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January 12, 2008 by Stephen Day.

Hi everybody!

 I am in Iringa, Tanzania, which is bascially due south of Dodoma.  I will be here for two and a half weeks learning about Kiswhaili and trying to use it.  I am having a great time.  It has been wonderful to see a different part of the country and meet otehr missionaries from around the world.  The climate is much different than in Dodoma.  It is much cooler and wetter here.  It has rained nearly everyday for a number of hours.  In the last two weeks I was in Dodoma it didn’t rain once. 

If you need to reach me here email works well, but you can also get my temporary phone number by emailing my parents.  I look foward to uploading the pictures I am taking once I get back to Msalato.  It is very beautiful here and the people are wonderful.

I have been plesantly surprised at how much Swhaili I am retaining and grasping.  My previous efforts at learing foreign languages have not been all that successful (Spanish in junior and high school and biblical Greek in seminary).  I work one on one with a teacher for about five hours a day and spend a few more hours each day doing homework and reviewing other work. 

I hope to post a more detailed account of what I am doing here soon.  I miss having “easy” access to the internet, like I have at Msalato. 

I hope everyone is having a wonderful New Year!!  I would like to take this opportunity to thank the wonderful people at St. Timothy’s in the Valley in Hurricane, WV for their very generous Christmas offering. 

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