June

We celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary last week so took a couple of days off and headed to the Dar Es Salaam and surroundings, it was a much needed break and we had a great time.

June has been a challenging month, the ‘experts’ all say that 6 months is a notoriously bad time in the ‘transition curves’ and that has been true for us, we felt as though we hit the bottom, frustrations with language learning, culture, team, no power, no water and just living here where nothing really works as it should (well that’s what we think anyway) but we are maybe on the way up again, that or we are looking forward to a some precious time with our families in the coming months. I have been trying to organise some ladies get togethers with some of the other workers out here, we took advantage of a very experienced worker (left of photo) and really enjoyed 3 sessions together of training and encouragement. I have also had the chance to meet some more of the local ladies and practice my Swahili! Alex is battling with the motivation needed for language learning but enjoys the odd chance to go spear fishing and snorkelling – hard life isn’t it.

We have 2 new additions in the form of Guinea Foul, I have named them Spotty and Dotty but Alex is not convinced yet. They are so beautiful, the challenge has been making sure Pumba doesn’t eat them, after a few moments of trying to get him to be calm around them, we realise our foolishness and have had to resort to total separation of the animals!!!