At our village

Our kids :) (well, ok, actually our neighbors kids) They're sitting in our courtyard:



Loni (our nearest PC neighbor) and James visiting potters at a nearby village. There is unfortunately very little clay in our village.









Wilson, the chairman of our village's organization of small groups who is working closely with us, teaches us to build a fuel efficient stove in front of our house:


The local cement fundi helping us build a rainwater catchment tank. We're trying to follow a design to use less water. And on the very first day... The rains come!!!





(the road in front of our house!)

Mikumi National Park

(The suspension on our bus)

On our trip to the south (near Njombe) to shadow another volunteer, the wonderful Bibi Kay:








In Morogoro:


At our swearing in:

(Our host families made us all outfits. Most of us matched our host mom or dad.)

Group pics: trainees in our homestay group and volunteers in our region

Kilosa

(*note from Christy: I promise to take more pictures so there will be more with James in them!)

Warm welcome to Tanzania from Peace Corps staff:

With our host family in the village:



(Baba Senyagwa after miraculously fixing the tractor we had assumed was a permanently broken outdoor accessory!)







(local brick maker)

(Festo is the youth who herded our host family's many goats. He is Mgogo, and the Gogo people live mostly in the Dodoma region, where we are now. Festo went home right before we left our host family, but before we knew where we would be placed. We keep hoping that we will run into him.)

(sunset over the sisal field)






(Our host mama was very sweet, contrary to appearances in the picture)

After learning to make papaya jam:


On a bike ride with other volunteers: