Picha Picha!

Here is a link to some of the pictures I have managed to both take and post while I've been here. Pictures take FOREVER to upload onto these computers, so I've been working on compiling this for a while, and there are still a lot more where these came from, but this is a start: http://www.flickr.com/photos/devonian451/

I haven't taken pictures yet of my village, my schools, or my family because people here have a very different perception of pictures here in Tanzania. If I start taking pictures now, they'll expect me to take pictures of everything at every moment ever. They'll crowd around my camera wanted to see the picture, and I also risk my camera getting damaged. So...yeah expect some cool pictures of village life some time in the coming weeks, if I can manage without making it awkward.

Pictures of Arusha and people are pretty much impossible unless we are in a moving vehicle and quickly being whisked away, which is why many of my "daily life" pictures are kind of crooked and blurry. Some people, such as Masai dressed in traditional garb, will actual charge for photographs, watching to see if tourists take their cameras out so that they can demand money.

But I'm working on posting as many as I can as quick as I can, so take a look!