tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609424440381386554.post5514870872395978495..comments2023-12-24T09:46:52.681-08:00Comments on Carnivale Selah: Confrontation and Desirecafe selavyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15326753057795689263noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609424440381386554.post-4660066263150750292016-11-19T06:05:57.549-08:002016-11-19T06:05:57.549-08:00Desire to come to Tanzania, of course. Wish I had...Desire to come to Tanzania, of course. Wish I had/could. Make a trip to Zanzibar. There is desire, and then there is envy. Aieeeee.cafe selavyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15326753057795689263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609424440381386554.post-54059579555726457662016-11-18T20:50:42.350-08:002016-11-18T20:50:42.350-08:00"We are all so full of desire.."
How ...<br />"We are all so full of desire.." <br /><br />How true. I've fallen in love with new people and places here in Tanzania. I am talking about buying a plot of land and running a small guest house. <br /><br />I've had dinner in the houses of people I met last time I was here and have plans for dinner in houses of new friends next time. I climbed the first part of Mount Meru with my friend and guide from 2014 - he has made the first part of a dream a reality buy acquiring his own safari jeep. <br /><br /> I have fallen in love with another guide (of course) in the new southern Tanzania discovered this time. <br /><br />Tanzania has a new president that everyone is so excited and hopeful about - despite years of deep pocket corruption the people feel like "this time we might be doing something good even though it will be slowly, slowly. <br /><br />Did you know that if you acquire a gun here in Tanzania - you must report every shot you take with that gun? Shootings are rare like the Rhino. <br /><br />I've visited two schools (one private where kids are working on projects such as gender equality and land management - making presentations on laptops and one government - with 160 little children in one classroom 5 to a bench with out enough books or even a proper "football". I was gutted the rest of the day but had to remind myself that at the very best - the children had a school and there are plans for a Nursery school. <br /><br />The bartender here on our last leg - on the coast of the Indian Ocean took Sam (my son) and I up to his village yesterday. Sam is heading up today to get his hair cut at a local barber and perhaps have a drink at the village pub (where women are still not allowed). I wish I could bring some of the fresh honey - now poured in reused Konyagi liquor bottles - so dark and sweet. <br /><br />For me, it is not now otherness at all but rather the exhilaration of discovering the sweet sameness of our marrow deep desires of understanding, acceptance and love.<br /><br />I'm coming back to the USA ... this time. :)<br /><br /><br /><br />Lisa N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15345432363679634642noreply@blogger.com