Last April, when we thought we would be heading to another part of Tanzania, we moved out of our first Shinyanga house. We had paid for a year up front so were delighted when Koen and Jacqueline, a Dutch couple who also work with ICS, moved in and covered the rent. When we came back to Shinyanga in July, we found a house until December but arrived back in January homeless with out stuff stored in two different friends' houses.
So we have spent the past couple of weeks asking around and trying to find a house - not the easiest when every landlord seems to want a year commitment. However, in bad news, Koen and Jacqueline told us last week that they are leaving Shinyanga. They have become good friends and often bare the brunt of our frustrations and venting so we'll miss having them around. It does mean, in a true 'every cloud' scenario, that we can have their house - our house - back again.
So we have spent the past couple of weeks asking around and trying to find a house - not the easiest when every landlord seems to want a year commitment. However, in bad news, Koen and Jacqueline told us last week that they are leaving Shinyanga. They have become good friends and often bare the brunt of our frustrations and venting so we'll miss having them around. It does mean, in a true 'every cloud' scenario, that we can have their house - our house - back again.
We've been moved back in for a few days and it's a little weird. Most things look the same. Even Alice's homemade wooden Christmas tree is still in the living room. To avoid repeating ourselves, here's our first blog about the house from October 2014...it's nice to be home!
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