28/11/13 Technology malfunction....

I'm not sure how it happened but for the past two days I have been cut off from all technology. My lap top crashed, my mobile couldn't access the Internet and I also lost access to my blog. This has been very distressing and has also cost me a lot of time. Hopefully now my computer is fixed but unfortunately my blog is still in accessible so I'm saving this in my phone in the hope I can upload them once I regain access. Unfortunately some of my most recent post before this one has disappeared. 

Tonight has been really good fun.

I got home around 7pm and I've been sitting in the outside kitchen with mukylie, Dickson and my host mum Niema. We've been exchanging Swahili for English and now my head is baked!!! Information overload for sure! It's been funny though and we've had lots of laughs at all our mispronunciation (especially mine!)

Tomorrow were going to have our first team meeting with the volunteers (these will take place each Friday). We're also going to hold our first Global Citizen Day - this is where 2-4 volunteers (mix of TZ and Uk) organise a half day training for the rest of the volunteer group about any global issue. Tomorrows group are going to focus on Poverty and are planning to run sessions on MDGs (millennium development goals) and relative and absolute poverty (google it if you're not sure of the meaning). They've some games and activities as well so fingers crossed for them it will all go well.

After the meeting and GCD I am going to bring the Gender team to my home as my host mum holds a community women's group from my house every Friday. The gender group are going to meet with them to discuss their ideas for the program and to get feed back and opinions from the local women.

I was hoping to have some time off this weekend but Aive has to leave the community to go to Bukoba to collect money, which means I have to stay in the community. However I've learnt today that I will be attending VSOs annual conference on the 10th Dec which means I'll be travelling to Dar es Salaam and staying there for 3 days. I'm going to ask if I can arrange to take some of my annual leave and stay on after the conference. If its agreed I'm hoping to be able to go to Zanzibar for a few days.... We'll see.....

 Animal update: after two days of failing to get my laptop to even switch on a Gecko pooed on it and then it switched on straight away - very Random!