Another day of Swahili and chilling in Dar. I visited with a few Tanzania friends today and now am finally able to quickly upload pictures so it's catch up time. The first link is from a trip to Bagamoyo we took. Beach town about an hour away that used to be a trading post during the slave trade. Very fascinating and beautiful.



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Secondly, I heard there were problems with the Simba pictures so here is the link, fixed I believe!



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Finally, a few pics from Dar. The last one of all the people watching TV are the Tanzanians watching Big Brother Africa. Not many people have televisions so they all watch at Daruso, the bar where we hang out. It's really fun! It's a great show too, a reality show for Africa.



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I had fun today receiving my first letters from June and Earle Brown, and my Mom and Dad. So, the mail works! I also had fun explaining to my mom a big about swahili. We learned one of the final components yesterday of the language. It's fascinating because it is a building block kind of language. You start with the root verb, say "kulala" to sleep. (the ku is the "to" in the infinitive.) To say I sleep, you had the subject prefix ni and the tense prefix na, so you get ninalala, I sleep. to make it you sleep, you just change the subject prefix from ni, to u...so you get unalala. It's similar to make past tense. Change the tense prefix from na to li and you get ulilala, you slept. You can also add the object infix to get a direct or indirect object. It doesn't work with kulala, but say pa, which means get. You have the subject prefix ni, tense prefix na, direct object infix say ku which means you as a direct object and the verb pa. So you have ninakupa- I get him. It's very fascinating and seems to make much more grammatical sense than english! So, I expect you all to be fluent when I get back.