It's Friday, Friday, Friday

Thank you Karen, for the title of today's blog.  She was singing the "Friday,  Friday, Friday" song all day today and now it is officially stuck in my head.  We are all in a very good mood.  Today was our last day of 4 hour Swahili Class - next week it cuts back to 2 hours which will be a relief.  We had another Swahili test today.  It went alright.  We have all pretty much given up on studying for the exams in that class because whenever we do study the material for the test, it never actually ends up being on the test.  After the test we got to listen to Swahili music, something that we always love doing!  Our teacher plays popular Tanzanian songs for us and we have to try to pick out the Swahili words in them.  It's quite fun!  If any of you are bored and want to check out some Tanzanian music, try googling "Narudi Kijijini" by Best Nasso or "Mama Nitilie" by Gelly and AT.  It's really cool to see some familiar landmarks in the music videos.  Lunch today at the Kiswahili Cafe made up for last night's dinner.  I decided to have ndizi (plaintain stew) with beans instead of the usual rice and beans.  It was a much needed change and I really enjoyed it.  After lunch, we had human evolution.  We typically don't have human evolution on Fridays, but since the power has been out so much, we had to reschedule it to today.  Right now some of the kids in our program who have been taking dance classes are volunteering at an AIDS shelter.  Their dance instructor (Musafa) volunteers at the AIDS shelter and asked them if they wanted to come show the AIDS victims some dance moves.  And this evening we are all going downtown to Addis in Dar, the Ethiopian restaurant that we went to on one of the first weeks we were here.  Some of us are planning on going clubbing afterwords for Nidal's birthday, but we will see if that actually happens.  Tomorrow we have to be up at 8:00 am to leave for Mbudya where we will be spending the day.  The original plan was to stay overnight, but it looks like it is going to be way too expensive so we have decided to make it a day trip instead.  We are all really excited to relax on the beach and do some snorkeling.  Hopefully I'll have some wonderful pictures of the island for you all! 
Today I got the three letters that my family sent me.  One was sent August 22nd, one was sent August 29th, and one was sent August 30th.  Still no sign of the computer charger, though.  Anyway, I'm going to work on some research until we leave so have a fabulous day!
Erin