Saturday, June. 4th, 2011-Sunday, June. 5th, 2011
Hello hello!
This past weekend consisted of little excitement. I am sad to say... life is not always glamorous out here! I mean... I am not ALWAYS spending time with orphans and volunteering at a NGO that empowers marginalized women... and I am most definitely not always being exposed to new cultural differences. It is just starting to feel like my life, my home, my place... Or it did this weekend.
Why we did not do anything of excitement or importance you ask? Opposition in all things! How can there be excitement without boredom? How can I enjoy the culture if I do not dislike it first! haha Okay, that is a joke. Sort of. A bit, at least... For the most part.
If I were to pick the highlight of my weekend, I would definitely say it was Mike's new bathing suit purchase. I helped him pick it out and even fronted him the dough for it! Well worth it!
We did find a new restaurant to eat that. It is in the shape of an ark, no joke! And it has delicious pizza [...hmm this is new]! When we first entered the restaurant, I wondered if they would have enough tables for us. We were a group of fourteen at the time and though the restaurant was empty... the available tables were few. We did manage to get us all around the table though. Up until my pizza arrived I had been feeling quite nauseous and water was not making it any better. Pizza made me feel better, go figure!
After our dinner we walked next door to Shooters Bar or something along those lines and found ourselves a little karaoke machine! Remember the last karaoke we went to where I was mistaken when believing we would BE the party? Well... on this night we really were THE party. After our first song, people starting getting up and leaving. I was not sure if it was because of how good we[by "we" I mean Alex] were singing or if they were honestly just ready to leave. Either way, after eight minutes there we quickly became the majority. It was a pleasant change from being the minority for the last month! I never knew what it felt like to be a constant minority and with such a large gap that seeing another mazungu on the street actually made me want to dance over to them and greet them. That is right, I have fallen victim to this embarrassing display of excitement. Ashamed? Yes. Still excited? Unfortunately.
Moving on... I am happy to say there have been no more random old men displaying themselves in public! Or at least not anywhere I was. However, there is a guy who runs the street that has been talking to us and walking with us for the last two mornings. The other Tanzanians give him some weird looks, most with huge grins. He is polite and so we do not fear bumping into him. We saw our policeman today! He is no long positioned by the bridge, but just past it on the other side of the street. I was happy to see him and I like to think he was happy to see us too!
A contributor to the bland weekend was the departure of Jodi and Andrew early Sunday morning. I miss them already. I called her tonight and pretended I was returning her "missed call" just so I could hear her voice! haha Jest! I actually did think I had missed her call. The time stamp matched up and I had missed a total of four calls. The only thing not matching up was the date and the fact that the four missed calls were from the one number. Oh well! Got to talk and hear about her first day on her safari!
There is not much else to say. Interesting weekend? Meh... it was a weekend.
OOPS!! CANUCKS WON WITH AN OT GOAL BY BURROWS!!! WHO AM I KIDDING! THIS MADE MY WEEKEND!!!!
Gnight!
Hello hello!
This past weekend consisted of little excitement. I am sad to say... life is not always glamorous out here! I mean... I am not ALWAYS spending time with orphans and volunteering at a NGO that empowers marginalized women... and I am most definitely not always being exposed to new cultural differences. It is just starting to feel like my life, my home, my place... Or it did this weekend.
Why we did not do anything of excitement or importance you ask? Opposition in all things! How can there be excitement without boredom? How can I enjoy the culture if I do not dislike it first! haha Okay, that is a joke. Sort of. A bit, at least... For the most part.
If I were to pick the highlight of my weekend, I would definitely say it was Mike's new bathing suit purchase. I helped him pick it out and even fronted him the dough for it! Well worth it!
We did find a new restaurant to eat that. It is in the shape of an ark, no joke! And it has delicious pizza [...hmm this is new]! When we first entered the restaurant, I wondered if they would have enough tables for us. We were a group of fourteen at the time and though the restaurant was empty... the available tables were few. We did manage to get us all around the table though. Up until my pizza arrived I had been feeling quite nauseous and water was not making it any better. Pizza made me feel better, go figure!
After our dinner we walked next door to Shooters Bar or something along those lines and found ourselves a little karaoke machine! Remember the last karaoke we went to where I was mistaken when believing we would BE the party? Well... on this night we really were THE party. After our first song, people starting getting up and leaving. I was not sure if it was because of how good we[by "we" I mean Alex] were singing or if they were honestly just ready to leave. Either way, after eight minutes there we quickly became the majority. It was a pleasant change from being the minority for the last month! I never knew what it felt like to be a constant minority and with such a large gap that seeing another mazungu on the street actually made me want to dance over to them and greet them. That is right, I have fallen victim to this embarrassing display of excitement. Ashamed? Yes. Still excited? Unfortunately.
Moving on... I am happy to say there have been no more random old men displaying themselves in public! Or at least not anywhere I was. However, there is a guy who runs the street that has been talking to us and walking with us for the last two mornings. The other Tanzanians give him some weird looks, most with huge grins. He is polite and so we do not fear bumping into him. We saw our policeman today! He is no long positioned by the bridge, but just past it on the other side of the street. I was happy to see him and I like to think he was happy to see us too!
A contributor to the bland weekend was the departure of Jodi and Andrew early Sunday morning. I miss them already. I called her tonight and pretended I was returning her "missed call" just so I could hear her voice! haha Jest! I actually did think I had missed her call. The time stamp matched up and I had missed a total of four calls. The only thing not matching up was the date and the fact that the four missed calls were from the one number. Oh well! Got to talk and hear about her first day on her safari!
There is not much else to say. Interesting weekend? Meh... it was a weekend.
OOPS!! CANUCKS WON WITH AN OT GOAL BY BURROWS!!! WHO AM I KIDDING! THIS MADE MY WEEKEND!!!!
Gnight!
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