sako

Today was the first day of class. Charles, our teacher, was great and wanted everything to be more discussion based so it was really interesting. The place where we have class is a nature conservation office as well and there are large turtles and some hawkish bird. I took color film today so ill just have to just post some pervious digital photos.  After class Mary took us to the local market. First we went to the Massai market which was really cool but mostly for tourist. Then she took us to the real market. The real market, or sako, was amazing. All of the sudden we were surrounded by people, noises, fresh fruit, fish and music. People where following us trying to sell us all sorts of things. There were no monsungo (white people) around, we had finally found a place without tourist.  I cant wait to develop the photos. I am learning alot about the art of taking photographs of strangers. The language barrier is intimidating but most people are friendly. Today in the market people were telling me it was fine to take pictures of them and asking my if i wanted to take a picture of the fresh fish. At one point I turned around and saw a large basket of small fish the size of paper clips. A women saw sitting next to them and became very upset thinking I was taking a picture of her. She said things in swahili and got up and left. I apologized soon after and she smiled and said mzari, good. Every picture is a new experience and I am learning as I am going. I do not want to offend the locals I only want them to be represented in my photographs in a realistic and respectful way.  Well its jioni in Arusha and it is getting late!