Gabe's email on Friday 6/15

This is part of Gabe's email to me today (minus his sappy greetings to me!) I have tried to add in parenthesis things which need interpreting or explaining. Jill

Friday 6/15

We finally got a minute to pop in and email again. Yesterday we walked straight from Mnarani to John's house via Seahorse Road and cut across behing the Institute. It took about 1 hour to walk and the guys got to see some good Giryama farming culture.

We took chai rangi (black chai without milk) na mahamri at John's and they got a good culture lesson like John always does. We went to Elizabeth's to look at some traditional Giryama things. She really greeted you and loved seeing the pictures. From there we went to find Harrison Shida and visited Esther, Janet, et al. on the way. They all really greet you and enjoyed the pictures. We didn't find Shida, so we went on to Philip Safari's house. He moved to Fumbini - you can see our old house from his plot. I went there before we left to look at the farm with him so now he lives there and is building his little duka (store). He cooked a chicken for us and we stayed the afternoon there. Trent tried 7 new foods yesterday - samosa, mahamri, cassava, sugar cane, wari, kuku local, and something else I'm forgetting. We returned to John's and had beans/chapati for supper.

It was getting dark, so John walked us to Kibaoni where we got a tiktik back to Mnarani. We were tired. This morning we met Jeremiah and Duncan at the office and after these errands, we are headed to Kaloleni. We'll be there today and tomorrow, then to Maziachenda and Kadzitsoni. I hope we'll be back on Monday in time to email you then. We are taking the bus to Kaloleni so that should be an adventure. Hope all is well there and I'll write more when I can. We are having fun and it has been a great time so far. Thanks for all your prayers that lift us up. Gabe