initial report (10/2010)
Julius Froehlich, Tanzania Singida
first project
a. How was your arrival in the project? How you took up the project partners?
Before the arrival of Jana and I were still in Arusha at the Work Camp. Only a week after the end of the work camp, we then our mentor, Richard and Claudia D. from Arusha to Singida down. The bus journey was very tiring and when we eventually arrived in Singida, we have Jana and Claudia brought them to Jana's family and are then drove to Richard's house, where I am housed. It was late evening, but the family who rented the rooms were still awake and have welcomed me warmly. I was not after the long bus ride to keep me in a position to ausgeibig with them. Furthermore, they could not speak English, except for Bennet / Bennado and roommate. I visited the next day Lara Iguguno with Claudia, Jana and Richard, where we made a small village of round and all sorts of people have said hello. Then we said goodbye and Claudia are three drove back again. The next day we spent getting to know Singida and our projects.
b. What happened to you in the first few days / weeks on the project? What was unusual or new to you?
Since I already knew much of Arusha, such as driving the Daladala, general rules of conduct in the public, greetings, and basic-Kiswahili, eigtl was only the new environment new to me . The way of life in such an environment was different in Arusha. Singida into a small town between two large lakes. In the middle of the savanna are the rough stone houses with gray and green sometimes painted Wellblechdaechern. Between the houses stand here and there on enormous stones and give the whole picture of a face Singida. No other city or town which I saw in Tanzania is so sandy, dusty and windy. Arusha is still much dirtier than Singida, but it's the heat wave, which always stops from noon until the afternoon at 5 sometimes unbearable. It's like a permanent summer. In the first weeks of life has now leveled off. Jana and I go off every weekday at 8 to teach in the school, and then go to 12 with the Daladala in the Children and Community Center of Singida. There, we help you learn, play and eat and cook distribute. At 4 we are then usually back in town. I've considered in the first week whether I should go to a football club. Directly on the following day, I was already inside. Now I have every day 5:00 to 6:30 Training with an African football team. The playing conditions are different, but I'll get used to it soon enough.
Home is also all very simple and quiet. In the morning I breakfast with Bennet and then go to school. Afternoon I come home and drag me around for the training. When I return, I expect most of the young son of the family, is thrilled when I play with him. I eat in the evening then by Bennet and see this TV. It is anyway started most of the day the television, even if no one at home.
total of the people I work with very curious as to what Germany is concerned, and very friendly. They help us with the Täglisch tasks and bring us every day with a little more Kiswahili.
c. were met your expectations so far? So what were you not prepared?
I had imagined, on the whole lot worse. Many told me that there would be no drinking water. One had to take it all from distant wells and then boil. It was also the question that no sane shops are here, where one could buy the usual. But that has all my thoughts erwisen SO wrong. Of course water is not currently listed under every stone. But there is always water available. And since we're in the dry season here, it will go out in the rainy season, probably not ever.
shops here are also not in short supply. There are Internet cafes, small supermarkets, is offered a large food market on the fish, rice, onions, bananas, potatoes, corn flour, corn, tea and much more. Singida has an old bus station which is used as a repair shop for city trucks and large vans. Gas stations are plentiful. Mattress shops, Fahrradlaeden, Motoradverkaeufer, motels, bars, Kleiderlaeden, mobile phone shops, cooking utensils, Getraenkelaeden etc.etc ....
would have what I really did not expect for a city that was regarded by many as so insignificant and unattractive. I also was not prepared for the extreme heat and the fact that there are several football clubs. This city is not so inactive as you think. Each Day is like another and yet different. Daladalas drive from Singida in every direction and bring people into the city center, buses from Dar es Salaam, Arusha and Dodoma stop here and exit. Here every day is regarded as a business. Holidays or week Eden are animated just like the days of the week. Not a day goes by without the mothers and their daughters sell or buy food, make fathers and sons in the carpentry or metal mesh or beds in Daladala collect money from passengers. Some also earn money by driving a cab in a car or motorcycle. Large Wheelbarrow by strong hands up and down the streets of the everyday noise of the city pushed past to get on the path of water, wood or other Rohgueter and to drop.
d. runs, as the support in the project? Are you satisfied (availability of contact, support, etc.)?
Since Richard is practically my roommate, and me almost daily calling when we do not see us, I always talk to the possibility with him. We get on well and I have no doubt that this will not change the next 10 months.
In school we are in constant contact with the teachers who tell us what we can do. The children help us if we know anything yet or have misunderstood something.
second life
a. Are you satisfied with the accommodation and food?
The accommodation is simple. A bed with a mosquito net and two stools. I'll try to find unused wood which is lying around in the yard, to use for the construction of furniture, I finally still live in my suitcase. In the courtyard there is a fountain that is filled during the rainy season ever. Waescheleinen hanging across the courtyard. A room for the kitchen, one for storing food, one mark for the storage of all sorts and a chicken coop is happening in the yard. Besides these rooms, there is my room, Richard's room, 2 other rooms, where they live with 2 young men and a toilet and a shower. The toilet is in almost all the houses of Africa, a hole in the soil. The flushing erflogt by a bucket of water, just after it is poured. The shower is a room with a drain. Hesse is showered with a bucket and cold water, which one can mix them as needed. Then a small cup is taken in by pouring water over him. The food at home is good. There are a lot of rice, but because I am used to. In school there is usually a small snack and a cup of tea. In the center there are still times real lunch. And if you get hungry again, one can ne mango, bananas, cookies or other snacks bought on the street. In the "Restaurants" is in most cases include ugali, rice or chips with meat. And if you eat a guest somewhere, you can not starve because you get so much on your plate, you could then roll home.
b. How are you issued in the country and the people? How is the communication? Have you made contact?
I am now very familiar with the way how people connect here want to add or do get attention. Most of us try to speak in English. But that is in most cases only as "Hello", "How are you?". This can easily go on and reply. If you can not speak English, they greet us in Kiswahili, which is now no longer a problem. Only in a few cases, they are intrusive and run after one all the time. Since then helps not really a "no" if they want money or something else. In most cases children are then one has brushed off after 100 meters.
Communication is difficult, but it is always better. Contacts is a matter of definition. If everyone wants to have the phone number of one or says he is now his friend, then I do not see this as a friend. The contacts I have here tie the colleagues at work and the Mannschaftskammeraden in the football team or the neighborhood children. However, I doubt that these contacts will remain the only ones here, but as white as it strikes very quickly.
third reflection
a. What do you want to achieve in the next few months (at work and home)? What long-term goals you can think of?
In school, I would first like to establish a foundation for later learning. The children should be able to understand me talking English to each other and solve simple tasks without having to tell them constantly need to do what they do.
private I would like to intensive deal with the family and I set a bike, so I'm not depart from Daladala dependent. I also want to remodel my room and little things to improve. I plan especially long been at a table and a shelf and maybe even a sofa from the many wood, which is not used to build. If not already so difficult and time then yes I have enough during the holidays.
long-term goals are that I can entertain myself better with the family, the students can speak English better and solve the problems faster.
b. there or are there any difficulties or problems?
Until now there are no major problems, the discussions or clarifications were needed.
c. Are there situations that Are you uncomfortable? How do you deal with it?
Of course there were those before. It's available again I find myself thinking: "Can not I just let her alone? I am only human and will be accepted. "
is because often talked about me behind my back and laughed. That makes me an angry, because I know that they exercise myself talk and they do not care that I am always the word "Mzungu" (white man) can hear. Nevertheless, I always encourage again these situations to improve my Kiswahili.
4th Other
a. went so far as communication and organization with the office?
As far as I can tell, runs the communication is not just fast, but it I am used to that everything is done more slowly.
b. Have you a mobile number through which you reached in an emergency?
+255757224461 +255757224461 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +255757224461 end_of_the_skype_highlighting (Vodacom)
+255686819260 (Zain)
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