Shopping, Swahili and Swimming

On Thursday we took a trip to a local market. We have a tiny market by our house but the fruit and vegetables are not cheap compared to what you can get at the bigger markets. It was a ideal time to practice my Swahili, and I heard a few utterances about it, maybe because they knew they couldn't charge Mzungu price? They probably still did! 


Anyway, for under £4 I got 2 Tilapia fish, 15 baby bananas, 2 mangoes, a coconut, a lime, 3 green peppers, 13 tomatoes, 4 carrots, 2 onions, some weird sweet seed things and some spinach. A good amount of it was used in yesterday's cookery lesson which produced this delicious meal (I forgot to take the picture before we started to eat, there was a whole fried fish and everything!):

I have really made efforts with Swahili this week; the mobile phone network I am on here gives you 4 free texts a day so I have used them to text my teacher in Swahili. For a text without mistakes I am on about a 50% success rate at the moment, but the mistakes I have made are small! 


We are hoping to go swimming later, but as I write this the rain is loud and the thunder is rumbling. Fingers crossed the sun comes out as we had to cancel last week's trip due to the weather! We are going to take Big Babies... super cute.