Well our homestays ended yesterday. It was sad to leave my family, but I’ll be back to visit them in May. My homestay parents even had me call my (real) parents so they could talk to them and personally invite them to stay at their house if my parents ever visit Tanzania.

This last week has been rough. It was midterm week…and probably the most stressful week in the last six months I’ve been in Tanzania. But that’s really not saying much, compared to the stress of finals/midterm weeks at American universities. Most of the stress came for the lack of electricity, which made it hard to write our five papers. The electricity shuts down for entire days at a time…it’s usually only on every other day. I can’t say I have much other news from last week.
familia yangu

Mama na dada na kaka at the homestay party. All of the mamas had outfits sewn for their homestay children.


Now we are heading over to a rainforest near the coast and we’ll be studying there for a week!