gooooo Yanga!

I was able to sit still a little longer today and read for about 3 hours this morning! Not a very interesting morning, but good to be able to forget about the big city for a while.

This afternoon we went downtown and walked around a bit and then went to the Yanga soccer game in the Tanzanian National Stadium. It was so interesting to see how much of the rest of the world experiences...sports! we just have so many of them in the US (baseball stadiums, football stadiums, arenas, convention centers). This National stadium is the second largest in all of Africa! very new, but clearly built for only one thing, SOCCER! no conversion to a baseball field or anything else. the inside walls of the stadium looked a little too bare...because there were hardly any advertisements. I think the Tanzanian government paid to have the stadium constructed.

best part of the whole day, it only cost 5000 Tsh to see the whole game (less than $5)

I will go to Mass tomorrow morning at a parish here by the guest house in Dar es Salaam. That will be a good chance to meet some more local people :)

We leave for Songea Monday morning at 6am on a bus.
maybe another soccer game tomorrow, who knows.