I usually do a photo blog about my life during the month, but I haven’t been taking that many photos here in Africa. I’ll put some of the blame on the lack of great internet to upload the photos or my video…Hopefully that will come soon.
But for now, I compiled a list of what my life in Tanzania and Kenya has looked like so far:
Joy
Dancing
Skirts
Brown Dirt
Red dirt
Loud music. Louder music. Some of the loudest music I’ve ever heard.
Rhythmic Beats
Choir
Laughter
Shouting
Weird Tongue, yelling, yodeling-thing
B.O.
Green vegetation like I’ve never seen
Dry, desolate land
Bush land
Mangos
Ugali
Chilli Sauce
Tuk Tuks
Bucket showers with ice cold water
Hot Coals for warmth
Hand-made guitars
Sitting around playing music
Chickens. Everywhere.
Killing chickens for dinner
Unique hairstyles
Machetes
Crazy fabric patterns
Bare-footed Kids
Babies wrapped in cloth on their mother’s backs
Babies on the backs of their siblings
Hearing “Mzungu” everywhere
Marriage proposals with promises of cows as gifts
Squatty potties
Flies swarming the squatty potties
Rice
Mosquito nets
Lack of personal space
Villages with no running water or electricity
Busy Cities with tall buildings and billboards
Hand-washing clothes
Mountains
Flat lands
The heat of the sun
The cold at night
Giraffes, Zebras, and baboons are the norm
Fruit stands
Crowded Markets
Open-aire Butcher shops
Crammed Buses
Timely schedules have little to no value
Funky jewelry
Sleeping 3 to a mattress
Mudhut classrooms
Instant coffee
Millions of bright stars
White Teeth
Mouths with no teeth
Sunflower fields
Avocados the size of a baby’s head
Chai tea
Muddy water
‘Boom-Chic-A-Boom’
Chipati
Freaky looking bugs
A culture of honoring and serving
