So we've had a busy busy couple of weeks up in Qash! We had our first testing date this Wednesday, and we got 166 people tested. We are also working together with surrounding villages, and many have been tested there too. We have two more testing dates in Qash itself (one is actually on the border with another village and 2 teams are working together), and 2 "Community Days" where all of Qash ward will come to the biggest city for a football tournament ("soccer"), and performances, and testing. So we are still busy, with advertising and teaching and training our peer educators.
We've had a lot of trouble dealing with our secondary school teachers, who sometimes just send the class to another school, or have all the girls in the school take pregnancy tests, or schedule other things while we're supposed to be teaching or planning with our peer educator group. They just don't think to tell us sometimes, and we've had to do a lot of last-minute plan changes. Also our peer educator group is inconsistent with attendance, so we are trying to restrategize with that. Meanwhile we've only got two weeks left in Qash!
A note on my trip from the village to Babati: we took a "dola-dola", which is like a minivan where they squeeze 20 people inside (literally), and it's really cheap but it gets you where you need to go. We had two flat tires on the way, and there was a goat sitting under my seat headbuttiing my friend Abraham (a teaching partner) the whole way. At least its legs were tied up!
Tomorrow is Halloween and us Americans are showing the teaching partners how it's done! They don't even understand the concept of wearing a costume, so it should be interesting. We go back to the villages on Sunday afternoon, and so we get to party it up right now :)
BIG congrats to my sister Sarah on her engagement! So happy for her and Jon!
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