Happy Early Thanksgiving everyone! Enjoy family, food, and football (all the american joys of Thanksgiving! Especially the Turkey!
Well, I will become an official PCV next Wednesday! I am super excited! I am excited to move into my own space and have everything be mine and not feel like a guest. My host family is great, but you never truly feel at home home! Also, I can wait to make whatever I want when I want. With the Christmas season coming, you can bet that I will be making or trying to make cut out cookies and buttercream frosting. I may even post pictures! Sorry, but pictures may take a while to get. I promise hopefully by New Years! I have a lot of pictures to post... safari, new house and hopefully delicious cookies!
Also, since last post was before or near Halloween, I hope everyone had a safe and great Halloween! Really the only exciting thing that I am now about to finish as I become an offical PCV is PC Training. I had my final Language Proficiency Interview and hopefully got a Intermediate-Mid. I apologize for those who don't know what this means but it is way more complicated than I have time for. But hopefully I made the cut! Boy though, am I excited to be done! I can't wait to just sit for one day and do absolutely nothing. I will be able to do whatever I want when I want... to a certain degree. I could sleep in later than 6 am if I want. Got to go only 2 minutes to spare!
Megan
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Another Post.
So today was the site announcement. It was so cool. They had African dancers and drum players. I even got to try the bass drum. Well, it was quite the anticipation because mine was called near the end. I will be teaching math and probably chemistry at a boarding/day school for boys and girls. I am super excited.
What have I been up to lately? Well, I finished my student teaching internship this week and our school threw us a little going away party that was nice. A couple of weekends ago, I went on my first safari. I went to McKumi National Park. I got to see elephants, giraffes, warthogs, monkeys, baboons, zebras, wilda beasts, water buffalo, a lot of really pretty birds, a hippo, and even lions. The lions we saw were eating their dinner. I even got a picture of the lion with the carcass. The pictures will come eventually, but it might be a little bit. It was nice to relax for a bit. Normally, I am going going 6 days a week from like 6 until 5 pm. So the days can be long.
Life in Tanzania is great. I really like it. The food is excellent. I just have to learn to eat carb, but guess what..... Tanzania has peanuts AND PEANUT BUTTER!!! I know. How amazing is that! And the peanut butter is appropriately priced. I eat a lot of rice and bean with combinations of tomatos, green pepper, onion, garlic, and meat or coconut milk and peas (FYI.. Christina you would totally be fine in visiting). Most of the stuff I eat is vegetarian or can easily be made vegetarian. I am not the biggest meat eater here either. It tends to be a bit chewy, but what I did learn is I love sardines or small fish!!! Here we call them dagaa. I like them fried best. Also, a lot of the food here is fried, but it is delicious. They even have an omelet with fries in it. It is delicious, but I cannot eat too many. While the food is amazing here, I sometimes have dicussions with fellow PCTs about food that we crave. This is probably one of my favorite discussions in fact. What I would not do for a good milkshake!!!! MMMM! But, don't worry, I have chai time. I get a daily tea break at about 10 am every day. It was great. Also, one more thing I am missing is chocolate which may sound weird to the people that have known me since I was little but I would love a good dark chocolate candy right now. I savor things like this like nothing else. And since I know it is Halloween, I sure am missing Reese's PB shaped pumpkin or bat candies!
Anyway, I am becoming pro Tanzanian kitchen cooker. I hope to become pro baker once I get to site. I am even going to try an continue the Christmas tradition of making cut out cookies with frosting in December. I will let you know how this goes. Like I said before. I will post picture once I get to site.
What have I been up to lately? Well, I finished my student teaching internship this week and our school threw us a little going away party that was nice. A couple of weekends ago, I went on my first safari. I went to McKumi National Park. I got to see elephants, giraffes, warthogs, monkeys, baboons, zebras, wilda beasts, water buffalo, a lot of really pretty birds, a hippo, and even lions. The lions we saw were eating their dinner. I even got a picture of the lion with the carcass. The pictures will come eventually, but it might be a little bit. It was nice to relax for a bit. Normally, I am going going 6 days a week from like 6 until 5 pm. So the days can be long.
Life in Tanzania is great. I really like it. The food is excellent. I just have to learn to eat carb, but guess what..... Tanzania has peanuts AND PEANUT BUTTER!!! I know. How amazing is that! And the peanut butter is appropriately priced. I eat a lot of rice and bean with combinations of tomatos, green pepper, onion, garlic, and meat or coconut milk and peas (FYI.. Christina you would totally be fine in visiting). Most of the stuff I eat is vegetarian or can easily be made vegetarian. I am not the biggest meat eater here either. It tends to be a bit chewy, but what I did learn is I love sardines or small fish!!! Here we call them dagaa. I like them fried best. Also, a lot of the food here is fried, but it is delicious. They even have an omelet with fries in it. It is delicious, but I cannot eat too many. While the food is amazing here, I sometimes have dicussions with fellow PCTs about food that we crave. This is probably one of my favorite discussions in fact. What I would not do for a good milkshake!!!! MMMM! But, don't worry, I have chai time. I get a daily tea break at about 10 am every day. It was great. Also, one more thing I am missing is chocolate which may sound weird to the people that have known me since I was little but I would love a good dark chocolate candy right now. I savor things like this like nothing else. And since I know it is Halloween, I sure am missing Reese's PB shaped pumpkin or bat candies!
Anyway, I am becoming pro Tanzanian kitchen cooker. I hope to become pro baker once I get to site. I am even going to try an continue the Christmas tradition of making cut out cookies with frosting in December. I will let you know how this goes. Like I said before. I will post picture once I get to site.
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