Homeless no more!

Rejoice! We have found a house and after a few minor repairs it will be just lovely!

Everything about it is wonderful, our neighbours work for German Aid, our landlay is a priest, we can walk to work and... it has an extra bedroom! So you should all start booking your tickets now to come vist me. Now it does not have consistent power or water, and because it was sitting empty for so long before we came the ants and giant spiders took over in places, but that will all change soon. It has to - the ants bite. We have declared war and despite ample supplies of DOOM bug killer and many large brooms so far the ants are winning. The spiders however, seem to have clued in that they are no longer welcome. Which is good because I googled poisonous spiders of Africa and suddenly wished I hadn't.

Now because we lack certain ammenities such as electricity we decided to invest in a gas cooker so we could at least make dinner in the dark. Last night we decided it was time to start eating in, so we bought the cooker, bought groceries and went home. Turns out that in Tanzania you really get what you paid for - our bottom of the line gas cooker is just that. Our gas cooker adventure started when we tried to put the thing together. It seemed simple enough, step 1: put gas in cooker, step 2, attached support ring to bottom of cooker to keep gas in place, step 3 screw on burner, piercing gas canister, step 4 cook. We never made it to step 4. At step 3 gas started coming out of every orfice in the cooker at high pressure. We thought, oh maybe it's just excess that needs to leak off, it keeps going, and going, and going, and we get light headed and then we run outside with the gas cooker, which is now excruciatingly cold due to the kerosene leaking out all over everything. Anyways, we sat on our deck and watchew the gas leak out and kill ants (bonus!) for the next 20 minutes or so. We had sandwiches for dinner.