Sooo what up hommies? got a week left in this crazy place and then i am back to the states! (i am kinda excited to see all your pretty faces) ANY WHO this past week stayed at my host family for the weekend which i am preparing to do again this weekend. Last weekend we hung out and cooked alot. And on Sunday me and Nikki go to hang out with our Baba at the Multipurpose Bar. We talked and learned Methali za Kiswahili (proverbs).
Unfortunately, after returning Monday for class i got sick! Almost made it the whole time without any problems. Anyway i had to start taking my antibiotics to kick the bug out of my system. I hate taking medicine and especially antibiotics, but i sucked it up and did it.
There has also been alot of work to do this week. The final two weeks of class are rough! We have had two presentations so far and one more to go (the final oral proficiency exam...yikes). The first presentation was over two children's books i read- Pilipili Hoho (The Green Pepper) and Watoto na Zimwi (The Children and the Goblin). They were both pretty awesome books but i have to say Pilipili Hoho was the best. Today me and Cara gave our presentation over our final project - takataka (trash!). We were able to go around Arusha and the villages surrounding it to research the trash services available , or not available, for the people who live here. It was very interesting and we learned alot. For instance, people in the villages do not have trash services like the city so they self regulate their trash by reusing most of it- composting for fertilizer- and/or burning the trash that will not be re-used.
This week after class, on Wednesday, we had a cooking lesson. You were able to pick the station you wanted to work at before hand. I decided to learn how to make chapati from scratch! It was fun and i plan to make it in the states when i go back. Chapati is similar to tortillas, its a flat bread. It's made with white flour, water and vegetable oil- thats it! After making the dough and rolling it out a few different times you fry them in a pan and they are delicious.
Unfortunately there was a station that slaughtered chickens :( When we arrived at our kitchen i saw the chickens, still alive, and i thought maybe i could set them free...This would have pissed alot of people off so instead i just turned my head. It was really troubling to see that people took pleasure out of killing these living beings. People were smiling and laughing and taking pictures. And i thought it even more surprising that they looked at the chickens while they were alive and still were able to eat them after killing them with their own hands- where is the guilt? It really bothered me to see people celebrate the death of harmless, defenseless creatures. I realize that there are some things out of my control and that i am not able to change other people, but seeing these things really got to me.
Sorry to leave this on such a negative note, but i must go. Got to pack and get ready for my last weekend in Usa River, which will consist of a lot of studying because there is a final Monday- ah!
See you all very soon!
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