Jambiani!

Now we have one week + a weekend vacation from the school, so we went to Jambiani for some days. We know a girl called Kristin and her sister, Margrethe owns a house in Jambiani. She owns it with 3 (I think...) other persons, and the house is very big (5 rooms, 10 beds). We were there from friday to sunday. We = Mum, dad, Margrethe, Camilla (a friend of Margrethe) and me.

This is the house.

Haha! Sideways, I hope it's okay! We could walk on the beach to some restaurants!

 We went out to dive in a very thin boat!

My dad was fishing and he got 4 fish! All the same size :)

The view from the terrace, we could just walk right through the gate and into the ocean.

I am a pro photographer :D!

We were in Jambiani this weekend, and I will write more about that in another post.
But there I took some pictures that I think was cool.
Here you can see some:

I think this one was cool!      

This picture is not very nice, but kind of cool. This is actually some salt on my plate, but it looks like the planet Mars or something like that. 

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 I just thought this was a cool picture ;)

 A fork!

This is the picture I'm most proud of (it's my dad)!

On the way to the restaurant...

On the way back!

Baking ♥!

When we got here, people told us not to eat chocolate.
So I found out that instead of sweets every saturday, I was going to make a cake every weekend.
But some of the ingredients are different, so they did not become very good.
I have made 4 brownies/chocolate cake and only one of them was good.

Nr.1 = Almost cookies :) A "adult" taste, kind of like a "dark" taste. I did not like it very much (It look better on the picture than it really was)

Nr.2 = Too sweet, like caramell. (I am sorry. I dont have a picture of this cake)

Nr.3 = Good! (Sorry! I dont have a picture of this either!)

Nr.4 = It was in the oven a little bit too long... It also had a kind of "adult" taste.


But I think all of them could have been good if I made them with ingredients from Norway :)

Good news!

Hi!

I have some good news for you!

I just wanted to tell you something about  commeting.
Some of you told me that it did not work to comment, that you needed to be a google user.
But now I have fixed that :) So if you want to comment, just do it!

But if it does not work, I would really appreciate if you told me.

This time: Sheik is missing!

Since tuesday Sheik Farid Hadi has been missing. He is a muslim leader, so of course people notice. Some people think that the police did it, but the police disagrees. They say that they don't know where he is, but they are looking for him. There have been battles between the police and the people (mostly young men), and they are throwing stones and burning tyres. Because of the riots, schools are closed, but not our.
Over 50 people are arrested and one policeman killed.
Zanzibar has for a long time wanted to be it's own country, so that may also be one of the reasons for the riots. All of this happens around stone town so thankfully it doesn't happen here.

Here you can see... I haven't seen any of this, but it doesn't look nice on the pictures.

Shein is missing :(

For a while ago now (maybe on week++) we didn't find Shein (our little chicken) that morning.
He is still gone...
Here you can see a video my father (his blog: www.zanzibarmzungo.wordpress.com) edited about Shein: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fntGzewIoZk&feature=youtu.be
Here is some memory images:

But... Let's hope he will come back! :)

Church!!!

Hello :)

Okay, so on sunday we went to the church. A swahili, christian church. We didn't understand one word! Or actually, sometimes they said some numbers that I understood, but only that. What we did was sitting there and listening, and sometimes all the other people sat down on their knees to pray, so we did the same. And two times during the church service we had to handshake all the people close to us. We had no idea why! The most funny part was that in the end everybody was suddenly watching us and we didn't know why, so my dad asked, I think... (don't remember). They said that we should tell something about us. So he said something like this: "We are a norwegian family, that are going to stay here in Zanzibar for one year. We thought it would be interessting to come to see the church, so here we are. We don't understand anything of what's happening (everybody lauhged) but we really like the singing. So thank you very much!

After two hours with church we had to handshake everybody and then we stood in a sircel and they auctioned off two prayer benches.

My thoughts about this church visit was that it was very booring, and I can't actually say that I wan't to do it again. It is an english church service that is starting soon, but I don't know if we are going. We didn't use to go to the church in Norway, so it is actually kind of weird if we are going to do it here.
I am sorry but I do not have any picture of this.

Shopping!

On saturday we went to town to shop some clothes for me. We was in a lot of shops, and found some very cool things. The problem was that the cool things was either something I didn't need or something to warm. But on the way home we was in two second hand stores. They had a lot of clothes, and very cheap. So of course I bought something! And here you can see them:

All of them I bought for about 15-20NOK/2.5-3.5USD

We'we got a pet!

Hi there!

Today my dad actually found a little chicken in our garden. If we let it alone, it will probably be eaten up by some other animal, so my dad made a little "house" for the chicken. So now maybe it will stay with us, i dont know! We want to give it a name, but we don't know if it is a boy or a girl.

Isn't it cute<3?

Turtles!

On saturday we went to a island called Prison island.There it is a park with a lot of turtles. You can pat the turtles or/and just look at them. Every turtle had a number written on the shell, the number was how old the turtle was. The oldest one was 189 years old!