1 Month In

So I have lived at site now for 1 month. I live in the South Pare Mts. Up where the permaculture was invented, and where living is easy. My village is on the side of a mountain, so to go anywhere except down the road to the next village, you are either walking straight up a mt or down. The main road is mainly flatish. I am very remote. There are 2 buses out of the mountains, one leaves daily for the cities of Same, where I do my banking and general business, and then Moshi the jumping off point for Kilimanjaro. This bus leaves at 3 am from the next ward over (that is 3 towns away). The other bus is from the next town over and goes every other day to Tanga returning the following day, also leaving at 3 am. So if I ever desire to go anywhere I need to leave my houe a day early and hike to the appropriate town, stay the half a night at a guest house and then take a rattingly bus down the mountian to an adequate road and eventually to town: a trip of about 5 hrs. I do not plan on making this trip too often, maybe once a month. That means I shall not have access to computers banks or anything too often. But for me thats not much of a problem. My village has almost everything. Running water (in streams), cheap vegetables grown on the terraced mountains, great meat (raised off those crops), great views (out to Kenya and the Usambara mts), very friendly people, coffee shops and little restuarants everywhere. My village has many people that are already on the ball with regards to environmental issues along the lines of the projects that I am supposed to do. They have great running farms producing crops year round, have started projects to raise and sell goats cows and chikens, and are underway with a project to pipe the entire town. Allegedly electricity is coming next year as well. So the biggest issues that I see is that we are far from anything with a horrid road in between. Hence people are poor but they are also up and coming. Also my town is the center of party for the region with many drinking clubs in our little 100 yrds of down town. So I kinda love my village.
My site mate, Mary is 2 towns over and I hear about her almost everyday. Although I have already made it a week without running into her once. Usually people are just asking why I live so far from my wife (because the 2 whities must be married to each other). But other than that we have had no issues working in with the community around us. The biggest issues are that I have too many invites to houses and parties and too many people are feeding me at these events. So any food I buy usually goes bad days before I think about cooking, and a few people are dissappointed that I didn't come visit their house because I was off visiting and talking with other villagers. Life is kinda okay.

Words of Wisdom:
The US Gov't does not negotiate with witch doctors. Especially at times of a party.