A hospital, a market, a stick fight, a Tailor and a visit from a VIP.....

Today has been an interesting day.... Unfortunately one of the UK vols is very poorly and needed to be checked out at the hospital. Fortunately the doctor has advised it is just a form of food poisoning and hopefully she'll be okay in a few days. I feel very sorry for her though and a bit at a loss as to what I can do. I went to visit her last night though and took her my popple (pic below) which I have had since I was really young and think that might of helped a little:

POPPLE-

I've also managed to do some shopping today and bought material from the market which my host mum took with me to the tailor to have an outfit (trousers and top) made from..... The material and tailoring in total has cost around £20 which I think is a bargain.... Will upload pics Weds when I collect it!

My family have a habit of whacking the cat with a stick when it mithers for food and today I took the plunge and challenged them not to hit the cat anymore..... This then turned into a conversation between me, my host Mum and host Dad which subsequently led to (a jokey) stick fight between the 3 of us..... Was slightly surreal (and of course there is a more serious under tone to this, which is that it's not only animals who are caned out here for bad behaviour) but that aside the stick flight was hilarious and very out of the ordinary for sure.

MIKKI DADDY AND HIS STICK:

Tomorrow our program manager from Dar es Salaam and a member of staff from VSO uk are going to visit, this has meant that at the last minute (8.30pm today) I was set the task to contact all volunteers to arrange for everyone to meet at 12 tomorrow.... Very last minute but now I can see why organisational skills, resilience and being completely out of your mind to want to take on this challenge,  were all included in the job description!!!