Question time. To see if you’ve been paying attention …
(Cheats will find some answers in the pix I’ve attached).
1. Shona is in the process of visiting how many Tanzanian single mothers to find our 16 house-mums for Kesho Leo Children’s Village?
a) 2 - She’s found it hard to locate vulnerable women and children in Sinon village.
b) 76 plus – all of whom rocked up to last month’s Kesho Community Day.
c) 0 – we’ve decided it’s all too hard and we’re going home. See Yas Soon!
2. Corky’s volunteer village huts are:
a) bricked up to the roofing level, as of this week
b) being washed away in the torrential rain (not really but only b/c we tarp them daily!)
c) eagerly awaited on by new arrivals Ben & Kels, who are currently sharing a room with Shona!
3. Daz is desperately keen to get what on the Kesho Leo building site?
a) volunteer carpenters
b) traffic lights
c) volunteer carpenters (know any? Contact them for us please!)
4. Kels brought plenty of good stuff with her but the most appreciated is:
a) her casual-sexy-in-Africa outfits
b) Ben
c) our straw hats
5. Shona, one extremely fit individual, has just added which notch to her mountain climbing career?
a) Mt Kosciusko
b) Mt Aconcagua
c) Mt Meru
5. Ben, normally comfortable tapping away at creating websites, has taken up:
a) writing his own travel blog for Lonely Planet - www.lonelyplanet.com/blogs/travel_blog/2007/12/road-to-arusha.html
b) helping Daz build our banana-leaf wall showers…
c) both of the above
6. Rebecka’s dog (for nobody else will officially accept ownership – although Kelsey seems to be warming to the idea) has achieved the following this week:
a) learnt to chase the annoying hens off the concrete (so they can’t ippsy on it), launching himself off all fours, flying spread-eagled through the air to land on a rooster and scare himself by his own success
b) attended two tai chi classes run by Darren, turning figure-eights between attendees’ legs and growling as they tried to hold poses
c) both of the above.
7. This week Corky, in attempting to convince Shona to pack her sleeping bag into a plastic bag to keep it protected from ice, during her mountain climb, said:
a) “Shona, you’d better pack your sleeping bag in a plastic bag or it will get wet and then you’ll be very cold.”
b) “Shona, have you considered what the thermal properties of wet down might be?”
c) I know Corky personally – so it’s definitely option “b)”.
8. The Kesho Crew received their first ever in-country donation thanks to a lovely Aussie who stumbled across us… The legendary gal parted with:
a) 40 Tanzanian Shillings ($0.40AUD)
b) some great advice, but no dosh
c) a whopping $300USD – a fantastic amount to go towards officially opening our USD bank account with. Yeeebah!
9. Kelsey has begun the mammoth like process of getting FWS a USD bank account (less fluctuation in the currency). This process is:
a) very simple – the Tanzanians require hardly any forms or photos or resumes or references or passport copies or work visas or proof or residential address or certificates of NGO status in Tanzania at all. Total breeze!
b) excellent for the environment – hardly any wastage of paper at all.
c) Booooooooooring, laborious, trying on the patience, but unfortunately, kinda necessary.
10. After presenting Kesho’s water-harvesting system to three local Rotary Clubs this week, Corky plans to next speak to Rotary about:
a) Human ippsies and how our composting loos will deal with them
b) How many different shapes your mum can cut your vegemite toast into, in the 80s, when you are home from school, sick.
c) The thermal properties of wet down.
Goodnight, see you next week!
beck
