New Year

So how've things been on the island? Great. Really great. What have I been up to?

Starting school, scuba diving, drinking scotch and building christmas bonfires on beach with Zimbabweans and South Africans, gourmet cooking(sting ray or eel alfredo anyone?) dancing the night away and new years skinny dipping, raising money to build desks so my students won't sit on the floor, fiinding money to send my fellow teachers abroad to college, applying for future jobs....maybe antartica? Maybe?!
Yep so its been a really busy last few weeks. Sorry no writing. But first, FIRST.

THANK YOU!!!! To everyone who donated or helped convinced people to donate to my project. It worked. The grants in. It worked!! What I mean is, all the money has been donated. This means that the money has been collected in washington. Of course, as we all know, it takes a little bit to get money from washington, to the actual beneficiaries. So right now, waiting until washington sends the check to PC Tanzania. And then after gotta wait until PC tanzania deposits the money in my bank. I estimate at least a couple weeks. Such is life.
But step one accomplished so I think its important to stay happily focused on this.
School has started as I mentioned, and I think I'll be teaching Form 4 physics, and math and form 3 physics. Which just means I'll follow the form 3's from last year forward. Interesting.
What do I think? Its cool with me, life is good.
As to break, it was quite exciting and good. Visitin and visiting! I felt like a social butterfly. For New years a whole bunch of people came to my island and we went to a hotel on the beach. By the way, its B E A U T I F U L . yup. And we stayed for like 3 days there just hanging on the beach. Sometimes its nice to do nothing. Really. Anyway, didn't do exactly nothing. Danced the new years night away. Also jumped into the Indian Ocean at midnight to celebrate the dawn of 08! Oh yea.
Next day sadly I had to cut short the vacation to head back home. But got lots of rest that night and afterwords the next day, was all fresh and ready for the start of school. Then that night got some visitors. New guy and old friend stopped by for a couple days to see my site. Very great. We had some scrumptious gourmet meals...one night calamari and octupus, half sauteed in an Alfredo sauce and half boiled. To that we added garlic mashed potatoes and shark with lime and spinach. Then the next night we gave our sting ray and eel the same treatment, also including spinach and garlic mashed potatoes. Delicious! All of this included copius amounts of fresh slushi-esk tamarind juice.
And now we're in Dar es Salaam, for our mid-service conference. Its a good place to be and full of free internet!!! (At the pc lounge that is). Myself I'm happy and I'm in with all my training class and its great. Got my teeth cleaned and getting my TB status checked.
The one sorta exciting thing that is happening now is that about 40 of the PC Kenya volunteers are currently in the country right now. They've been evacuated because of the election violence going on there and so they are chillin at a hotel in our country at the moment. The rest are in other locations.
So thats life for now. Hope all is well on your all's side of the world and I will say baadaye, for now.
Lata! But don't forget

THANK YOU!!!