I just ate gazelle at a nearby resturaunt, I still have some ugali caked under my finger nails, and I'm currently typing this at an internet cafe because someone screwed up the internet at home base.
This brings me to the topic of today; TFT, also known as Tanzanian Flexible Time. This phrase basicly explains how people in Tanzania don't live as much of a fast paced, scheduled life like Westerners. This can be nice becaus it helps people like me relax, but it also can be really irritating when you're depending on other people. Recently I've been feeling like TFT is an excuse for irresponsibility. I know that part of this is just me going through my resistant phase of culture shock, but recently I've had muliple occasions of frustration mostly caused by TFT.
Isaac is a local and friend of mine who also volunteers at juvy. He had a job interview Friday and today, which is good for him, but he also didn't let me know so I had to stumble through working with the kids who don't understand much English, most of them were also asking for Isaac. Then there's the deal with the internet at home base, somebody screwed with the computer and now it can't remember the password for logging on to the internet and apparently no one at home base knows what it is and we have to call a technician to come over to type in the password for us and he hasn't been avialable since Friday. Next, there's the issue with my camera. On Saturday I went to Arusha again, this time all on my own and in one of the buses they have here, to get my camera fixed. I was in luck, they said they would have it fixed by tomorrow at 4. I show up on Sunday at 4:30 and everything is closed up. So today I now have to go again to pick up my camera, hopefully I'll never have to ride in those buses again since the drive is an hour and a half to Arusha.
Monday, February 23, 2009
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