Tanzania seems to lack organisation which although sometimes freeing, can be rather irritating, and on this occasion bizarre.
Last night everyone was looking at the moon.
Ramadan is strictly controlled by the moon, and so in waiting to see when the month of Ramadan would finish and the celebration of Eid begin, we were looking at the moon. In Tanzania Eid is a two day national holiday, and it starts whenever the new moon is seen. So if it appeared last night, then we are off for two days. If not, we wait until tomorrow night to look.
We didn’t stay awake and so went to work this morning looking for signs of life or signs of holiday.
The moon isn’t ready yet.
So we continue with work. Helen and Paul came over to school for the morning and saw an impromptu assembly. This morning was also the English mid-term, so they had a go at that too.
Following that and with the money on the moon being seen tomorrow, they decided that we would finish school now. No hanging around.
The exam finished at 9:45am.
School finished at 10:15am.
I spent the rest of the day marking papers before heading over to the clinic. I found Helen and Paul busily organising, tidying and labelling all manner of drugs and things.
This evening we went to Faraja’s house, a lady from church, for dinner. We had a lovely meal of western and traditional dishes. I particularly liked the pumpkin leaf dish but it seems I was the only one.
We are now heading to bed with the prospect of an unexpected bank holiday weekend ahead!
Oh and enjoy this photo. At least some of Armorel’s cleanliness messages get through.
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