Mbeya Assignment

Got assigned to a boarding school in rural Mbeya Region, southern highlands. Leaving tomorrow for site visit one week. Travelling two days because we need to meet bus schedules, staying overnight in a stopover then overnight at Mbeya City, then my replacement PCV will take me to the school to meet the headmaster, called mkuu in Swahili.

We have to work out the logistics with PC staff and other current PCVs who are helping us to get to our destinations.

The school has of elevation 1995 meters, Mbeya is the coffee producing region. Temperature in winter can be 11 degrees Centigrade-because I requested for a cooler climate since my mosquito bites can be very large.

Sorry for all the metrics, no time to do conversion, as I have very little time to send messages.



Mashindei Mtn waterfall, some host family members,
my PST group

A giant 7-inch!!! mango we all ate at my host family dinner one evening. Most of the volunteers and trainees love the mango, embe

Sisal is a major product in the Tanga Region
where we are training. The fibers from the agave plant
(Mexican origin) are made into baskets and other products



Goats came to visit our "office"
and language classroom.
Note the wall is like some old European
or Russian apartment walls-peeling paint,
ugly patches, shabby

The 6 trainees assigned to Mbeya Region. We will be sworn in the following day as volunteers: left to right-Alyssa, Makala, Ronnie, Kenta, Zoe, Alice.