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.
we love you and miss you all!
Dee and Wyatt
5 comments:
That is awsome can you give us GPS coordinates? Dee you look very good and happy in your picture that makes me feel great. Love you and miss you both. Wyatt i love the Bar T Bar hat, it goes well with all you outfits. You guys are amazing have fun.
love berto
Awesome pictures...lets us see what you are, it is almost impossible to perceive without pictures.
What is the village name you will be at? This is exciting as this is the area you wanted and the affiliation with Heifer International. :)
Love and miss you both
God Bless
The last anonymous was from me, your mom!!!!
Hello Dee Dee and Wyatt,
Sounds great, will be good to make a place for yourself. I will be anxious to hear about what you will be doing--projects, etc. Sounds like you will be in a beautiful part of the country.
Take care, love ya's and miss you
Dad
Wow! So proud of you guys! You have only been there such a short time and it already looks like you are doing amazing work! DeeDee I love that first pic of you, your outfit looks great! Love you guys!
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