Maintaining Momentum in Moshi

The past 10 days have been packed with activity in Moshi and at A-5.  John flew to the US for two meetings in Atlanta the night of the marathon.  It was pretty crazy and would have been horrible except that the manager at the airport managed to get him a comfort economy seat amidst the crowded plane, and he was upgraded flying over the ocean to Atlanta.  He returned for exactly 36 hours. His luggage did not arrive until the morning he was flying back to the US, and his dirty clothes had to be washed, dried and ironed before he left.  Sadly, the power went out and remained out until just before he left!  So solemnly I carried the ironing board and the clothes up 4 long flights of stairs to the Mepi office to iron them and get them packed while he was connected to conference calls right up to the moment he left.

I carried the ironing board all the way to the top

Charlie on his perch

The rainy season seems to have arrived with rain for the last 3 days.  This makes running interesting, and very muggy.  My rooster, Charlie seems to have found the way to deal with the wet and mugginess but learning to fly to the top of the coup.  The first time he did it, we all cheered, and now he loves to look down from his new little perch and revel in his girls.  

We got a new carving from Lawi, the Rasta lady who guards our house.  She is fierce!

Peyton, Malcolm, Lyn & John after one gin & tonic

We have had our friend Peyton who has been with us for the past month.  Sadly, he leaves tonight and will leave a big hole in the OB/GYN training program.  We look forward to his return soon.  We also added another great couple to the A-5 crowd, Malcolm and his wife Lyn.  They are tons of fun and the time has not been dull here in Moshi.  Malcolm and John trained together so it was a happy reunion.

The post-marathon party apparently went on and on and Jan and Alex who celebrated their birthdays at the party, were jolly before John had to extract Jan to fly to the states.  

Tobias (our KCMC PT director) Tina (fellow choir member)

Jan and Alex celebrate birthdays

Andrew...always enjoys Moshi!

Nikoli ran the half marathon

Jan's askari and his new taxi!

Now we find the time flying as we prepare ourselves for the next weeks ahead.  Hopefully John’s trip to the states will be filled with adventure and praise for our project, and we can move forward to the next project at hand.  So Mama Mzungu is holding house and hearth together.

Trish at Mama Mzungu Bar