Photo fun.

I’m in Saudi Arabia now for 2 weeks. We left TZ on Wednesday. It was really hard. I have met some wonderful people in Moshi and I love, love, love the town with a vengeance.

So I’ve been meaning to update this blog for ages. But in Moshi time was running away from me, now that I do have the time I’m going to do a bit of a backtrack and write all the posts that I was going to do in TZ.

Rewind a week and a half ago.

As I’ve said before the TEACH website is well underway. We desperately needed some good professional pictures for it. I put ads up all over the place but to no avail. I got a couple bogus phone calls and it really seemed that we were just gonna have to us our little digitals and do our best.

So the awesome foursome (Me, Hawwa, Lizzie and Mel) are in the café having lunch. We are talking about our predicament. Mel says that we need to literally just go up to people and ask them if they have a decent SLR and if they would be willing to help us. We really didn’t want to do this, but we were desperate. So we start looking around for potential candidates. Mel points out a guy sitting in the corner and there is a general consensus from the table that he looks like the good camera type. So it is agreed that Mel and I will go and ask him (Lizzie and Hawwa would have to do the next person if this fails.) Up to random person we go, we explain to him about TEACH and all the things we are doing at the school. We then ask him if he has a good camera and if he could possibly help us.

Doug: Sure, I actually have a really good camera.

Boom first time lucky. Lizzie and Hawwa were relieved that their turn wouldn’t come.

Our view. Lol at Hawwa's finger poking Madagascar!

To cut a few long and winding stories short (one is quite funny) it took us 3 days to get all the pictures we needed. Doug was great he came to the school and he did a wonderful job at getting some of the trickier shots done. It took longer than anticipated and we didn’t finish that day so Doug LENT us his camera for the next day, as he couldn’t make it. It was tiring it was long but everyone had fun doing it. In the end we got loads of pictures, I’m excited to see them up on the website.

You know that saying fortune favours the bold, it couldn’t be truer.

7ikmat el post:Go out on a limb that is where the fruit is - Jimmy Carter.