Swahili Class

I have settled in at the language school and we have started Swahili classes. There are some amazing people here studying Swahili in our class. There are:

- A very sweet couple from Denmark who plan on working as IT support for the Danish churches in Tanzania after they learn Swahili. They are really nice and they speak fluent Danish, English, and German and are conversational in French and Tai.
- A priest and a nun from India who are starting a secondary school in Northern Tanzania.
- A young woman from Scotland who has been working in Kenya for a year and a half.
- A woman from Eritrea who was been working for an organization in Kenya for a while.
- A middle-aged man from Italy who manages a Catholic hospital. He already knows a lot of Swahili because he doesn't speak much English so Swahili is his primary form communication.
- An American girl who is doing a study aboard program for her BA degree.
- An American pastor and his wife, and their adopted 3 year old son from Kenya.
- And another young American couple who are extremely nice and who plan to work in rural Tanzania for the next several years.

In addition to the language school students there is a very nice girl from Germany who is volunteering in the school’s kindergarten for one year.

There are 3 people who can only stay for the 2 months (versus the typical 4 months) so we were placed into our own group. We are going to try to get through as many lessons as possible in the time we have.