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Tuesday Sep 04, 2007

Tumemaliza kazi....KABISA!

well, i fly back to England on friday, so enjoying my last few days in country. We finished work yesterday and had a ceremony to celebrate, which was all very nice, we saw our top boss for the very first time and i entertained everyone with sum dancing up to the high table to collect my certificate...i decided it was all far to formal, it was all for and because of us, so i was gunna enjoy it! the volunteers are now slowly dispersing to travel, and to fly home. I'm going to struggle hugely returning back to the UK after such an amazing 8 months. i truly feel at home here, I have FINALLY got the language down, and now can chat away quite happily, leaving friends will be incredably difficult, i never thought it would be so easy to grow so close to people that are from total different cultures. vilage life ended with a huge and succesful tamasha (like a festival) with music, soda's, food, plays, songs and an italian monk called shamassi. it was hard work to organise and prepare, but it paid off, now we have to wait and see how many people test in the regular VCT visit sept 9th. I will be sad to leave, but yesterday made us all feel hugely proud. one of the SPW staff read out all our figures for this years programme. over 700 people now know their HIV status, somthing close to 2500 girls and 3000 boys in secondary alone have attended our lessons, and i cant remember primary numbers. it really made us realise that our work made a difference to those communities, and in a way i didnt really realise what i was doing until I'd finished! so thats it, goodbye to Tanzania and hello to university of Birmingham.

em x

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