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Saturday, August 22 2009
Here we are after six days in Tanzania, in our pink house on the hill, with internet, cell phones, a means to cook (gas), running water and a car in the driveway. What more could we ask for? When you step through the gate, and go up the steep drive, the view across the way is astounding...spread out below is the Msasani peninsula, and the high rises of downtown Dar...in the immediate foreground are local houses and several undulating hills. Such an interesting area we live in! The road up the hill is long, winding and very bumpy and it goes through a neighbourhood I can only describe as "varied". High walls with barbed wire and security notices are interspersed with corrugated iron shanties; chickens, goats and cows roam freely and children greet us with enthusiastic "good morning"s. We have had lots of time to explore our neighbourhood on foot, and today went off the main road to finally shop at our local market. I had a hard time buying vegetables in the various European style supermarkets we have been taken to, but without a car it has been difficult to get to markets.