Week 2 - Transportation and the markets

First meal in our new house:)

Our house at night.

Ginger, out pregnant goat.


Samosas we made using leftover potroast with added chickpeas. We made about 25 and froze the rest.

We bought the 50 pastry dough rolls for less than a dollar. We are definately exited about all the things we can put in them! Jason suggested banannas and netella! They freeze nicely.

Our new bike! Jason goes to the airport about everyday to speak to pilots and chief pilots about available jobs. He has met one very nice chief pilot that has helped him with all the information that he needs in order to get a job. Unfortunately, Jason has to go back to Dar to take a written and flying test to get his Tanzanian commercail flying license but he says its pretty easy to get. He will probably go later this week. I'm a little nervous to be left alone but our house is very safe and the people are great!

French toast and fruit.

This is Alex, our guard do. He really likes us and we really like him.

Road to our house.

Outside our house.

The other road to our house.

Condiments for everything

Fixing our first dinner at the new house, rice and beans.

Leave it to use to find a box of wine in Africa. Yes, it is sweet and red:)

Breakfast of champions! Toast with an egg, avacado, tomato and onion. I fix this about morning for Jason and I.

Jason and I purchased cups that say "Morning Gorgeous" and "Morning Handsome" for
my morning coffee and his tea.

Jason is ready to eat his favorite meal, rice and beans! We add tomato, onion, avacado and hot sauce.

Yummy!

I made a roast with potatoes, onions and the best carrots ever! And of course, leftover rice and beans.

About 4$ at the market. We always have tomatos, onion and avacado diced and ready to eat or add to anything in the fridge.

This week has been fairly uneventful. Jason bought a motorocycle and I spend a lot of time at the markets and in the kitchen. We have a fully functioning gas oven and stove top but unfortunately we dont have any pans we can actually fit in the oven. They dont have pan here or any non stick sprays so technically I fry or boil everything! I have adopted the custome of even putting oil in the water for boiling, it really does make everything taste better! Going to the market is always an eventful afternoon. We go every 3 days because the produce is always fresh and will go bad after a couple of days. We have also found our neighborhood butcher. He wasn't the friendliest, when I asked to take a picture to show you all he told me no, but we did buy about 40 oz. of "steaki" for $5. They butcher a cow every morning so we knew to get there early to get the good fresh cuts. The hunks of different parts of the cows are then hung up by large metal hooks in a dirt floored shack about the size of a small closet. We recently found that we could buy fresh chicken at the supermarket. It was a good find, I really didn't want to make Jason kill a chicken from the market.

Overall, things couldn't be better! Jason is on his way to getting a job and I am visiting a local baby orphanage tomorrow. I have been in contact with about 5 schools and orphanages offering any services they might need. Cradle of love, the baby orphanage, has expressed interest in hiring me on as preschool teacher,, but I'm not sure that is the route I want to take right now.

Next week we hope to find some trails near and on Mt. Meru. There is a lot of wildlife right outside of town and we are excited to do some exploring.

We love and miss you all! Please leave comments, its makes us feel love back:)

Aubree

This is my first time blogging so please excuse the "no orderness" of it.