I've faced the facts: I suck at laundry. Today I attempted to do laundry the tanzanian way. They have this bar of soap that Anna O swears makes your clothes the closest to white they can be in Tanzania. Well, I took out the soap and an hour and a half later went and got the woolite. All the Tanzanians were giving me tips and I think I basically sloshed water around without cleaning anything. Then to make matters worse, or more entertaining, I hung my clothes on the line and it started raining! It's probably better though b/c I'm sure i didn't rinse properly or something. Who knows. Needless to say I won't complain about walking down the stair to put my clothes in the washing machine at Luther again. Or at least not for a while.



Anna's parents arrived safetly here and we've had a great time with them. We all went out for Indian food on Thursday night along with two Danish girls Erin met, Ayubuh our Tanzania friend, and Des our friend from South Africa. It was quite an international event and so tasty! The Osterbur's were extremely generous too and bought dinner for everyone! I was stunned. Very kind. Yesterday Anna gave them the shock and awe tour of Tanzania and we all went to Mama Mshigeni's house for a traditional Tanzanian meal. Mama Mshigeni is like the coordinator of study abroad here and is in charge of all us crazy internationals! We had a great meal though and a fun time. Now Anna and her folks left for safiri in the north and then a trip to Zanzibar, while the rest of us are here in the lab. Time is flying though and soon the time will be up.



I got more pictures from our trip coordinator from the beginning of the trip, so if you want to see me posing with some maasi warriors or painting the local school, check em out! A second look back



We've had a troubling occurances here at the University. Two American girls, both on a program from Brown University, have had their rooms broken into and had things stolen, from passports to envelopes. Needless to say we are a bit on edge, so that has been kind of an unfortunately occurance. Until now, I have felt so safe and secure here. Now though I'm looking my room everytime I go to the bathroom even. Too bad.



The rest of the day includes homework, watching English Premier League football, and watching Bend it Like Beckham at the British Council. Sounds like a fun day! Tomorrow might be a beach day. We'll see!