Primary Students making corn flour for school lunch, ugali

"Hello" from Namiyonga village women

Neighbor girls helping with dishes

Neighbor girls helping with laundry

soursop fruit is now in season in mtwara region

Rashi and his toy, a wire hoop

Primary school students planting tree seeds I got from Peace Corps

Passion fruit is now in season in my vill. Just eat the gooey goodness in the middle.

My house & well that I hope to store all rain water to last me a year until next rainy season. No pumps in vill, all villagers rely on rain water.

Issa and his favorite meal (ugali and dried sardines "dagaa") also the TZ main diet.I eat dagaa when given to me, but never cook it myself.

Villagers loving the photos you all have sent me.Ester is on the left and Mama Ester holding pics..my two favorite people.

The villagers love looking at the photos I brought & all of the pics you guys send me!

Gotta love mango season! I would just go outside my house and pick up buckets full of mangoes on the ground.

neighbor Baba Bush (actually named Bushiri but likes to be called Bush after President) braiding long grass to make my rope bed

my house in namiyonga

Primary students pounding corn to make corn flour for ugali..a thick corn porridge, their only school meal

school kids helping lay out sand for cement floor in my courtyard

pic outside my house of primary school students start each day by singing national anthem

my neighbors

Drumming at soccer game

There's soccer games almost every night in Namiyonga. And yes, those are chickens that are no distraction to the players.

Invasion of flying termites!Took pic next morning of the wings they shed.These were small termites, the bigger ones come later & people eat those.

Issa...thinking he's helping with dishes

Namiyonga villager sells dried fish every evening

View of main road into Namiyonga

Since it's the rainy season, i get to see a lot of rainbows

Village Exec Officer's house (in green shirt) and his 4 wives & family

New Year's celebration (woman on left has baby powder on her, people pour it on each other). 2 women on outside r wives of my VEO, Weo Agnes in the m

4 day celebration for New Years.Groups of people would run by house dancin, singing, drumming, and throwing baby powder.

Namiyonga Tribal/muslim women performing ritual to get rid of devil in woman. Women participating had a good time, nothing scary or too serious.

ritual performed by Namiyonga Muslim women to get devil out of a woman.Lots of dancing & singing, & eating raw meat at one point but nothing too crazy

The road i biked to get to mirinda's. Easy going down, not so fun going up plateau. So green & no snow, didn't feel like cmas.

Climbed down & back up newala plateau (total 5 hrs) to get to Mirinda's village for Cmas.In far distance, u can see river that's border of mozambique

Christmas in TZ! Laura, Mirinda, TZ student, me, jb

Laundry day in Namiyonga!

My Namiyonga neighbor kids love playing with Issa (my cat) ..

My cutest lil' neighbor kid, Rashi, eating a mango

Why my mosquito net is starting to sag...

My district supervisor, me, and ward executive officer Agnes

Khanga party! (me, jen, mary, carrie)

Bill getting a little carried away in my khanga (carrie, jen, bill, mary, me)

Jen & I picked out the fabric and had local "fundi" sew our dresses

Mary chopping my hair. No point in having long hair, it just stays in a ponytail b/c it's hot! Most TZ women shave their hair.

climbed up the mountain for mass (morogoro)

Celebrating megan's birthday during training

Local butcher in Morogoro.Just have to point at the piece of meat you want.

My language training group..still staying strong! Only two are left intact, and we're bettin' our group will finish out the 2 yrs service.

Mary showing the line graphs of PCVs' high & low points of our 6 months of service

Beautiful mountains of Morogoro (where training held for 1.5 weeks)

Starting to see more of these now that it's the rainy season

view from city morogoro

IST Morogoro: we managed to find a "wazungu place" (catered for tourists) w/ cmas tree, wine, & pizza! (me, jen, jb)

IST Morogoro: training for health & environment volunteers

The cabin in morogoro i shared with 5 volunteers during In Service Training (IST)

Yumm..."Nanasi" pineapple! (mary, me, Jen)