quick post!

so there is internet in the next village...sort of...it's a government building that has private internet and our friend asked if we could use it to check our email... so this will be a short post and will not happen often.

as my mom mentioned we live very simply. we have fought roaches (and are winning!) and have gotten into the routine of filtering and boiling water. our site is very dry, brown, and dusty at the moment but i hear it should rain any day now.

russ is fixing up and cleaning the computer lab at the school while i go into the market and buy food. what is available to us: beans, rice, potatoes, okra, tomatoes, nyanya chungu (like bitter tomatoes), pumpkin leaves (they're excellent), spinach (mchicha - which i can't eat because of an allergy i have with spinach), leaves of sweet potato, and garlic. that's about it. i would love peas and carrots... maybe in dodoma.

well, i've got to go so i will try to upload pictures when in dodoma in a few weeks.