Year 2; Day 1...

It's hard to believe that's it's only a year since we first set foot in Tanzania - and it's hard to believe it's been a year already.

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Then it was all fresh and new, and strange. Now it's just 'normal'. We're used to the fact that it's never cold; that we hardly ever go out after dark; that we sleep under mosquito nets; that I cycle to work and come home for lunch; that we go swimming in an unheated outdoor pool every day of the week (at least some of us :)).

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I can still remember when we first arrived, walking down the runway and being met by all the MAF people. What I can't do is match them up with the people that we know so well now - even though I know they are the same people. It's the same with everything really; I can remember all my first impressions, but they are totally divorced from my current reality. Weird.

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Still not quite used to the inability to obtain just about anything except the bare essentials of life. At least, it doesn't feel like we're used to it - but I bet when we go back to the UK in June, it will totally freak us out how easy it is to get everything.

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I have just calculated (I can't help it, sorry) that by 13 September this year, Caleb will have lived half his life in Tanzania. That is also extremely weird. Having said that, it's not hard to believe when you look at him - he's a bit of an African wild child, and brown as a berry. But we're glad - I think it's the kind of childhood that every parent (or lots, at least; or maybe just some) dreams of for their children.

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To get a bit spiritual for a moment, we're glad that God has given us the opportunity to come here, and pray that what we are doing is actually making a difference. I guess everyone has moments of doubt - but I guess at the end of the day that's God's problem - he stuck us here :)

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[I wish those emoticons worked properly]

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Anyway, happy our anniversary everybody. Have a good evening, we're going to sleep now.