Goat slaughter Marangu and Lingo

Hello everybody!!

Yes i know, were late again with writing a blog but okay i'm tell you our latest adventures even though there from 2 weeks ago...

It al started on friday the 20th of november. We had a small celebration for al students because they worked so hard on there different projects. Because of that, Sam decided that we had to slaughter a goat. So that's what they did. The Massaai guards together with some of the students were slaughtering the goat and separated the normal meat from the organs. The organs were boiled in some water with sold, and the meat was been cooked by mama Mery. The massaai also toke the goat blood cleaned it a bit, put some sold in it and saved it in a small bowl.

The soup they made from the organs was actually quit nice, Joosje and me were the only 2 of our group who tasted it. We discovered later that between the organs also small pieces of poo were floating and i'm afraid that i swallowed a piece...

after they made this soup with organs, the put some meat in the bowl and the blood. They cooked it for a while and after that they put in the soup. Agian joosje and i took a zip and tasted it. I took some more because i liked it.

During luch we had to eat cooked banana's with the goat meat in a souse. The girls didn't liked it, also the vegetarian option and I thought it was someting i could eat. It was not good but nice.

At the end of the afternoon we leaved school to go away for the weekend in Marangu. Marangu is a place in the neighborhood of Moshi. It is a very nice green place with a lot of water. On friday evening we arrived in our "small" guesthouse. We had a kitchen, 2 rooms for only stuff like plates, glasses etc, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a dinning room and a living room. It was a big nice place. The guides also had to sleep in our house but that was in this place not a big deal. The girls sleep with the three of them in one room, and i had the master bedroom with my private bathroom.

The weekend was super cool! We had some nice walks, we saw some waterfalls and learned a lot of the Chakka people who are living in this place. Unfortunately on saturday Colinda had to go home because she was getting sick. (during this writing she is feeling much better)

On saturday our second guide (Alfred who organized this trip) came to visit us. Paul had taken us on friday and stated also with us.

Our guesthouse was hired from an older woman called Mama Stella. She was such a great person. She helped, actually she toke our cooking part over. But the food, my god, the food was so good!! We really enjoyed it!

On sunday we had to leave but we had lunch, also very nice, by a hot spring somewhere in the dessert. We had a swim and a good laugh and after that we had to go home. But with the feeling that we just a good small well deserved vacation!

And on monday there was a new adventure who was waiting for us, called Lingo! 3 people, JP, Marie Claire and Tony, of IDtv came to KFI to make in 5 days a lingo pilot for the Tanzania tv market. They even toke Lucille Werner to KFI to make Lingo popular in Tanzania.

The students were placed in different groups and had to work in these small teams. We had to only supervise them and when things really went wrong we had to help them. They even learned how to operate the real lingo computer.

The students had the build a set, come up with al the 5 letter words, make a jury, learn how to operate the computer and take care of the sound and lighting.

At wednesday afternoon they had to shoot the first pilot option. This didn't go as we had planned and JP decided that thursday morning they had to shoot the pilot. He asked me to help Timothy by de technical part of this project. So we hang the lights connected the sound and they recorded the show only in 4 hours instate of the the 9 hours it took last time ( in march of this year)

Friday they had to show the episode of lingo to Lucille and a lot of partners of KFI, the neighbors of KFI, the students and some clients. They had to work a night long but they could only show the roughcut. Before JP showed the people the episode they watched our film about the importance of making documentary here in Tanzania called Each One Teach One.

After the viewing we had a party and all students, staff and guards get the new Lingo t-shirts.

It was nice but they have to do a lot of work these weeks. But we know that they will finish it.

In the weekend we chilled and had to go shopping ofcourse. On sunday we went to Moivaro lodge for a swim and relaxing at the swimming pool

So this was our story about the last 2 weeks. I might have forgotten something so when we'r back we can tell you a lot more.

So speak to you soon!

greeting from the staff students and the members of our Tanzania group

Paco

haha

I just now notice I forgot to write something. Also the guy holding the goat is not Gideon. Gideon is the one cutting the goat.
Anyway, we (Chantal, Joosje and me) visited Gideon in Masailand. It was a great experience, we danced with warriors, witnessed a goat slaugthering, milked a cow and the best part of all was getting to know Gideons family. They were so incredibly sweet and we enjoyed every minute over there. Also spending time with gideon again was something I'm ery thankfull for especially because we almost lost him a couple of weeks ago. His appendix burst open and he almost lost his life because of that. So all in all a fantastic experience..

love and peace to all

op bezoek bij onze lieve rafiki Gideon

From a distance

Hi everyone,

first I need to apologize for the fact that it has been ages since I wrote something on this blog. I'm sorry, I have been very busy.
The weather over here has gone mad I think. One day it is over thirty degrees celsius, the other day rain comes poring down and then it is really cold. The Africans like the rainy days, we Dutch love the sun.. haha big cultural difference.
Anyways we are having fun, although Paco has been sick for a couple of days now. Yesterday we went to see doctor Msawe. A big, huge African man, who can't stop showing all his knowledge to us. haha He thinks mzungo's ( europeans) don't trust African doctors and that's why he tells us all about the human body. But he gave Paco medicines and we now pray he will be better real soon.
Last week we went to the circus, which was amazing. 90% Tanzanian performers who can do freaky stuff with their bodies. We had a lot of fun especially the ladies (me included) we saw beautiful, muscled, black, flexible, handsome, talented men!!!! The other students ( the men who were with us) also had a lot of fun, hearing us screaming. See the pictures:)

So this is a short update. I will try to keep u posted of what's going on at this distance..

badea + busu

Enjoying our weekend

This weekend we had finally some time to relax and enjoying the weekend. Saturday we went to go out for dinner at our favorite pizza place in Arusha. We took three of our students, Levina, Ezra and Alex with us and also Msechu our creative director with us. We had a good and nice meal.

After dinner we went to the circus called Mama Africa! This was an African circus. We heard from people we spoke last week that this circus was very good. We wanted to know for our self and so we went to the circus. For Msechu and Levina this was the first time that they went to the Circus.

The show was great! Damn these people were flexible! There were snake people; a lot of good acrobats, dancers and music. The atmosphere was just so nice! We were so impressed by al the tricks. It was just great. We had a great time.

And because of that we decided after the circus to go out. We decided to go to a place called the Masaai camp. Also at that place we had a good time. We had some drinks, we laugh a lot and we were just having a good night.

Sunday the three of us ( Joosje Chantal and me) decided to relax at the swimming pool of Moivaro lodge. Because it was quit we could sit on different beds by the pool. So we choose a spot and jumped in the pool.

It was a good and relaxing day.

So now we are fully loaded for this week and today we can start fresh at our meeting with the people of SVVT.

Speak to you soon

Greetings Paco