Simple Splendor
I guess sporadic blogging is the best I can hope for here, so my apologies that I'm not more consistent. Most days, when I'm away from work, I find myself wanting to be anywhere but behind my computer. However, I made a promise that I would post an update, so here we go. I'm still living in Northern Tanzania, approaching my 8th month of living in a constant whirl of chaos and comfort where some days things are hard to comprehend and some days things are hard to communicate, but every day I'm growing a little more confident. Intercultural communication is rough and my Kiswahili isn't amazing, so there's definitely still room for improvement. However, for the time being, this is my home and it's about time it started feeling like it. I left East Africa for the first time since my arrival in December for my holiday. The meltdown I had when I stepped off the plane into the mayhem that was Amsterdam's airport at Christmastime was comparable to the meltdow