A picture is worth a 1000 words...but i still put captions

here is a picture montage of my trip so far:


















me on our 9 mile waterfall hike. in the mud.


















my two english roses. kate on the left lucy on the right. this was the day we moved into the villages after orientation.














my host family!
kaka (brother) Damas on the left
kaka Dennis (they are twins) in the back with the orange balloon
dada (sister) Mariam with the blue skirt
dada Rehama in the yellow.
The rest are our neighbors kids ( i think, sometimes it is hard to know who belongs to whom)




















my host mama washing clothes. we try to wash our own but she just does them over again anyway so we have kind of stopped trying. she also re-folds any clothes that we fold. we love her so much. probably makes the best chai in all of tanzania also.















this is me rolling out dough to make chapati (tanzanian flat bread/pancake). it is so amazing. we eat it with beans or with choroko (kind of like a lentil).















this is me cooking the chapati on a wood stove inside the house. i got really good at the cooking part so Lucy wouldroll out the dough and i would cook in with oil. we made enough that night for our whole family of 10.