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What time is it?

the alarm clock we do not need here. Still in the dark all the cocks begin to crow of the village, is at the latest for us the night is over. Fortunately, there are earplugs for those who can sleep with them, I can not.

is between 06.00 and 07.00 clock on the sun, are seasonal differences are a few degrees south of the equator, not - and why it's every day 19.00 clock dark again. Under that same day during the times set up in Tanzania. Of course, here has a day 24 hours, but starts counting the hours of the day at sunrise with hour 0, and because it is the end of the night after 12 hours In our era, then it is 06.00 clock. Thus, the 12 hours of the day counted until dusk, and again with hour 0, and 12, the night begins, so clock 18.00 CET. If necessary, follow the clear indication of the additional time for the day and siku usiku for SAA began teaching daily 02:00 am - at night, as in English with am and pm

that's not familiar of us stunned when I sign up to Germany submitted a timetable of the school had. Then we could make no sense to us first, for the following breaks and finishing times did not fit naturally into our CET scheme. We found it very unusual, SAA 4:00 to go to the lunch break, 06:30 to speak of SAA and SAA Lunch 10:00 a.m.-school have.

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for us it was 21.30 clock.

Here, if appointments are made, do you do it in principle with the locals Kiswahili - times, otherwise they do not know the end.

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to which the members hold just about as there are, after breakfast, lunch and dinner, the usual meal times.

In Hospital appointments are generally familiar to us with the information-CET agreed, for the HMT - Hospital Management Team, which we also belong, speaks English.

There are in rural parlance some amusing for us descriptions for time to be designated by the usual activities for each day, such as "the herd bring to pasture" (at 08.00 clock), "bring the flock to home "(later than 17:00 clock), " is a person or what is it? "is the time between sunset and darkness, when you can hardly see anything, or" the pan on the fire " it's about 19:00 clock, when dinner is cooked.

Even this vague interpretations show that times here are worth nothing or are at best a rough guide. If a clock of 13.00 HMT meeting agreed, it never starts before 14.00 clock, at some point all spin and starts the endless palaver. For us it was a big adjustment, especially for the punctuality fanatics by the Court.

time plays no role for Tanzania. A Clock has anyway no one here is all the time and, if nothing else on - in abundance.

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One week holiday

After a short but in my opinion, a well-earned holiday has me in the everyday Lugala again. Long I had been looking forward to Claudia's visit, then almost three weeks with her gone by. Until the last day of their departure from Germany, we did not even know if they would actually come. With our operations here in Lugala we were of course very limited, had to turn out cycling through the bush villages and our planned hike through the rain forest Udzungwa Mountains. But was important above all that we could spend time together. Also, I was here anyway even a duty, as quarterly statements had to be done und wenn wir in Lugala anwesend sind, sind wir sowieso immer im Dienst - vor allem Peter, der auch schon mal nachts aus dem Bett gerufen wird, weil das Hospitalauto mit leerem Tank abgestellt wurde, man aber dringend einen Patienten holen muss. So hat Claudia eine ganze Menge Hospitalalltag erlebt.

Mit Charles als stolzem Chauffeur waren wir auf Spazierfahrt am Furua. Allein hätten wir uns in dem weitverzweigten Wegenetz durch die – jetzt trockene – Sumpfebene wohl hoffnungslos verirrt. Es ist ein idyllischer Platz und Charles meint, abends kämen Elefanten zum Fluss.

mit Charles am Furua

Our onward journey began a bit adventurous. Peter took us to Ifakara and wanted to go to our train ride the next morning along with a money courier and much-needed return to Lugala tires. Elisabeth Rotzetter, director of solid Armed offices in Ifakara was still usable tires, our "skinheads" to replace the time being. An unusually long line of cars at the Kilombero made us suspicious, soon after, the certainty - the ferry is broken. When she would again be operational, no one knew was repaired for some time. The fishermen took advantage of course, the opportunity and put the people against a multiple of the ferries with their canoes over.

is all about in the dugout at the Kilombero

not, there are crocodiles and hippos, but where was the excitement that day probably too large. We have seen in any event no. We ended up staying no choice but to cross the river as well, we wanted to plan the TAZARA (Tanzania-Zambia-Railway) in the morning drive to Dar Es Salaam. The train runs twice a week, you will be taken only with space reserved tickets. For a place in one of four 1st class carriages in the style of DR 80's and quite worn, should be the ticket buy at least 14 days in advance, you do not want to sweat in the crowded second class seats between humans, chickens, rice sacks and other oversized bags and bundles.
was quickly agreed with Elisabeth, money man and tires are brought to the shore, on set with Peter dugout and goes back with two / m. The idea that Peter runs into the darkness with his precious cargo through the wilderness after Lugala was scarier than me at the end but very quiet river crossing in the dugout.
Claudia and I had at the Ifakara page for a while on the solid-armed car waiting, was finally the weekend, drivers money man and not prepared for this use. Meanwhile, the ferry was actually going again and Peter was able to queue jumping and clever reference to his patient to be transported from the hospital Lugala with the second crossing to the other bank's to come. to the dugout on crutches with a set Mzungu could, of course, remind everyone.

on the delay of the TAZARA the next morning we were set, sometimes there are sometimes 20 hours. This constitutes nothing to anyone, because if we here in Africa and not much else has the time all have. Nevertheless, we were of course on time at the station, denn verlässliche Informationen gibt es nicht. Auf teilweise landschaftlich sehr schönen Strecken geht es recht gemächlich in 9 Stunden nach Dar. Allein der Abschnitt durch den Selous Nationalpark lohnt diese Fahrt, denn hier erlebt man sozusagen eine „Safari for free“.

Auf Sansibar gab es dann Erholung, wie man sich das auf einer exotischen Insel vorstellt: Sonne, Strand, Indischer Ozean, entspannte Menschen, reife Früchte im Überfluss, gutes Essen, für mich guten Wein – Claudia blieb bei ihrer Brause- ein bisschen faulenzen und lesen, auf Sansibar natürlich ein Bummel durch Gewürzplantagen und durch die verwinkelten Gassen der Stone town.

cloves just before the harvest

After a week climbed Claudia her plane to Berlin and me went there by ferry to `s mainland to Dar, the taxi bus and back into the bush. Peter picked me up half way and already waiting eagerly - see last post.

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A week loneliness

I had Beate and Claudia Ifakara to the station, 7.00 clock should drive the train. Later I learn that the train had 5 hours late - it was still relatively on time, there were already 12 hours or more. Then a burst tire to be replaced, the wheel cross breaks off too, but that night I'm back in Lugala.
A very strange feeling, the only Mzungu to be far and wide. The doctor Peter Hellmold in Germany, Beate vacationing with Claudia and I am alone in the wilderness.
then see how the days? Social contacts outside of work is not and there will probably never will. So stay only: go work, bike, reading and internet. I start with the last and admit that I was until a few months is an absolute Internet ignoramus. There is a window to the world and I am grateful for this invention.

our window to the world

Reading is also a change, but every night alone with a book is not necessarily constructive. As bicycle ride is better, you just have to avoid the only paved road here. There are now more cars than usual (the rice harvest is in principle with the overloaded trucks made elsewhere) and now the dry season makes it one of the dust to create it. But on the outside because something is fun - the huts under palm trees, cashew nut and mango trees, the fire in front of the huts and children about children. It's like diving into another world.

by bike

yet it fails to work and there is already an unusual condition, and a bit disturbing to, share with anyone else can. Actually, there is a daily or more new problems, but if I then (as happened) a larger group would be faced by staffs and these are of the opinion denying them over 8 million shillings attendance fee - then it's a special situation. Or if the hospital fogged every day, around the Clock of burning garbage and is all plastic waste is burned with the same - this is not necessarily supportive atmosphere. In this case, I have dinner to try in the dark, using water to extinguish the fires. Of course, alone, who cares else
The Diesel settlement is deceived, that someone has stolen the diesel for the power supply is not replenished in time - and that's all you have to agree with him alone. Since it is difficult but the presence here not to call in Lugala in question.
I would not do this job alone here and if I think about it: I admire people such as missionaries, under much tougher conditions this Kreuz auf sich genommen haben. Da ziehe ich voller Ehrfurcht den Hut.