Getting Settled In

Moshi is much more managable than Dar. Within a couple of days, we have almost ventured to every corner of the city and already marked out some potential favorite spots: A western style coffee shop complete with bagels, a bakery, a handful of grocery stores, and several samosa shops (though they dont compare to KT shop, dad).

We have set up a couple meetings with different NGOs for Friday and Monday. They are involved in various causes from agriculture to Kili porters' rights. But in the mean time, we have just been hanging around the house, playing cards by candle light (the power went out again last night), cooking (well Max has; I've been washing the dishes), playing frisbee in our yard, and studying Swahili. We have tripled our amount of flashcards since we got here.

The thing that will take the most getting used to (we predict), are the chorus of noises at night including the call and response of police cadets running at 4am, roosters crowing at sunrise, and our dogs making pathetic whimpering noises at all hours. Oh, and then there are the lizards in the roof that sound like they are trying to burrow through our ceiling.

We are getting antsy to start working and are looking forward to our first interview tomorrow.

Cheers,
Z and M

PS - We have taken twitter off the blog. We could not get our international phone number to register. : (

PPS - If this internet connection likes us, we will try and add some new photos.