Through the Seasons

Muda Unapaa

(Meaning:  Time is flying.)

Now that we’re on the homestretch of language learning I sometimes have a hard time focusing.  Not all the time.  But occasionally.  We only have 3 1/2 weeks left and we’re doing mainly review, reading, and conversing.  Last week we memorized the Lord’s Prayer in Swahili.  That was fun and surprisingly I still remember it!

At the beginning of classes, they threw so much at us that it was like taking a drink of water from a fire hose!  Today the teacher explained a concept and I thought, “Well, that’s simple enough.”  When every single thing was new to me I couldn’t have understood even something that now seems easy.  I’d let myself get antsy if I didn’t realize just how fast time is going to go.  It has gone by so fast already and I know that 3 1/2 weeks passing will go by in a blink of an eye.

There is a couple here going to Mbeya in 2 weeks who have offered to take our excess “stuff” to the SIL office to be stored while we’re gone.  This is a HUGE help!  So we’ll need to start deciding what to leave behind and what to take with us.  Once we’ve made those decisions we’ll have to start – gulp – packing.  Yikes!  We have SO moved into this banda!  It’s like the person who has lived in the same house 20 years moving.  Scary!  (Well, not that bad – but it feels that bad. )

I’m excited though to think that in less than a month we’ll be back home to stay for a while.  I have to remember it’s going to be COLD and pack accordingly!!  I’ve made a mental list of foods that I want when I’m home (there goes that “watch what you eat” plan).  I also have all these things I want to bake with my mom – things I either remember her making for me or us making together when I was a kid.  I was going to ask her if I could help her decorate the house for Christmas but then remembered we’d be there only a week before Christmas.    (Maybe I’ll pack a few things up and then take them back out…okay…maybe not…)

But back to reality…  At least I don’t have homework tonight.