dodry's travels

on the nearby lake where we took one of these boats and went out onto the lake. plus lots of boys swimming there... 

here is my wonderful bicycle made in china. people on the street are always (aus dem h�uschen) when they see me with it.... they even call me chinese... 

hello again.
i got a bicycle.... pic follows some other time. so yeah. i'm getting settled down. i also moved places and got homely at a mission station based here in ikwiriri. the place is nice and i feel safe and ok. today i said good bye to snehal and christie two women from CDC that workes on a drug adherence study... not much else at the mo. i'm progressing with my work. met with one village leader yesterday and informed him about my project... this went very well. and i also got to see a bit of the surroundings. it is very beautiful here. very rugged and not too much influence can be felt from the big city. at the same time i can benefit from good infrastructure in terms of internet access and mobile phone network....

daria, christie (CDC), Ren 

my room at mission (3 us dollars per night) 

daladala from mbagala to ikwiriri 

two girls at mbagala bus station. they were really happy when they saw themselves in the camera 

that's how rufiji district looks like 

some house on the way from dar to ikwiriri 

main road of jaribu, THE place to buy good and cheap fruit 

james (our faithful driver), herry and david (two impact household survey supervisors)  

bungu dispensary 

this is my little nephew. isn't he nice? i am looking forward to holding him in my hands!! 

hello my friends.
since this morning 6.16 swiss time i'm officially an aunt!!!

my nephew is called sean silas! i am excited and also scared because it seems that the delivery was quite difficult. they had to do cesarian in the end... i hope imelda will recover quickly....
i'm happy though that through cell phone i was able to witness the whole process somewhat...

otherwise same stuff.. trying to get things going with my research... :)

sunset over the rufiji river 

barak, me, juma and sebastian before leaving with the ferry 

daria is doing what she's supposed to do. and peter is doing what he's supposed to do too :) 

last pic of stonetown 

bi marayam and halima saying goodbye 

this is the last group pic. barak, me, juma and sebastian. a german friend i met here

bashira and me having henna paintings done

i'm in rufiji now since 3 days and slowly getting used to the business. i'm supposed to work on my ma thesis. but at the moment it's more like a time of going to meetings watching people being trained, staple report forms etc.
ok , that's it for the time being.. just checking whether this blog works...