We had a little outing on the weekend to one of Arusha's cultural tourism programs, Tengeru. It was a lot of fun and was made all the more hilarious by some fantastic new students that have come to the house. We started off by learning about their biogas project. Basicallly, they keep a few cows, feed them scraps and hay, collect all their poop, push it underground where it produces gas, pipe the gas out, filter it, and then it goes straight into the house for cooking. Absolutely ingenious. I can't work out why more people don't use this system.
Next we went off for a walk to the coffee plantation. I think I found the other guys hilarious because their minds are constantly in the gutter and conversations were full of inuendo and sarcasm. Suddenly it wasn't just bunches of bananas hanging in the trees.
It was so nice to make some little friends on the walk.
Anyway, we went through the whole coffee making process. From picking the beans...
To shelling them.
To roasting them.
To grinding them.
And, finally, drinking them. It was actually quite a unique taste. I'm going to go out on a limb and say it was the best cup of coffee I've ever had.
We finished off with a hike to a waterfall. There were lots of monkeys about and for a while we thought they were throwing rocks down at us. Turns out it was a bunch of kids, but I like the monkey story much better.
Till next time x
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