Friday, June 4, 2010- Zanzibar Day 11

Today was our first day teaching in the new village, Michamvi Pingue. We all woke up and had our normal tea and bread breakfast ( that is starting to make me physically sick every time I eat it now) and did some lesson planning until lunch where we had rice and beans, the same thing we've had for lunch and dinner every day for the last 5 meals. We dressed an walked on the beach because the tide was low enough and finally arrived at the village after a hot and miserable walk about an hour later.

The village would be taught separating men and women so we were supposed to do the whole intro and progression group twice in one day. It was about an hour and a half long, so teaching it twice did not sound fun.

The men were all fairly young for the first time and I felt like they all got more out of our lesson than anyone else so far. They asked a lot of questions and really followed the material well. As soon as we were done we learned that the women weren't coming because they were preparing for a wedding that would take place this weekend.

So we only had to do our topic once, which was nice, and then we were finished around 4:30 pm.

We stuck around the village to eat some chipsimayai instead of rice and beans. We had to wait a really long time since there was only one man in the village who make it so we found a little lounge a few blocks away that had a bunch of comfy chairs and a huge full bar where a lot of people promptly began drinking.

I had gone from having a pretty terrible cold to having a stomach illness, and was not about to play the fate of drinking before eating a substantial meal. We sat and talked for a while before liv, David and I went to go check on the food with Jessica and lily. We went an sat at the table they prepared for us and suddenly three little kids who were maybe 3 years old at the latest, called out "jambo!" to us. I played a game with them like hide and seek and we did a couple little follow the leader games while we waited for dinner.

I fell in love with this little girl in a white flowy dress with her shaved head and pierced ears. She would hug me and then squeal so loud and run away I would die laughing every time. The little boy with her in a yellow shirt would grab my hand and lead me all over the village with him. This is when Jessica laughed and joked," this is when Shannon is going to steal a little kid!" and I totally would have, had I had the chance. ;) kidding, of course.

Dinner was blah but it wasn't rice so we were happy. We then went over and had some drinks and hung out in the lounge. We were the only people there so the bartenders loved us and were giving us free shots. Pretty soon it was dark and the tide was too high to walk in so we had to take the road in the pitch black. I came home and called Tony, and at about 1am I realized that I had not put any deet on ad my legs were basically eatten alive by Mosquitos and learned the hard way that I should go to sleep.