Village Tour

Believe it or not, I have several stories written about our life here. Stories about our discipline struggles, about the shock we received after observing the school our kids are attending, and about how incredibly different people are here. But, they are way too long. For now I am just sharing a few photos to serve as a “Tour of our Village.” (Please see the SnapFish link at the right side of the page.)

This a view of a typical ‘shamba’ or dwelling for a family lucky enough to have a plot of land for growing food. There are several small buildings, one for sleeping, one for cooking, and one for the toilet; everything else is done outside. Looks pretty shabby, but they have million dollar view of Mt. Meru in the background!

This is the ‘town center’ nearest our house. There is a small store if you want to buy candy, phone cards, or coke in a glass bottle, and a vegetable stand if you want bananas or really bad tomatoes. We pretty much have to drive into Arusha (1hour by taxi) in order to get food; but we come home with a car full of mango, pineapple, papaya, watermelon, etc.

This is Vivi. We keep their heads shaved because they all have ring worm. Ned was the barber and was playing around with her hair….the clippers ran out of battery at this point. Poor girl cried and cried but we thought it was pretty funny because she is such a little turkey most of the time.