Habari za mchana (jioni)

JAMBO Family and Friends!

It has been another pleasant day here in the lovely Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Today we taught to our students after the looooong, relaxing weekend. Jumatatu (Mm-uh-tah-tu), as we tell as our students (I'ts Monday...). Still, the students were all WICKED eager ("Teacher!") to learn more English. They continue to amaze us being completely awesome and more than welcoming. As we get down to the nitty gritty and complete their autobiographies, we learn more about their stories each day. In KK's class (among many others!), they make her read the KiSwahili word for EVERYTHING!!! they do (they think us mzgungus are funny!) :) Before lunch, the multimedia kids were so nice and rapped for us (oh! and one boy was wearing a heavy winter jacket because it was "cold" today). After class, PJ learned a new way to play checkers. It was inevitable that he got totally beat because they did a gazillion jumping moves. We also played a variety of sports with them, from kicking a soccerball, to sprinting (guess who?), to volleyball. Some of us kept playing with the Dogodogo children (still ADORABLE!!! and they even like learning not only English - which they know pretty well - but French and Spanish).
So, that's just the conundrum of a normal day as we now just chill until Mass and dinner...

Hope all is well and the weather is better!
LOVE,
KK, Rachael, and the whole Africa Mission '09 family

P.S. Thanks for the support :)