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Jambo
 We left for Bagomoyo this morning on the express bus and arrived at the Livingston Hotel where we are treating ourselves to a night and day at this lovely beach resort. William used to work here and recommended it to us. It is lovely and has high speed internet. I might even be able to send you some photos tomorrow! The other day at the internet non-cafe (which had three old Compaq computers on a dial up service), I met a young woman who was in the Peace Corp teaching Science at a Secondary school in Soni. We got to chatting and it turns out she and I went to the same high school (just thirty years difference in time). Pretty funny! We saw only 5 other white people during the 5 days we were in Lushoto. Oh, another funny sight walking along the road to Lushoto, a Masai dressed in traditional garb, carrying a long spear as a staff, wearing white plastic sandals and talking on a cell phone. Will sign off for now but will try and write one more note tomorrow after we explore Bagomoyo.
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Oh oh, slight change in plans
 What happened was, we went to the bus station at 8:30 on Wed. morning to catch our 9:00 bus. After much discussion between our cab driver and the ticket office staff, they tracked down a young man who explained to us that the 9:00 bus left at 8:00. We had missed it. He suggested we take the non-express bus that left at 9. We bought tickets and got on the bus filled with people, produce, livestock and luggage. I asked the driver how long the trip would take. When he told me 10 hours (which I have learned would really be 12), we changed our minds and decided to go the next day on the express bus.
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Joyce
 Saturday morning we packed up, bid Ibra good bye and the driver took us to the "Luxury" bus to Lushoto we thought we had tickets on. As in Alice's Wonderland, nothing is as you think it will be. Fortunately it was a rather cool day and the sky was overcast because we were packed in like sardines for the 7 hour trip that was suppose to take 5. The "express" bus stopped 6 times to take on vendors to sell snacks. The last 20 K the express bus turned into a city bus. We were picked up in town by the Lodge driver, loaded up and started up the hill. Uh-oh, a rather large delivery truck was hung up on a concrete bank blocking the road to the hotel. A crowd gathered and soon the driver had plenty of advice and support from the community. The truck was unloaded, a wrench was rounded up and with much cranking, pushing, yelling and laughing the truck got unstuck and off to one side to be reloaded.
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Greetings!
Jambo,
 Did I ever mention that the Dadas (teacher assistants) don't speak English? Two of the new teachers don’t speak much either and do not let us know when they are not understanding what we are saying. They are wonderful people and very good with the children. The teachers help translate but we definitely have had some communication breakdowns. We sent them home on Wednesday with an assignment - think of an idea for a work task, which we were going to make on Thurs. They all came the next day with homemade toys. The toys are wonderful! I took a picture of everyone with the toy they made to show you when I get back. On Thursday all of the staff circulated through to see how Ava and Alia were teaching work systems. They were impressed that their most challenging students were in one spot for the whole 20 minute time period (we combined work with PECS and some 1 to 1). After school, everyone got to work on making tasks and 16 were made by the time we shoved them out the door at 5:30.
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Habari!
 Wow, this week has flown by. We have been practicing, practicing, practicing all week. Thankfully the children are responding to the strategies which we hope will fuel the teachers for the hard work ahead of them. We will make work tasks tomorrow afternoon then meet with the teachers. On Friday we do a wrap-up.
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