With Love, From Musoma
Dorms upstairs & classrooms downstairs Welcome to my new home for the next 4 months! Makoko Language School- founded in 1964 by the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. The school offers courses in Swahili and 3 other of the local tribal languages. I dorm here, along with two of my fellow Maryknoll Lay Missioners, two sisters- one from Nigeria, one from Poland, and two priests- one from the Philippines, and the other from Poland. I am the youngest on campus, but by the amount of fun we all have together, you would never be able to tell. We attend class 5 days a week, 8:30 am to about 4 pm. We eat every meal together, and play tennis, volleyball, or ping-pong afterwards to release some of the stress of our working brain that has been on Swahili overload. I wake up every morning to the sound of African drums and singing from the young girls that live on campus next door, walk out my door and see the campus cow grazing in the field outside my room, go downstairs for a breakfast of