things I will miss
Seeing Kili
The purple flower trees
The ‘Christmas’ trees
Those flowers that smell amazing
The huge pterodactyl-like storks that perch in the trees
Mango trees, papaya trees, avocado trees
Pineapple season, avocado season, mango season
Pineapple slices on the street for 50 shillings (less than 5 cents)
The smell of mahindi choma (grilled corn)
Chapatti na maharage (chapatti and beans)
Chai ya maziwa (tea with milk)
Chai break (10-11 am)
The Azam ‘trucks’ (bicycle ice cream carts)
The sound of the rain when it really rains
Hearing Kiswahili, speaking Kiswahili
People’s mannerisms and little expressions (the taxi hand, the ‘njoo’ hand, Shikamoo, Marahaba, people yelling into their phones, ‘eeeee’, JAMANI, yesu!, alah!...)
The salimia (greeting) process
People calling just to greet me
Mage and Karin
The quirks of Mama Ngowi, John Kessy, James, Raphael, Stigidi
The masses of school girls walking to/from church on Sunday
The impromptu dancing/singing whenever there’s music, the Tanzanian dance
The mosque’s calls to prayer
Sharing tables with strangers at lunch
Eating with my hands
Kiti moto on a Sunday afternoon
Weddings – the goat cake, the cake ceremony, the gift dance, the brass band in the pick-up truck
Kids screaming and running away from me…it’s funny
Traditional drumming and dancing
The crazy man that walks down the middle of the road wearing no clothes
Konyagi and Bitter Lemon
Stoney Tangawizi, Fanta Passion, fresh passion juice
Kangas and kitenge the women wear, all the bright colors, crazy patterns, and sassy messages
The short-sleeved one-color suits the men wear
The colorful shukas the Maasai wear
Women carrying everything on their heads, from handbags to buckets of water to huge planks covered with bananas
Babies on backs, wrapped up in kitenges and knit hats
The hairdos – creative braiding designs, the wigs, dreadlocks
Funny English – on signs, in newspapers, that people speak
The geckoes and orange and blue lizards
The handshakes
Bongo flava music, taraab music
The street boys trying to be gangsta, the ridiculous American slang they use
The bibis (grandmas) sitting around and drinking out of buckets of mbege (local brew made of millet and fermented bananas)
Getting clothes made at the tailor
The beautiful people
The African body image: big=good, especially the butt, so have some more chapatti :)
The purple flower trees
The ‘Christmas’ trees
Those flowers that smell amazing
The huge pterodactyl-like storks that perch in the trees
Mango trees, papaya trees, avocado trees
Pineapple season, avocado season, mango season
Pineapple slices on the street for 50 shillings (less than 5 cents)
The smell of mahindi choma (grilled corn)
Chapatti na maharage (chapatti and beans)
Chai ya maziwa (tea with milk)
Chai break (10-11 am)
The Azam ‘trucks’ (bicycle ice cream carts)
The sound of the rain when it really rains
Hearing Kiswahili, speaking Kiswahili
People’s mannerisms and little expressions (the taxi hand, the ‘njoo’ hand, Shikamoo, Marahaba, people yelling into their phones, ‘eeeee’, JAMANI, yesu!, alah!...)
The salimia (greeting) process
People calling just to greet me
Mage and Karin
The quirks of Mama Ngowi, John Kessy, James, Raphael, Stigidi
The masses of school girls walking to/from church on Sunday
The impromptu dancing/singing whenever there’s music, the Tanzanian dance
The mosque’s calls to prayer
Sharing tables with strangers at lunch
Eating with my hands
Kiti moto on a Sunday afternoon
Weddings – the goat cake, the cake ceremony, the gift dance, the brass band in the pick-up truck
Kids screaming and running away from me…it’s funny
Traditional drumming and dancing
The crazy man that walks down the middle of the road wearing no clothes
Konyagi and Bitter Lemon
Stoney Tangawizi, Fanta Passion, fresh passion juice
Kangas and kitenge the women wear, all the bright colors, crazy patterns, and sassy messages
The short-sleeved one-color suits the men wear
The colorful shukas the Maasai wear
Women carrying everything on their heads, from handbags to buckets of water to huge planks covered with bananas
Babies on backs, wrapped up in kitenges and knit hats
The hairdos – creative braiding designs, the wigs, dreadlocks
Funny English – on signs, in newspapers, that people speak
The geckoes and orange and blue lizards
The handshakes
Bongo flava music, taraab music
The street boys trying to be gangsta, the ridiculous American slang they use
The bibis (grandmas) sitting around and drinking out of buckets of mbege (local brew made of millet and fermented bananas)
Getting clothes made at the tailor
The beautiful people
The African body image: big=good, especially the butt, so have some more chapatti :)
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