Mary and Dismass
When I’m 64, I hope I’m like Mary. Mary is one of my team members who came to Tanzania in January. I love this woman! She’s in her sixties and here for six months teaching at Madisi — a school that is approx. 2 hours from where I’m located (Sawala).
Last Saturday Mary and I had plans to get together, but due to unforeseen circumstances, I had to cancel at the last minute. Worried that Mary wouldn’t receive my cancellation message on time, early Saturday morning I walked to the bus stop to meet her - just in case she had come. It was a foggy, rainy morning. When I didn’t see Mary on the bus, I assumed this meant she had received my message. I returned home and sat down with the girls to enjoy a warm cup of coffee. A few minutes later, we heard the revving of a motorcycle outside, followed by the sound of Mary’s voice. Sure enough, it was Mary along with our friend, Dismass, from Madisi.
After hugs, taking off her neon orange jacket and drying her wet hair with a towel, we got the whole story: Mary hadn’t received my cancellation message. The bus that leaves from Madisi couldn’t make it up the muddy, potholed road the night before, so she wasn’t able to catch the bus that morning. Instead, Dismass (one of the Tanzanian teachers at Madisi) had a motorcycle and needed to go into town to get petrol, so Mary hopped on the back of the motorcycle and caught a ride with him! (Conveniently ignoring the fact that it’s an informal VST rule that foreign teachers shouldn’t ride on motorcycles because they’re so dangerous and recently there was an unfortunate motorcycle accident involving a VST student.) Half way to Sawala Mary and Dismass ran out of Petrol and had to wait for about an hour in the rain to get more, but eventually they made it here!
I have this mental image of Mary in her neon orange jacket, gray hair blowing in the wind as she rides down muddy deteriorating dirt roads in Tanzania on the back of a motorcycle, literally throwing caution to the wind. I seriously hope I’m like Mary when I’m 64.
May 12th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
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