Well, just in case you’re wondering if I’m actually working. Yes, of course I am. The trip to Tanga was totally necessary to recover from all the stress. Chasing after Tanzanian business men to come up with the goods is a precarious thing. You get easily insulted. And after 6 week’s waiting for something that should have been delivered 7 weeks ago you simply need a break. Well, ok, ok, it’s not that bad, but it’s rather easy to lose your rag here. I have to remind myself a lot of my friend’s advice to never show that you’re angry. But with the arrival of a new ‘project manager’ (a volunteer intending to stay for 6 months – lucky cow!) hopefully helps to speed things up and to pull things together. So, apart from the waiting game, things are moving along nicely. The girls are pretty good now with their sandwich preparation and their customer service skills. So next week we’ll tackle salads and, shock, horror, the coffee making. We purchased a dated espresso machine that could wake the whole street with it’s tremendous noise when foaming the milk. And then, if things go well, we’re planning a week of mock operation and then, this is the exciting but also the mean bit – the shop will open! Exciting of course because the project goes live. But also mean because I won’t be there. So maybe, if I stay another 2 weeks? No, no, it can’t be done. Don’t even think about it.
But then, I haven’t even started in the OT department, maybe if that goes really well? It’s good for my CV, innit? Nah, as much as I’d love to – money is running out and, yup, I admit it, I start to miss hot showers and my car and my cats and my friends!!!!!
So, in the meanwhile a few more pics for your entertainment. I particularly like the one of the dresses… you can see why I might like it here – no worrying about size 0!!!
