Morogoro and Kiswahili

A long(4hrs) , dusty, bumpy bus ride with dubious inboard local Video entertainment, brought us to Morogoro as it was getting dark.
We are staying in a lovely clean, new, friendly Hostel run by nuns. This is also where we are having instruction. Rooms are airy, cool, clean, with mosquito nets to each bed. There is even hot water! Food is good, plentiful and wholesome, but meat can be a bit chewy....probably beef! We also have a choice of beers in the communal room for evening socialising (usually Safari or Safari...).
We have a wonderful backdrop of mountains reaching 2,300m and on Sunday morning we went on a trek up a stream, past a full church, service just finishing, all in their Sunday best. We continued up the stream over a dryish river bed, over rocks reminiscent of Dartmoor. Rupert and Matthew, the 12yr old son of a couple of co-volunteers were the only ones able to leap from rock to rock with ease... the youngest and oldest! On the way back Sandra, from Holland showed some of the children (watoto) some movies she had taken. They were delighted to see themselves.
A trip to the town centre/market/etc in the evening. A dusty, higgldypiggledy but lovely town, thriving (by Tz standards) and busy. Market seemed to have everything in abundance: pineapples, pawpaws, oranges, coconuts, cucumbers, tomatos, dried fish, spices etc. We girls also sussed out the material shop with a tailor!
Today we started Swahili tuition in earnest .. mainly greeting, introductions and numbers. Karibu, habari gani, hujambo, salama.....
So kwaheri (Goodbye) for now to you all.