s only […]
Several months ago I wrote a very excited post on Facebook about how Dodoma now has a gym. However, it’s quite expensive (with no reduction for membership) and the classes weren’t at a great time for me. I went along to one but it wasn’t a very good experience – […]
We’ve done a fair bit of travelling in the last few months which has inevitably meant seeing lots of police. We had some early not so good encounters with police in our first few months in Tanzania so we are generally pretty nervous about being pulled over by them. However, […]
A couple of months ago, Mama Velo, our normal house mama, starting sending her daughter Esta instead of coming herself. We heard that Mama Velo was sick but then we heard that she was better, and yet, she had not returned. Why not? One of the things we learned in […]
We are currently in Arusha on our first holiday since we arrived in Tanzania so this will be the last post for a couple of weeks. We chose Arusha because we were told it’s more western than Dodoma – being the gateway to the Serengeti, it gets a lot of […]
So you’re driving along a highway in Tanzania. The car or truck in front of you has its right blinker on. What does it mean? Possible messages include: 1. I am about to overtake the car(s) in front of me. 2. You should overtake me (and possibly the cars in […]
The other night Arthur said to me, ‘I like the smell of your hair.’ And I was like, ‘What? Almost 8 years being married to me and this is the first time you’ve said something like that!’ But my hair smells different now to what it did a year ago. […]
Meet Jesus at uni 