Wednesday 5 October 2011

Jambo! - update from GapBreak volunteers in Tanzania

Jambo! Jambo! Habari? Four weeks in Tanga, Tanzania and we're fluent in speaking Swahili (if you can call asking someone's name and age a fluent conversation). We are taught Swahili two hours every week by one of our team leaders. The beginning of this week was quite sad, due to the fact we had to say goodbye to three English girls. The girls had stayed at Camp Tanzania with us for one month and as a result, many close friendships were made. After saying goodbye to them, the rest of Sunday was spent relaxing in order to prepare for the big week ahead. Monday-Thursday we spent our time at the primary school scraping the old paint off the outside walls. Although it was at times tiresome and repetitive, it was satisfying to finally have it done. Now we can begin to brighten and paint the school walls! We were rewarded for all our hard work on Thursday night when we watched the Sound of Music. The whole of Tanzania could probably hear us singing our lungs out!

We woke up on Friday morning to rain so it was decided we would simply have work off for that day and have an early start to the weekend (not a hard decision). Today, (Saturday 01/10/2011) we are welcoming four new people into our camp! Two are from England and the other two are from the Netherlands. It will be nice to add some cultural diversity to the group as currently there are 9 Australians out of the 11 here. We are all very excited to meet the newbies, and of course we have a few friendly pranks to play, to initiate them into our Camp Tanzanian Group!

Signing off! Kwaheri

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