Before Halifa leaves for Lushoto to continue his studies, he invited me over to his house for dinner. My brother Gilbert “escorted” me to the dinner…which I was very grateful for since he speaks very good English and helps me when I am having trouble understanding (and gives me a hard time when I have forgotten words he has already taught me :).
Halifa has two kids and a wife. He lives in a very nice house with three other families, and is renting out certain rooms in the house. We had a very nice dinner, complete with french fries (called chips), rice, a meat dish, and a glass bottle of Fanta Orange.
Afterwards we watched a comedy show completely in Kiswahili…..that involved a host and a Scooby Doo hand puppet….and a few other things I didn’t really understand. Halifa also invited over his friend from another local school, and he asked a lot about comparisons in the weather, and how many hours there are in a day (this is where I found out about telling time based on one’s shadow).
All in all, it was a great evening…and an interesting contrast in terms of the different living situations of all of the teachers at Chumbageni.
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