The past couple weeks have been marked by some sadness for MIHV. The district medical officer, who happens to be the uncle of one of our staff, passed away this week. The sister of another co-worker passed away this week as well. For the wake and burial I wore traditional African clothes. I thought everyone would get a kick out of it, so some photos are below. Wakes in Africa last for several days, day and night, and women are responsible for cooking, so I learned how to cook dishes called pilau and kichumbali.

Other than that I continue to work on preparations for drug shopkeepers and MAISHA training. I am also excited to help Karla with a newspaper article for her class. I am hoping she can publish it somewhere and people can hear about some of the cool stuff we're doing here. I'm leaving for Dar Es Salaam tomorrow to go to a friend's graudation and see the sights. After I return I'll be going out into the field to a village called Mang'ola Barazani for drug shopkeeper training. Then I'll be travelling to Southern Tanzania to visit a hospital and school that are "friends of MIHV" and see if the hospital is a good place for medical volunteers to work. On our way back from Southern Tanzania we will visit Zanzibar for a few days. That will get me pretty close to time to come back home for a while, but if there's time I'd like to climb Mt. Meru as well, we'll see how it goes.