The 5 week break from school is almost over! Yes, really! It began at the end of June (when we made our trip to Dar for medicals!) and school starts again on August 4th, so it seems strange when we hear about all our friends in the UK, just finishing the school year, as the girls get ready to start again. BOTH girls ... Naomi can't wait!
In the meantime, with MAF officially closed, Mark and the few remaining engineers have a whole pile of extra unexpected work. We're pleased to announce however that a new company run by the ex-chief engineer and providing work for many of the ex-MAF, is well on it's way to being set up in the hangar. We're so happy that many of Mark's former national colleagues will still have employment even though MAF is gone!
There is currently still no news on the Australia front, but Jenny and the girls weren't going to let that dampen their fun over the school break, although you have to get creative here as there is not much to do in Dodoma and nowhere to 'go'! As well as catching up with both ex-pat and Tanzanian friends, there have been play dates, birthday parties and sleepovers ...
Makeshift camps in the living-room, material and second-hand clothes shopping, and meals out, like the yummy Zanzibar mix and samosa's shown below!
Jenny and the girls also set themselves a crafty challenge ... to do some different kind of craft every day, which isn't so straight forward given the resources available here! From playdough to paper flowers, paper plate crowns to welcome home posters, birthday cards to paper lei's, heart tree pictures to paper plate weaving, straw necklaces ... the list goes on! Here are some of the photos we took ...
The lovely thing has been that with each project, the girls have always been thinking about who they can give each of their new creations to! Many of which they have allocated to some of their friends who are in the process of leaving. Below is a photo of Naomi with 2 of her friends, the one on the left will be here till the end and the one on the right left earlier this week with her family to a different part of Tanzania.
The girls have also been enjoying riding their bikes a little more too, to get rid of some of their energy after all the craftiness! Naomi has really cracked it (with stabilisers!) this holiday and never wants to stop! It's been fun to watch them improve as they cycle up and down our compound and we're really grateful that we were able to bring both bikes in the container with all our stuff last year!
There is just one week of the holidays left now before both girls head to school. We're pleased to be able to share that our temporary Tanzanian visas have just been renewed once again and we are not having to plan to leave the country in that final week ... but have instead planned a little adventure of our own to a different part of the country! Watch this space and we'll update you when we get back!
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