Dust, bus, football, making a friend.

Dust is a now the one thing more important than mosquito repellent as it gets in to everything and has to be dealt with. So in a dusty week, Paul, Nya, Lottie and Wesleigh arrived from the UK for a short visit to the school, a short tour of Tanzania and a few days near the ocean during a stay in Zanzibar.
We walked to the airfield and the wind blew hard from the east and kicked up a fog of dust.

On the football field the students chased through dust.

On a more peaceful day I made friends with some chickens while the others attracted a huge and slightly worrying entourage of primary school students who followed us through the village. Being observed as a kind of curiosity is something of a novelty and it has some lessons that can be learned.

Today we visited Dodoma, on the bus, changed some shoes, shopped for fruit, bought some wine, had a swim and lunch, and in the bus on the way back Paul made a friend.


Paul has been informally elected as an ambassador to small people in Tanzania. The child has the most wonderful smile, and enjoyed the process of making friends.