New Years Eve my friend Jodie can to stay and we drank Zanzi (which is the TZ version of Baileys and very delicious), it was really nice not to have to experience the stress of trying to get tickets to a club, not to have to queue for hours in the freezing cold and not to have to experience the awful carnage of trying to fight to find a taxi home! We decided not to go to the Philippine party as it was far to much hassle to try to arrange transport. Our volunteers left it to thelast minute to decide that they wanted to do something and at 7.30pm New Year's Eve me and Aive were left to try to arrange transport for them so that they could all have a late curfew and all go to one volunteers house to have a party together. Seems they had a really good time though which is good.
After bringing in the new year at midnight TZ time me and Jodie challenges ourself a to stay awake till 3am so as to celebrate midnight UK time also.
On New Year's Day I paid for a cook to prepare lunch and dinner for the whole family and our helpers so that they could all relax a little and take the day off. Me Jodie, my counterpart Aive and 2 of my other friends (Clare and Sjored) also came and we all sat and took Pilau rice, meat and all the usual food (in rather larger than usual quantities). My host brother is also here from Dar and joined us in the New Years celebrations. After dinner we all watched Ice Age 4 on the big telly in the living room and it was really good fun seeing and hearing them all laughing every time one of the characters did something funny. The highlight was hearing them saying Pole Tembo (sorry elephant) each time something bad happened to the Wooly mammoth in the film!
Later in the day the youngsters (me Aive my host brother and my friends) came to Kamachumu inn to have beers. It was really funny as my host brother (who's on his 30s) asked me to promise not to tell on him to his parents that he was drinking beers, I agreed on the condition that he didn't tell on me for eating meat outside the home (as I've stopped eating meat at home as they serve every part of the animal including the internal organs and I just can't bring myself to eat it anymore). He agreed and then we were both happy.
I wore my new clothes which very much pleased my host mummy but I drew the line when they asked me to dance for everyone!
The material I chose for my clothes:
African style head wrap:
My outfit:
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