Yesterday we didn’t have school because of the holiday. I was very appreciative of having some free time for myself and spent most of the morning catching up on emails, washing my socks and underwear, reviewing materials for my job with Teach For America that I’ll be starting when I get home, and listening to my favorite country music.
After finishing all of those things and taking a nice mid-morning nap, I met up with my host family’s uncle who is the Plant Manager at a very large cement company in Tanga called Simba Cement. Godfrey also used to work there, but is now retired. I got a great tour and was able to see how cement is made from where the raw materials are mined in the quarry all the way up until where it is packed in bags and loaded on the trucks for market. I must have spent 3 hours there driving around in a truck with two engineers who explained the entire process and let me take a million pictures along the way. The whole plant is shut down for annual cleaning so there was minimal noise, dust, and general chaos and we got to go a lot of places that usually would be inaccessible. For example, I got to walk inside a huge tube-like kiln that is 68 meters long and gets up to over 1000 degrees Celsius during normal operations!
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