Mambo!
Contrary to what our swahili teacher taught people rarely use 'jambo' here in Mtwara. More common is 'habari za...' (How is your news on... e.g. work/the morning/the family/since I las saw you - I can't say all these, yet!). However if you want to be really cool you say "Mambo!" And in response "poa!". Wicked.
So, it's taken a while for me to get a reasonble internet connection, and enough time to use it - and even now I am using the Save the Children's internet connection on a quiet evening, but my connection is coming. Apparently. Pole pole (slowly)
So hi from Mtwara to friends and family! I'm doing OK - that is until my line manager come Swahili translator leaves in 10 days and then my confidence will probably go and join the hermit crabs! I can see a major culture shock coming whenever the time comes that I have to do something for myself. But fortunately that hasn't been yet. I have Stella, who works at the partnering institute of the London School here in Mtwara, who seems to be my first contact for ANYTHING - poor Stellla...
For those of you asked what the heck i am going to be doing here in rural Tanzania - I can now tell you. I am co-ordinating a study which is going to have a community based intervention and a facility improvement strategy. Our study involves developing the interventions through facility and community consultation, AND evaluating their effect on health behaviours of mothers, quality of care in facilities and neonatal survival. So the main new bit for me is actually being involved in developing the interventions. So there you go.
Right, time for me to wrap up. I'll do the promo for holidays in the region once I have been out and tried a few things. In the mean time, lots of love to the family, esp Mark. And I hope to hear from folks soon.
Suze
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