Masasi 4/8/13

On Sunday 4^th August we visited Masasi, a bigger town 90km from Mtama. We needed to meet a Fundi here (Fundi is what they call the workmen/ handymen) who had worked on a previous school project. The previous library project that we saw was really good – they had painted the outside blue and we could just about see through the windows what had been done on the inside. Unfortunately our Project Coordinator Avitus could not get a key for us to go inside. They had used plastic chairs in their library to save money.

We were pretty hungry after the 2 hour dala dala journey so went to a pub to eat. Here I had goat for the first time! It was delicious; I’m not going to lie. We had it with rice and vegetables and it was better than anything in Mtama.

We stocked up on apples, oranges and bought a couple of bananas – I also went a bit crazy and bought 40 rolls of toilet paper for 15,000 shillings (£6) to share with the group. Got my teabags also, and some AfriCafe coffee for Steff. All in all a good days shop. We all secretly wished we had a town like Masasi at the end of the road, as it had so much more in it, but for a 4 hour round trip it’s not something we were going to do all the time!

Avitus at his library in Masasi

The busyness of the dala dala! Eeek. Hectic.