Photos!

I love help desks :) Computer is being slow so only a few. I'm trying to email some too and it hates me so I might just try again next week on the other computer.





So this photo is our July 28 group, minus Sam who was a bit sick. Back row is Tom, Benjamin (our teacher), Rachel, Roisin, Charlene, Lianne. Front is Rachel, Lydia, Mama Zo (our other teacher), me and Jennifer. The others went to the new site while Jen and I are in Mvae. We're at the dinner the day before we went to our villages. We all got a bit dressed up since we new it was really our last chance! I vaguely remember those days when I had clean fingernails and no permanent orange sheen. Every day I get back from work with my wash off tan!

Ah the locals take great pictures! This is in a nearby village which has a Sunday market. The Tanzanian man is just a random who wanted a photo, lots of them do! But I like the picture anyway. That's Jane, Anne Marie, Mike and me. The building behind is the kioski. All the buildings are just mud bricks with mud cement but they do seem to stay up quite well!

This is our building, we're about to plaster the top there, but it needs wetting to stick so that is me up on that OSH happy scaffolding! Basically they are tree trunks stuck into a triangle of wood wedged into the ground against the wall and then with planks on top to stand on. Exactly where I'm standing the support is about ten centimetres lower than the others so it was a bit bouncy! Plastering is fun but the fundis (the proffesional builders) did the top because they're a lot faster! That's Paulo, he's 22 and my first marriage proposal. I didn't get too excited since he proposed to Jen first and me when she said no!




Mike shooting his arrow. Cooking tent in the middle with Jane watching him shoot. You can see behind the tree is the cooking area, where Anne Marie will be sitting in about twenty minutes! If you looking closely you can actually see the arrow in mid-air! Very clever photography.

Night time entertainment. I lose most of the time, but I beat Jen in this case. My most embarrassing loss? The fifteen year old boy, Issa, who hangs out at the site. He wants to be a fundi and he's really good! He spends a fair bit of time at our camp, he's learning english and he gets on well with Mike, who I think is grateful for the male company! Anyway, Issa looks twelve and is tiny, and he beat me in less than a minute. Still... I beat Jen so I'm not the weakest in camp :)









Right, that's all for now folks. It's taken me an hour and a half to manage this so enjoy! See you the same time next week.