Nane Nane

Today is a bank holiday, nane nane, which comes a bit too soon as the children only started back to school on Monday. Joshua and Bethany both have new teachers and seem to be very happy with them and Caleb started Nursery on Monday too.
He seems to love it and in some ways it is not much different from playing at home on the compound because the nursery is full of MAF kids, including Elizabeth and Rueben our 3 year old neighbours on either side. In the morning Caleb plays with them at school and in the afternoon on the compound. I now have 3 free mornings, a complete luxury after almost 7 years of full time child care.

This week there is a big agricultural fair in Dodoma. It only comes here every 3 years so this is the first time we have seen it. Bethany's teacher went on Tuesday and enjoyed it so much decided to organise a class trip on Thursday. I love the way teacher's organise trips here. They basically decide to go and go. They did inform the parents but there was no other hastle involved. Anyway I drove the MAF minibus and we took a few cars. We saw a lion, a leopard, Hyenas, snakes and scorpions. All very exciting for small children and for the Tanzanians many of whom do not have the luxury of going on safari like we do.

Also this week I went to visit the street boys project in town. I just like to check up on these things when I can. All the food was already cooked and I helped serve it all out. They seemed to have a good system and ticked off the names of all the boys as they arrived. It is very nice to see the project working so well and the money being used properly.

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