Helene_Tansania

Today was our 3 day here in Dar es Salaam and after 2 days of sightseeing and getting to know the city we went to visit the Kiluvya secondary school today. The city is very different from our's and the Tanzanian culture is very intresting. The first 2 days were full of impressions but we had rather superficial meetings than real cultural exchange. The atmosphere of Dar es Salaam is very vibrant and dynamic but also very loud and stuffed. I'm impressed how openminded the Tansanian's are and how easy you get in contact with other people. The visit at Kiluvya secondary school was amazing. The school building is of course very simple but Mister Mattlinger said it improved extremely within the last 5 years. We were very warm welcomed and I felt comfortable from the first moment on (Mimi mwenyewe walifurahia sana). The Unesco group of the school and a few other pupils had a long and fruitful exchange of cultural ideas and rituals with us and we compared Germany to Tansania. I learned a lot and this time was very interesting for me. After that the school grounds were shown to us and we could talk to the students for a while. We had a very tasty lunch and unfortunately had to leave then. I'm looking forward to the next days and I'm exited what experiences will follow. Greetings to everyone Jonas Beyerlein

We are now for 3 days in Tanzania and I have a lot of different impressions. We arrived in Daressalam at three oclock at night, and the luggage of julian was unfortunately lost. Our Hotel Jambo Inn is very beautiful and there are lots of paintings at the wall. The first day we just went through daressalam and organized some stuff. Daressalam is directly at the indian ocean and it is SO beautiful. The second day we wnt to the national museum which was quite interesting. after the sightseeing mira luisa lea and i decided sponteniouslz\y to visit a beautishop to make our hair to cornroes, after a lcomplicated search we found our babershop and there was a big baba sitting and let his sister or wife or something wash his feet. we traded out a price (which was a little too high) and i started to risk my hair;-) now we all have cornroes on our right side and i love it. unfortunately we arrived too late at dinner and got a little anger but i think now its okay. today we went to our partner school, kiluvya. when we arrived a nice breakfast waited for us, and a big discussion round with the pupils followed. we discussed about global warming, religion, familys, politics and even about love affairs at school, so nearly about everything which is different in tanzania and germany. they even sang a swahili song for us! it was very nice and interesting. while the long discussion, i got a new best friend :-) his name is Issaya and he asked loads of complicated questions with his friend to me. after the discussion we visited all the classes and they showed us the huge break place and their places where they play football and everything. In the end we even got lunch from school which was also very good. Mzuri sana! in the end we left very tired and happy, we all got known many new nice people. today we got the information that we all will t\stay alone in a family which is very exciting and i am really looking forward to nthis! One second ago the airport called, julian gets his luggage this night!! miracles still happen ;-)
In two days the safari starts which is soooo nice!!!
Altogether i am very happy and thankful to be here, its such a big difference to germany. and only three days passed and i already feel like beeing here for much longer.
See You!

Jambo!
This is my third day here in dar es salam.
Im so happy to be here!This city is so exciting and amazing.
On our first day here we discoverd the city and relaxed from our long journey.
I`ve never been to such a big city. When we walked trough the streets, full of people, they were all looking at us , because we are white. And at every corner the people talked to you and were very amembel. With the attention to sell you things.
Yesterday we went to the national museum and on our way back we went to very nice drapery shops were we bought kangas.
In the afternoon Charlotte, Mira, Lea and me went to babas beauty shop, to make our hair. That was really funny. The m k Today we went to the Kiluvya highschool. We were so nicely welcomed. And we had a very intresting discussion with the Kiluvya Students about the diffrences in education, politics, religion and many other themes. I really enjoyed talking with the students, they were so amenabled.

Im so happy to be here , we are having a great time together!

Jambo!
Our third day here in Tanzania was definitely the most exiting one for me: our first visit to Kiluvya Secondary School. We spent sunday and monday in Dar Es Salaam and got a good overview and impression of this beautiful city, we bought some kangas, sat at the sea and drank a coke, went to the barber shop of BIG BOSS to get some cornroes, visited the national museum and tried on our Swahili skills. Mambo? Poa. Habari? Mzuri. Some basics are always really helpful.
So a HUGE ASANTE SANA to Kiluvya Secondary School for this hearty and warm welcoming (Karibu!)
The kids at Kiluvya were so opened for our questions and asked us really interesting questions, so we could have a great exchange of impressions, differences and similarities of Tanzania and Germany. And thanks again for your nice song, I really enjoyed listening to the Swahili song about beautiful Tanzania - it was so beautiful!
After our dialogue on education, global warming, politics, religion and family the students showed us their school and we had the chance to get to know them a bit better and exchange facebook and email adresses, so we can keep in touch.
I don't know what to say, but it was a great day and I am sooo looking forward to our projects with Form 4 and the UNESCO Group, because all of you from Kiluvya seem so interested in our world and politics and the environment, so we'll have a lot of fun and learn a lot while discussing and working on tourism, global warming and rituals!

Hi, I am Julian Baehr from Helene-Lange-Gymnasium. Our first day at Kiluvya was great. It is my first trip to Africa so it was pretty hard to imagine how school, education and life differs from the European. We were welcomed overwhelmingly nice and the teachers and students were unbelievably kind. It was a great experience and I am really looking forward to spend more time with you!!
Yours Julian

(This should be posted at the blogger-page of Kiluvia High School but THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE!!!!)

After arriving on sunday 25th in the early morning everyone catched his luggage beside of Julian who unfortunately only received his guest presents.
On the next day we started to discover the city which was really interesting because most Tanzanians are not used to such a big group of white people in their city. So many of them greet you and try to start a conversation with you. But it's likely that the intention behind this conversation is to sell you any amount of pictures or "kangas".
Daressalam is a very lifely city and the great thing about the traffic system is that there is no. Wheter there is a red traffic light or people on the street the cars are just honk but don't really brake.
Today we had our first visit at Kiluvya Highschool and it was pretty impressing how warmly the school welcomed us. It seemed as if everyone was happy to see us and they all wanted to take pictures with us. Very interesting was the discussion/conversation with a group of pupils over topics like education, religion, family and politics. It was nice to hear the opinion from a completly different perspective and I was surprised about the immense knowledge about for example global warming.
Now I'm really looking forward to the homestay because we allready got known to many students and they were all very nice so it's going to be an experience I'll never forget.
David

It's our third day in Dar-Es-Salaam now, and we're having a great time.
Yesterday we went around the city, had some problems with the telephone cards, and took care of Julian, who unfortunately didn't get his luggage yet, becaus Turkish airlines somehow lost it.

And today we went to the Kiluvya secondary High School.
We were welcomed were warmly and had a good talk with the teachers, while eating some very good food (like fired bananas and african tea).
Then we went into a class, where the student Eric lead a discussion abouth different topics. We started with the different education systems, talked about religion, famaly, global warming, politics and a whole lot more. I experienced this time as really informative and the tanzanian students were so ambitious and knew much about the government and their projects, more than we did about our projects and government. It was a great cultural exchange and there i got to know many nice students. After the discussions we were shown around by some students. They were all so great, i got to know many new people and i'm so exicted for the homestay. I don't know in which famaly im in yet, but i know that it's going to be a great experience.

I'm really,really happy and pleased to be here and i like the people and Tanzania a lot !

My first day at the Kiluvya secondary was very impressive! Discussing with students from another world about politics, religion and economy was very interesting. I was surprised by the way we were welcomed and how nicely people from other countries are treated in Tanzania! I'm so glad to be here, the first days in Tansania were great! I hope we'll have a lot of fun in the rest of our time in tansania!

Thanks to all Tanzanians to be so kind to us,
Justin

you are most welcomed to our school
it was nice to meet you and your coming
we hope its not the end of you to visit our school
welcome once again and fill at home.
am more pleased with the kind of friendship that is going on between Helene and our school we hope it will last forever.