Our house, Tanzania!

After our stressful day, things seemed to perk up a bit, and we had a good time teaching on Thursday. We made name tags with the non formals and they really enjoyed drawing on them and putting stickers all over the paper. One of them even wrote "Love Camilla and Elena", which was really cute, and surprising as most think that our names are Helen and Camera. We've had some pretty funny teaching moments - during one nutrition lesson, when trying to explain the meaning of healthy, the girls got confused and we ended up with sentences like "Malaria is healthy" and when we tried to correct it, we got "Carrots is ^not healthy!"
 On Friday, the girls put together a fashion show for us which lasted a long time and had many different styles of clothing including office wear, khangas and kitangas (traditional African clothing) along with punjabs, special occasion clothing, and casual wear. One of the most interesting categories was the religious clothing - there were Christian dresses, and Muslim dresses along with burqas and headscarves.
We spent the weekend at the school, hanging out with the girls and spending a lot of time cooking. We managed to make a delicious banana bread loaf even though we had no measuring utensils, an oven without temperature markings, and only a bowl instead of a pan. It was so delicious, and to top it off we frosted it with some of the Nutella we brought with us! We never would have expected to be eating Banana bread on a Saturday morning in Tanzania! When we went to the school on Saturday, we brought an Ipod with us, and danced to Western songs with the girls, which they loved! They tried to emulate our style of dancing, while we desperately attempted their butt-shaking - something we now know we will never be able to do! We also had a lesson of how to carry buckets of water on our heads, which we couldn't do on Saturday, but after some practice, and a day's rest, we managed to carry a 10L bucket of water balanced on our head, with no hands! Granted, it was a little wobbly, but we were so proud of ourselves! The girls found it funny though, as they can carry a 20L bucket and then another 10L bucket stacked on top of it, while dancing around underneath it all!

Balancing the buckets, its harder than it looks!

Sunday was 10/10/10, and there is an organisation called 350 that promotes environmental awareness by organising activities on that day. The SEGA school decided to promote awareness of bush fires, as there had been one last week that burned their compost, so we gathered facts on the topic to make the posters later in the week. We also dug eighty five holes with the girls' hoes, which we were to plant sixty passionfruit trees in. The girls found it very easy, and took a short time to do it, but we were less than experienced and weren't much of a help. We're looking forward to watching the seedlings grow, and were invited by the gardener, Mustafa, to visit his strawberry farm in the mountains, which we plan to do next weekend!

Digging holes for the passionfruit trees

Mama Ntilie - one of our favourite songs!