Bado Nipo Nipo

(It means, “I’m still here”… sort of)

So here’s the rest of the entries to catch you up to the present, in a manner of speaking. In another manner of speaking, the present is the hare the tortoise can never catch up to. Pause. English English speakers pronounce tortoise oddly.

Highlights of January: New Years Day atop a mountain in beautiful Lushoto. Zanzibar/Stonetown. Whale sharks at Mafia Island. MSC(?) I should probably add that for completeness. School officially started so students begin returning, allowing me to finally have neighbours again (I live next to the boys’ dormitories). VAC? Also there for completeness. Going home after weeks of travel and enjoying the use of my kitchen once more. Returning to Mpwapwa to find it green.

Highlights of February: Chinese New Years passing without me even realising it. Bovine bowling by bus, aka the bus trip from hell. Parents’ visit. Subsequent trip to Lake Manyara National Park, Serengetti National Park, and Ngorongoro Crater National Park. Animals. Arusha/Kilimanjaro regions, although I wish we could’ve stayed longer. Hot showers. Parents’ visit of my site. That bomb in Dar and the ensuing panic it caused. Taking pictures and being in tourist mode, but not really because I still had to speak Kis.Getting a bit homesick after parents left, since they reminded me of what I’m missing out on; falling into a funk/rut as a result.

Highlights of March: Lack of students, again. The funk continues. BTP assessment. Missing awesome basketball games. Embracing the funk. Goodbyes. Death of a modem. Being so isolated as a result that my news source becomes the PC (and ttc) rumor mill…And finding out international news via friends’ facebook statuses. Like the Japanese nuclear thing. And Libya (WTF?!). Possible site change?

April: Bado.