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Today, Donna and Naseeb took me to meet Elly's family. Elly belong to the Chagga, a tribe who live around Kilimanjaro. Their source of income is farming - mainly bananas and coffee. Elly's family lives in Marangu a small village close to Moshi. The place was simply amazing! Banana and coffee trees growing everywhere. Everybody welcomed us so nicely and made the Mzungu* I am, ('European settler' in Swahili) very comfortable. Donna bought a lot of vegetables on the road to give to Elly's mum. All the kids were running around helping us to carry the bags. They were funny! The bags were heavier then them, but still they did it! Elly's parents are both teachers! You should see how many kids his mum takes care of, it's pretty impressive! (See pictures)
We spent the day talking and drinking some Mbege, local brew made of Bananas. We also went to see a waterfall a couple hundred meters from their house. That place will be a perfect spot to pitch my tent for a couple of days. Elly told me that I would be welcome to do so and proposed me to come back together very soon and spend 2 or 3 days camping by the fall. I'm having a good time in Tanzania since I met Naseeb, Donna and Elly. It's definitely nicer to see a country that way - with the people who make it! It gives me the opportunity to see and learn way more. I had never thought about learning Swahili, but now that I'm here in Tanzania and living with people who speaks Swahili or even Maasai it will be a shame to not learn it....at list a bit!
I don't know how long time I'm going to stay with them, perhaps 2 or 3 weeks more, before going back to Kenya and then on to Uganda. I still don't really know! I also want to go to Rwanda and Burundi but I haven't decided yet of the route. Anyway, let's just follow the flow and we will see what life reserved for me next! Thanks to Elly and his family! I had a good day and I can't wait to come back to Marangu to camp by that waterfall and of course enjoy the local smoke and some more Mbege...A LOT MORE MBEGE! * Mzungu means 'European Settler' in Swahili. It is a word you will hear a lot if you come to visit Tanzania or Kenya.
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