Today as always was another beautiful day in Tanzania, +35
degrees Celsius . The plan this morning was to do head to toe assessments on
children ages four to six years old at a school. We got packed up in the Noah
(our hearty minivan) and were on our way. We ended up at a school, but the
students were adults. After being here for almost five weeks, we are quite
accustomed to things going as planned so this was not a problem. We did
physical assessments and sexual health teaching to approximately 20 people until
lunch time. At that time the adult learners were on break so we talked with
some programmers and instructors. They then treated us to tea, bread and butter
and fresh fruit. We than parted ways and made our way back home.
Later on in the day, a couple of us went to a market
nicknamed the “Mzungu Market” because it is mostly visited by white tourists.
It is also more pricey than other local markets. My friend and I bought three
mangoes for 3000 Tanzanian shillings (TSh) and I bartered a bunch of sweet
bananas down to 2000TSh. I was feeling a little bad that I spent 5000TSh till I
did the conversion to US dollars. 1600TSh is equivalent to 1 US dollar so the
matunda (fruit) cost me a big total of 3 dollars and 13 cents. Nowhere in
Canada would I be able to buy that much fruit so I guess it is not that bad ;)
Goodnight and have a great day,
Stefany
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