On October 8th, we will be leaving our home for 6+ weeks of travel and research in Northern Tanzania. We will return to our house for 3 weeks before we leave Tanzania. The University campus is our neighborhood, and in the 10 weeks we have been here, we have really enjoyed walking around and becoming familiar with the campus. We take morning exploratory walks, afternoon walks to the pool and mid-day walks to study areas or to the cafeteria. It now feels like home and I know we will be happy to be back in November. Here are a few photos to introduce our neighborhood.
We walk by this mosque nearly every day, although it really depends on our route: on the road or on the dirt path? To the dala dala stop or the cafeteria? So many options!
Walking across the bridge to get to the main part of campus.
Afternoon ritual for Jon and the girls – swimming at the University pool (bwawa la kuogelea).
The girls have become so comfortable in the water and are really improving their swim strokes. Going to the pool has been a great afternoon routine.
This is part of the athletic fields. There is usually a soccer game in the middle (and about 10 other soccer games/practices around!). I have been running around the track every few days for exercise (mazowezi). There are also lots of people playing basketball, using the chin up bars, practicing boxing and karate, or just sitting around watching others exercise. 🙂
The campus is really quite nice. There are many dirt paths and dry areas, but also many trees, shrubs and quiet study areas.
The campus is hilly so there are some nice views in places. This is the cafeteria where we eat regularly. Up a little higher you can see the Dar skyline and the ocean in the background.
Walking to the Engineering College cafeteria. We’ve only eaten there a few times because it’s farther to walk. But the food is better. 🙂
SylLy Acres 
October 8, 2016 at 2:16 pm
Have a nice 6 week outing. Are you taking bottled water to drink? Maybe you can swim with the wilde beasts at a local watering hole.😎
October 11, 2016 at 1:43 am
Thanks for the tour of your neighborhood! It looks like a nice place. Aliyah is always looking up in our trees certain that she sees monkeys. I suppose when you look up in the trees, there actually ARE monkeys there!
October 12, 2016 at 9:15 am
You have to teach Aliyah the difference between squirrels and monkeys! 🙂 I don’t think we will ever get tired of watching the monkeys. Especially the tiny babies!