Report from the Field

Well, I have arrived in Tanzania. I am presently attempting to learn basic Swahili. At the moment, Swahili is winning the battle, but I have two months in which to learn.

Here are my first impressions of Tanzani:

• the people are very friendly;
• the food is very tasty;
• the weather is very hot and humid;
• I could get used to living on East Africa Time;
• Swahili has a logical grammatical structure (if only I could understand what people are saying);
• I should have brought less socks and more towels;
• internet service is very slow;
  
• Coca Cola can be found out here (God bless the USA).