I think it's love...

1. Puppy Love!! My new pup Tusker revived after I got him yesterday laden with fleas and minyoo. eww.

2. It might be love? Wedding of Agnes's brother in December. I get treated like a VIP at these events...sit in front, first for food...even made my first several sentence speach at this event: "Sasa, mmepenndeeeeeza. Baadaye kidogo, mtakuwa na watoto mzema kabisa. Watasoma nyingi, na wataenda shule ya secondari. Mtapanda mparachichi mingi, na mtakuwa na maishi nzuri, nzuri sana." ...there was a standing ovation. Incidently, this will be the speach I make at every wedding from now on. Translation: "Right now, you are beautiful. In a little while you will have whole/complete/very good children. They will study alot, and they will go to highschool. You will plant many avacado trees, and your life will be good, very good."

3. Permaculture instructional video watching on a borrowed portable DVD player in my living room.

4. My WONDERFUL counterpart David teaching compost (to use instead of pricy fertilizer).

5. We built a beautiful compost pile.

6. This is why I don't have many pictures of me in the vil...after several instructional sessions Agnes still doesn't understand the concept of capturing the whole picture...I'm in the back of the pile, black shirt, skirt.

7. And then we dug...double dug. Permaculture is a form of bio-intensive gardening designed to help sick people create a garden that produces enough food, with a good variety, without having to use alot of space, or trudge all the way to the shamba (farm, far far away).

8. Everyone helped...here we are covering over our corn and bean seeds...

9. well, everyone except this little boy who was fascinated by the camera. They are ALL this cute. Look at those eyes.

10. And then we made a 'tanzanian style' garden bed. The one on the right is permaculture, the left is Tz style. In a few weeks, then a few months we'll see if the permaculture is worth all that work...I hope it works out!


Yup, so there's a couple shots of my villagers and I...and my new pup. There's a lot of love in these picks! Happy Valentines Day.