Hello Guys

Well we are all here safely. It took 24 hours to get here but it is well worth it. We got a guided tour round Dar on Saturday. Dar is quite busy but there are so many people standing around chatting, they take life so much slower and relaxed then us!!! We went to a fish market which was the busiest place in the whole of the city, adn the smelliest.

On sunday we went to a traditional Gospel church. There were atleast 500 people in the congregation. It started off well, with typical gospel singing, very energetic, cheerful and loud, even a few verses in English. Then it began to drag after an hour and a half. They like to make a whole day of it, it also takes longer because the sermons are delivered in English then translated into Swahili. We left after 3 hours becuase we had football training, in preparation for our first match tonight!!!

Where we are playing football is amazing, it is a focal point for the whole district, its where people come to socialise in the evening. Everytime we missed a shot, we had a bunch of litte kids go runign to get the ball, abviously they were doing this a lot.

We had a bbq at the Foresters in the evening and learned a bit more about rural Tanzania. Dar is really quite modern, with its cars and tap water and as i have been told how hectic it is. I think its going to be very different when we go to Moshi next week.

I had better go we have got some haggling to do,
Si & the rest of the guys