Intensive Kiswahili Session 1

I'm writing this at an internet cafe close to the facility we stay and take Kiswahili lessons, hence I've got limited amount of time.

Briefly, here're the updates;

1. we moved out of our somewhat luxurious volunteer dormitory and checked into the Salvation Army Territorial headquater two days ago where we stay for four weeks and take intensive Kiswahili lessons and leanrn more about the Tanzanian culture. In my class (which is internediate because I've done the two months of fundamental Kiswahili at the training in Japan), we started right into the free-way conversations on various specific topics, and slowly though, I'm getting to be in a good shape.

2. For the third week of our program, each of us will make a trip to our respective volunteer sites and talk to the colleagues or supervisors(we call them counterparts) to decide specifically what each of us will be doing.

3. This part of the city has relatively calm and relaxed atomosphere compared to where the dormitory was. People seem more friendly and relaxed. Even though we're still in Dar es Salaam, we are starting to witness the Tanzanian culture of emhpasis on greeting and talking with the strangers inside the facility/on the road which apparently is more prominent in other parts of the country.

Please be patient about the photos. I've taken a few and will upload them when I have a chance to, but in general it takes ages to upload photos with the current internet situation here.