Chuo Changu!

Karibu Chuo kikuu cha Dar es Salaam!

We arrived at the University on Monday after leaving our beach resort.  Our bed is equipped with sheets and a mosquito net.  The showers are cold and you have to supply your own toilet paper.  The room is large however, with a balcony and everything.   

The University is filled with big, beautiful trees and lots of different buildings.  We are in classroom 15 for all of our classes.  Our Swahili teacher's name is Asia (a-see-ah).  She is a very voluptuous women, who on the first day of class illustrated how a mother lion feels when she is away from her young.  "It is like someone is cutting a razor blade through the inside of your stomach," then she grabbed her breasts, "or someone pulling you."  Asia is a very good instructor though, later in the week she taught us the past tense and Swahili time.

At the University we mostly eat at the cafeteria.  Here are the options of food:
first choose:  rice or potatoes
then choose:  beans or chicken or goat
or CHIPSI MAYAI - ha which is just potatoes and eggs.
For breakfast I have been eating lots of fresh fruit and hard boiled eggs.  There is also mango and avocado juice.