Things have been crazy here in Arusha!  A couple of weeks ago, our teacher for the now 55 student baby class unexpectedly had a baby.  We had to hire two additional teachers for the middle class and pre-unit, but the baby class was on the loose! Usually Elizabeth would step in and help us, but she has been so ill with Typhoid, Malaria and Tape Worms, that she hasn’t been able to come into school much.  During this time, I was not able to miss a day to go out to the project.  Between the two volunteers and me, we were exhausted every day. 50 babies are hard to control when you don’t speak their language! While I was at the current Hill Crest every day, Isaac was going out to the project.  Also these past couple weeks, Tanesco, the city wide power company, has been changing some things in the power so for about two weeks Arusha has been out of electricity.  Having no phone, computer, camera, etc got pretty stressful but it’s (usually) back now.  Since my last update, the walls have been totally built up!  It’s so exciting to see the progress of the project. The volunteers, Tansa and Julie, came out to the site one day and the three of us lugged concrete around to put the bricks on. I’ve gotten really close with Tansa and Julie and they’ve been amazing volunteers for Hill Crest.  Their time is almost up and I’m already sad to see them go.  We have a great group of workers at the project with a couple of them being from the village we are currently in. I love the support people show here for everyone, especially us Westerners who are here to help. 

I fall more in love with Tanzania every day and I’m so happy with my life here.  How I love, love, love being here.