Today we are moving to our communities, me to Kamachumu and Frank to Karagwe. Both are within the Kagera region of North West Tanzania (if you fancy checking them out on google maps).
I will meet my host family for the first time today and see my new home home also! I found out that night that my hist Mum (mama) is called Nieema and my host Dad (baba) is called Micky Daddy. There are both in their 50/60's. I'm a little bit nervous if I'm honest as although I have tried not to have any expectations or let my imagination get too carried away with itself, I have failed miserably, and have already built a picture in my head of what's its going to be like and I'm sure I'll be way off. Anyway it's still exciting as with everything since we've arrived it's all just something new everyday.
At least I don't have to get on any more planes! I reckon all these plane journeys were just VSO's way of making sure we don't quit, as I can tell you now it would have to get REALLY bad out here for me to even consider getting on another plane any time soon, if it came to it i think I'd rather travel by land! Ha!
Managed to find a place to watch the match last night, and with Frank being an Arsenal supporter it made the win all the more satisfying. Not sure how I'm going to get on in community for watching the games though as Aive really hates football so we'll have to see if we can reach a compromise.
It's much cooler here in Bukoba than it was in Dar and today it's raining. Nothing compared to weather you're all probably having back in the UK though. Here at the moment the rain is just a light patter with the occasional rumble of the type of thunder which you only get in tropical places. I'm actually glad it's cooled down as I'm not good with heat but on the other hand it is much easier to take a freezing cold bucket shower when the weather is hot!
Our first volunteers will be arriving on Friday (16th)! That's going to come around sooo fast..... We're going to spend 3 days in our communities from today then travel back to Bukoba to start preparation for their arrival. I'm a little disappointed as our boss has decided that this time Frank will go to the airport to collect the volunteers and I'll go next time. I'm a little sad about it as that's one part if the job I was really looking forward to, however on the plus side it means I get out of having to endure the 10 hour bus ride so every cloud and all that. Mine and Franks groups are going to be placed in two different hotels and me and Aive will do our training for our volunteers and Frank and Eve the same for theirs. Frank and his lot are going to be staying at a 'dry' catholic hotel (where we are now) me and Aive are somewhere 'up the hill' at another hotel which apparently serves alcohol so could get interesting as already I'm envisaging a mass migration of the Karagwe volunteers to our hotel in search of the 'watering hole'! Watch this space.
As I'm writing the rain has just started to really come down, it sounds really nice though as all the building have metal roofs. Time to get me waterproofs out me thinks........!
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