Kathryn has a mailing address at her site. She is sharing a post office box with the nearest volunteer. She can be reached at:
Kathryn Alexander
P.O.Box 12
Kitangali, Newala, Mtwara, Tanzania
She is about an hour walk from Kitangali, longer than the distance would indicate because there is a very large, deep valley she has to cross and scaling it is pretty slow. (Note the "l" instead of the originally reported "r" in Kitangali. She said that "l" and "r" are largely interchangable in Kiswahili and that the "l" is more common for that town's name.)
She likes her headmaster and said everyone has been very nice and helpful. She is making some progress on getting settled in and has managed to get her mosquito net hung from the hard-to-reach ceiling and successfully made a tasty eggplant / tomato / onion meal with her stove. There is a well outside her house and she said when it is low the students carry buckets of water to fill it. She still needs to find a way to store her stuff and is thinking she could stack some of the baskets they use for fruits and veggies on their sides to make a bookshelf of sorts. She likes the other Peace Corps volunteers in her region and some of them have electricity so she can go charge her phone and other electronics. She is thinking about getting a modem so she doesn't have to make the 4-hour trek to the internet cafe.
[Posted by mom, based on info from phone conversations with dad & sis ]
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