Well that's me been here only 2 weeks but it feels like double that at least.

I think the boredom and the realisation that I am officially unemployed is now starting to get to me.

I haven't really done very much in my 2 weeks here so far so I don't really have much to write but figured I should probably write something.

My days during my first week here were spent doing lots of housework to start with, but that soon got boring. I watch the occasional movie, if I can find one that's any good on out DSTV (African version of Sky, which isn't overly great and costs a fortune) or I read my book (just finished Charlotte Bingham "the magic hour", and now started the Fifty Shades trilogy) or I can walk to the shops as there are several (food) shops easily within walking distance, and as its still kinda winter here it's not really too hot for walking in the sun yet. Shopping is expensive if you want to buy Imported brands from the UK/US, so it's often cheaper to just eat out, although that is getting a bit old now as I actually do like to cook for Paul, although we still don't have our freight out here yet and so I don't have all my kitchen pots/pans/dishes/utensils that I am used to, so it can limit me as to what I can make sometimes.

Last week, being my second week, I went to a "Corona Coffee Morning" on Tuesday at 10am, which is basically a group of expat women who get together every week to catch up and to help people like me who are new to Dar and need a bit of guidance. There is a lady there that sells eggs from her own chickens, so I am going to get nice fresh eggs every week now, so I am happy with that. On Friday of last week I met a group of ladies who go walking 3 times a week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7am before it gets too hot. Of course my running trainers are in our freight boxes back in the UK do I had to walk in my pumps, which inevitably gave me blisters. I was going to get new trainers this weekend past but we ran out of time, so I don't think I will go walking again this week, but hopefully next weekend we can get to the shopping centre and buy some trainers so I can start doing that 3 times a week! And Wednesday of this week I am getting to visit the orphanage where a lot of expat wives give their time to help out, so I am looking forward to that, although I have no idea what to expect!!

Yesterday we went about 45 miles in land to see a place called Bagamoyo, where there was supposed to be a few touristy things we could do. By the time we got there it was 1pm because we went surfing in the morning and then went for a late breakfast, then had to shower etc. We firstly stopped at Bagamoyo Country Club for some lunch, which took over an hour for them to get our food to us then about half hour after we'd eaten and asked for the bill before they managed to actually work out what the bill was. We then headed off (about half 3) to see some crocs, totally awesome except I had nightmares last night that there were crocodiles everywhere trying to eat me!! But it was cool to actually see real life crocodiles. Then we went to some old ruins but we weren't happy with what they wanted to charge us to go in so we just headed off, drove through some really poor villages, mud houses, Paul saw a little girl playing with her dolly, which was a plank of wood with baby clothes on it, he said she was cradling it like a real baby, how sad! I just wanted to go get her a real dolly!! But then in the next village people may have lived in mud huts but they had mobile phones and laptops, so no quite as poor as they appear. Anyway we couldn't find anything else we planned to see so we headed back to Dar... So it was a bit of a waste of a day, except from getting to see the crocs!!

Well that's really all I have to say so far, as I said, not much has really been going on in my little world so I will write again when I have something interesting to say!

Over and out.