walking tour…

14th October 2016

Today is a national holiday in Tanzania – a celebration of the first president of the country after independence. Therefore, no project work and instead an opportunity to scope out the local area through a walking tour this morning.

We learnt about a variety of medicinal / useful plants – some used to cure malaria and illness in cows, some used to make rope and ladies wigs – apparently 70% of women here use wigs if they want to have long hair – and some to use for making toothpaste and using as a tooth brush!

We also tried to play the local drums – can say with certainty that I am not a natural!!

I came away with a lot of wonderful photos, which I still have to work out how to get from my camera onto my iPad – as well as a red face, a flower for my hair and dirty, dirty feet!!

For the rest of today I’ll be doing lesson plan prep for next week – was supposed to have been done yesterday but I was a little slow – especially as I am planning a brand new course for us to teach after the first community class for those people who want to learn about career planning, writing CVs and cover letters etc. Am so pleased that I can contribute with something new.

And tonight we’re heading into Moshi town centre for a bit of shopping, exploring and dinner.

The weekend is also full of great plans – more about that later…