TZ 2: settling in

The house is livable, it just lacks some things, like a functional refridgerator and a mirror. The first few days were devoted to fixing the house up and getting to know Musoma. Though the fridge is still not working, someone is working on finding a replacement part and we have a freezer that doesn't freeze for the meantime. We do at least now have lights in the living room and both showers work. But that's the boring stuff. The town of musuma is close to our house and before we purchased bikes, we could walk there easily, right past the airport (4 flights per week, dirt runway). In town there are streets of little shops and a market with the food, and some of the vendors see us and immediately try to charge us 7 times what they'd charge any African, but for the most part it's relatively cheap, about 1000 Tsh (Tanzanian shillings) per dollar. I'm not even caught up yet, sorry my island vacation got me off schedule... I'll try to get pictures up at some point, but i can't do that from my iPod at this point. Let me know if there was anything interesting described that there should be a picture of.