Happy Thanksgiving

It is a bit bizarre being in a country where everything is open and turkeys are still available on Thanksgiving day. We, however, will not be cooking a turkey. Our microwave size oven can barely hold a chicken, let alone a full-fledged turkey. But in patriotic spirit, we are still having a big buffet style family dinner with our housemates and some close friends. So far the menu includes chicken and veggies (max), sweet mashed potatoes with marshmellows (me) and regular mash potatoes for max (also me), either zuccini bread or carrot cake, a pie, and spinach. There may also be some more traditional Tanzanian pieces including chapati...

A large market run is in order for later today, but currently we are still "on the clock". With only two days left of work to go and a boss who has never heard of Thanksgiving, it is fair to say that we still have to work for a couple hours this morning. Our volunteer position has been a big success and we have paved the way for future volunteers (Max is currently working on an idealist.org post).

In other news, this week has been rather quiet. It took us around 5 days to recover from the mountain. Our muscles were fine by day 2, but our colds lingered. Now, our attention is focusing on my mother's upcoming visit (this monday!) that will coincide with a 5 day safari trip to Lake Manyara, the Serengetti, and Ngorogoro Crater. After that we will officially be done with Moshi...but we still have over a week before that happens!

Anyways, we are off. Hope you all enjoy your turkey (or tofu-turkey), afternoon of football or soccer, and family.

love,
zahra and max