News from East Africa

We finished our final language test!! Everyone passed and we found out our village site for the next 2 years!! We will be in the northern part of Tanzania, about 6 hours from Arusha, really close to many national parks :) !!! Just a small plus.


Such a small world.... the volunteer before us, serving at the very same site as us, was from Las Cruces!



Near the top of the mountain was a natural spring. Many of the villagers who have cattle, take them to water up here. It's about a 6 mile round trip to the watering hole so the villagers use donkeys to haul up to 40 gallons of water back to village for drinking, washing etc.

This is a typical peace corp home. This shows the courtyard with passion fruit vines growing overhead. If you enter to the right you would see the kitchen, living room and bedroom. In the background are tomatoe vines and a papai tree in the foreground.

Jason and Becky, fellow volunteers who have served in country for the last year, took us on a tour of their village as well as a hike through the mountain range that surrounded the valley. The Baobob trees were enormous, acacia trees offered the much needed shade and these are strange looking cactus/trees which have poisonous sap and cause burns and or blindness. One of the villagers explained the uses of all the plant life as we explored.

This past week has been spent in the Mpwapwa district. We visited current volunteers at their village sites. These are just some of the children who sang, danced and played drums for us each night. The harmony and rythm of these children was simply amazing!

we love you and miss you all!

Dee and Wyatt