This post is simply a collection of photos of everyday life here in Musoma. Enjoy!
A cloud of sami (lake flies) over Lake Victoria. I was happy to watch them move in a direction other than towards our house. They're tiny and get into everything, then die and stink up a storm.
Jack and Tessa enjoying local yogurt and straws from a care package. Jack's got a nice yellow shiner on the center of his forehead from a fall earlier. The bruise lasted an entire week.
Our vegetable garden, which now hosts sweet corn, lettuce, bell peppers, butternut squash, and real American sweet potatoes! All those things are thrilling! Planting a vegetable garden was one of my three goals for 2nd term, so it's exciting to be reaping the rewards on our plates.
ONE day's take of passion fruit, guavas, and oranges from our garden. The passion fruit makes great juice, but the oranges were inedible - which we sadly discovered after making orange juice.
Jack and Tessa at the local train station restaurant (our house). Their waiter was Alphonse (me). The menu was red juice, apple slices, avocado chunks, sausage sticks (leftover egg/sausage casserole), and noodles (also leftovers). The reward for eating it all was the Ice Cream Supreme Especial (vanilla ice cream, cocoa powder, 1/2 a cookie, and an ancient maraschino cherry). Bon Apetite!
The two chameleons we found walking through the grass in the backyard. We later put them in separate basins (the kids' bathtubs and our laundry tubs) for the day so we could play with them (i.e. worry them just enough to make them change colors and get stripes). After Dusty came home and saw them, we released them into our garden.
One of the chameleons silently yelling at me. Chameleons do bite, and Tanzanians are quite afraid of them.
Recognize these cute little elves? No copyright/patent infringement here! We got these as a treat for the kids in Kenya.
A typical Tanzanian plate of food - rice, beans, meat. This, or a variant, is what Dusty eats at the office for lunch every day until he gets tired of it and asks me to make him a PB&J.
Spiderman and Princess. One is powerful, and the other is sweet, as you can see from their faces/gestures. Tessa is waving to her adoring subjects, and Jack is shooting out invisible webbing. I was practicing with face paint for Tessa's party the next week. They loved being my guinea pigs.
A gorgeous moth who landed on the back of Tessa's front porch birthday sign.
A fantastic, big, hairy moth who was visiting our front window one morning.
Trust me; the Scottish Shortbread cookies from South Africa are much better than their hilarious name.
The sticker says, "Be Truth" which I thought was a fabulous misspelling for a "Beetroot." The idea of having a price sticker on produce is totally bizarre here anyway. But hey, we're thrilled to be able to buy beets. The kids love them since they make their tongues purple. They cost 4,000 Tanzanian shillings per kilo, which roughly translates to about $3.50 for 2 pounds.
Action Jackson struts his stuff in our kiddie pool on Tessa's birthday. I painted his face like Batman, but by this point most of it had washed off.
Bat poop (guano) leaking down the wall after a particularly hard rain brought water through our cracked roof and deteriorating ceiling boards. The cool thing was that one of the men who came to fix it found our team's translation of Luke 1 and 2 in his language and got really excited.
A cloud of sami (lake flies) over Lake Victoria. I was happy to watch them move in a direction other than towards our house. They're tiny and get into everything, then die and stink up a storm.
Jack and Tessa enjoying local yogurt and straws from a care package. Jack's got a nice yellow shiner on the center of his forehead from a fall earlier. The bruise lasted an entire week.
Our vegetable garden, which now hosts sweet corn, lettuce, bell peppers, butternut squash, and real American sweet potatoes! All those things are thrilling! Planting a vegetable garden was one of my three goals for 2nd term, so it's exciting to be reaping the rewards on our plates.
ONE day's take of passion fruit, guavas, and oranges from our garden. The passion fruit makes great juice, but the oranges were inedible - which we sadly discovered after making orange juice.
Jack and Tessa at the local train station restaurant (our house). Their waiter was Alphonse (me). The menu was red juice, apple slices, avocado chunks, sausage sticks (leftover egg/sausage casserole), and noodles (also leftovers). The reward for eating it all was the Ice Cream Supreme Especial (vanilla ice cream, cocoa powder, 1/2 a cookie, and an ancient maraschino cherry). Bon Apetite!
The two chameleons we found walking through the grass in the backyard. We later put them in separate basins (the kids' bathtubs and our laundry tubs) for the day so we could play with them (i.e. worry them just enough to make them change colors and get stripes). After Dusty came home and saw them, we released them into our garden.
One of the chameleons silently yelling at me. Chameleons do bite, and Tanzanians are quite afraid of them.
Recognize these cute little elves? No copyright/patent infringement here! We got these as a treat for the kids in Kenya.
A typical Tanzanian plate of food - rice, beans, meat. This, or a variant, is what Dusty eats at the office for lunch every day until he gets tired of it and asks me to make him a PB&J.
Spiderman and Princess. One is powerful, and the other is sweet, as you can see from their faces/gestures. Tessa is waving to her adoring subjects, and Jack is shooting out invisible webbing. I was practicing with face paint for Tessa's party the next week. They loved being my guinea pigs.
A gorgeous moth who landed on the back of Tessa's front porch birthday sign.
A fantastic, big, hairy moth who was visiting our front window one morning.
Trust me; the Scottish Shortbread cookies from South Africa are much better than their hilarious name.
The sticker says, "Be Truth" which I thought was a fabulous misspelling for a "Beetroot." The idea of having a price sticker on produce is totally bizarre here anyway. But hey, we're thrilled to be able to buy beets. The kids love them since they make their tongues purple. They cost 4,000 Tanzanian shillings per kilo, which roughly translates to about $3.50 for 2 pounds.
Action Jackson struts his stuff in our kiddie pool on Tessa's birthday. I painted his face like Batman, but by this point most of it had washed off.
Bat poop (guano) leaking down the wall after a particularly hard rain brought water through our cracked roof and deteriorating ceiling boards. The cool thing was that one of the men who came to fix it found our team's translation of Luke 1 and 2 in his language and got really excited.
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