Well I just finished up another week of classes! It was my last week of hardcore Kiswahili, much to my relief. I’ve learned a lot of the language but spending so much time studying it in class compiled with constant attempts at speaking it with people (not to mention the amount of time spent each night doing exercises) really adds up and feels kind of depressing. It really is an absurd amount of time. But it has its benefits, I can pick up and understand various phrases in the conversations I hear now and on the daladala radios. So overall I am thankful for all the time I’ve spent on it.
Last night I learned from Laura Heggs, a past ACM student, and Molly that two girls from the CIE group (another American student group here staying in Dar for a semester) were robbed at knife point on their walk back from dinner. The robbers thankfully only took their money and jewelry. How terrifying! It was definitely dark when it happened and sobering to think that it happened along the same road that I use to walk to all of my meals in the cafeteria. Molly told Bob and I that we would start being asked to accompany people more often since guys are in short supply for this trip and a group with a guy is generally less at risk to get mobbed.
Molly and Laura also took stock of our current situation and determined that most everyone in our group has Scabies. Scabies are basically very little bugs that lay their eggs in your skin, which cause little-red itchy welts. I have them all along my forearms and hands and some on my legs. Molly said that she was going to get us on some lotion medication for it that has proven to be effective at treating them. I’m not at all worried about them because the worst symptom one can have with them is itchiness.
Also, on Tuesday night, my friend Jake Lindstrom started feeling pretty crappy, with flu-like symptoms only worse and went to the hospital. As it turned out he tested positive for the worst kind of Malaria in Africa. The next day was his birthday, so on his last night of being a teenager he was diagnosed with the disease that is the 5th leading cause of death in Africa and he got to celebrate the early morning hours of the next day by violently throwing up for a half an hour. It was really too bad, but glorious nonetheless. He is the second one of our group to get Malarai, after Nikki Yeomans last week.
Tonight we went out to eat again as a large group. We ate at a Malaysian buffet place! It was by far my favorite meal here in Tanzania so far. Cooked noodles with vegetables, spiced steak bits, spiced chicken with potatoes, rice and vegetables, fried vegetables, floured balls of fish, chocolate cake and coconut wraps. I found the coconut wraps to be especially good. Real coconut is super sweet and almost creamy, unlike any of the gross stuff that I have had in the States.
The other morning (Thursday) I got up at 5:30AM to go to the degree tree because I had a skype date with Beth scheduled. I had been looking forward to it all day Wednesday, and I knew she had been, too. So when I spent 2 and a half hours trying and failing to get an Internet connection I felt pretty upset. We were going to have a great, extra-long session starting at 6 and it turned out to be only me struggling to find that connection until my four hour class started at 8:30, which by that time I am sure Beth was already asleep (12:30AM in Iowa). Needless to say I felt pretty angry about it until mid-afternoon. Then my mood got better after taking lots of notes and joking around with my friends. I learned that anger is a great motivator; it made me try harder to stand out during Kiswahili by volunteering more than usual and by making a lot of long sentences. They were good ways to let off steam.
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