What I'll miss...
- Witness's cooking
- The flavours of the food
- Cakes from Picasso's
- Milkshakes from Afrocafe
- Speaking Swahili
- John's taxi music
- The community of the house
- Chipatties
- Visiting the orphanage
- Thursday BBQ
- Friday lala day
- Having time to read lots of books
- Taking the dala dala into town
- Via Via
- How cheap things are
- Bartering at the maasi market
- Having pancakes for breakfast
What I'm lookin forward to...
- Seeing my family and friends again
- Cereal
- My own bed
- Hvaing electric 24/7
- Not having to use deet
- Being able to walk down the street without being shouted 'mzungu' at/being stared at/being harrassed to buy something
- Washing machines
- Being called by my name rather than 'muzungu'
- Light nights
- Being able to leave food on my plate when I'm full and not feeling really rude
- Pedestrian crossings
Friday, 27 May 2011
Monday, 23 May 2011
and then there were 4 ...
Gosh, it feels like ages since I've written on here!
I'm back in Arusha again now! It was weird as John (our taxi driver) was driving us back to the house after picking us up from the airport. As we approached Arusha and I recognised the area, it almost felt like I was back home! I loved Zanzibar, it was really relaxing and beautiful, but it made me so glad that I'd chosen to do my elective in Arusha rather than the other places in Tanzania!
The house is now down to just 4 people, which is kind of weird! Its now a 2:2 ratio of Canadians: UK people. Next week I'm pretty confident we'll take the upper hand haha! The new small group is nice, it means you can have more 'me' time if you want, but there are still people to chat to if you want! I leave before like 12 people arrive. The house gets really full after this week. I told our cook,Witness, to make the most of not having as much work because she is going to be flat out as of Sunday! She says she loves it when the house is full though!
I've now moved to a different department in the hospital, I'm now on the labour ward! Today was my first day and we (well I say we,I didn't do loads of hands on stuff, but I was there for most of the births!) delivered...wait for it...7 babies! Amazing! They are all soooo beautiful! No joke, the women were seriously lucky that I didn't sneak one home with me, I did come pretty close at one point! They were so tiny, I'd never held a baby less than 24 hours old before, let alone less than 5 mins old! Today I mostly just weighed the babies and wrapped then up in the congas, and filled in some paperwork. Emily is there too which is great actually because she has been there for the past 3 weeks and knows what she is doing. She helped me get more stuck in, and its nice to have someone to chat to when there is a lull.
This weekend just gone was actually nice and quiet and chilled out. I did think at one point that I might have gone on a safari, but it was abit last minute and people kept dropping out, and it was just getting more and more expensive, so we didn't get in the end. My whole view point on it has totally changed during my time here. When I was planning my trip, going on safari was top top of my list of things that I really wanted to do while I was here. And when I arrived and found out most people were either leaving soon, or had already done a safari, I think I could have cried. I was so disappointed. But as I have spent more time here, I have realised that actually, I count myself INCREDIBLY blessed to have even had the option of going. So many people wouldn't even get that. I have decided also to give some of the money that I'd saved for going on safari to Paradiso Orphanage that we have visited a couple of times. I cant remember if I mentioned it in a previous post, but they are currently building a bigger house so the can accommodate more children. I think it's such a great cause. I'm sad that I will only get to visit it one more time.
Yesterday (Sunday) we went on a coffee plantation tour which was actaully really good. We made ourown coffee to drink,and I'm not gona brag, but our coffee was actually the best coffee I've ever drank! ...OK,so it was probably more down to it not being transported across continents, and having things added to it, but still, it was awesome. We has to peel the beans, then pound them, then sive out the skins, roast them, pound them, sive them, pound some more, sive some more (ect ect...) and then boil it....mmmmm! In the afternoon we took a tour around a lake, the name of which I cant rememer! Again, it was beautiful. At one point we had a view across some ofthe plains of Tanzania, with the mountains far in the distance. It really was breathtaking. I dont think the photos I took will do it justice.
This final week is seriously going to be jam packed. There is still so much I want to do, and I only have another, what, 4 and a half days here! Time has seriously flown. I have loved every minuite of it here. Though I will be very sad to leave, the clock in my head that is counting down the days until I go home is getting louder. As Saturday gets closer and closer, I'm getting more glad that home isnt to long away.
I'm back in Arusha again now! It was weird as John (our taxi driver) was driving us back to the house after picking us up from the airport. As we approached Arusha and I recognised the area, it almost felt like I was back home! I loved Zanzibar, it was really relaxing and beautiful, but it made me so glad that I'd chosen to do my elective in Arusha rather than the other places in Tanzania!
The house is now down to just 4 people, which is kind of weird! Its now a 2:2 ratio of Canadians: UK people. Next week I'm pretty confident we'll take the upper hand haha! The new small group is nice, it means you can have more 'me' time if you want, but there are still people to chat to if you want! I leave before like 12 people arrive. The house gets really full after this week. I told our cook,Witness, to make the most of not having as much work because she is going to be flat out as of Sunday! She says she loves it when the house is full though!
I've now moved to a different department in the hospital, I'm now on the labour ward! Today was my first day and we (well I say we,I didn't do loads of hands on stuff, but I was there for most of the births!) delivered...wait for it...7 babies! Amazing! They are all soooo beautiful! No joke, the women were seriously lucky that I didn't sneak one home with me, I did come pretty close at one point! They were so tiny, I'd never held a baby less than 24 hours old before, let alone less than 5 mins old! Today I mostly just weighed the babies and wrapped then up in the congas, and filled in some paperwork. Emily is there too which is great actually because she has been there for the past 3 weeks and knows what she is doing. She helped me get more stuck in, and its nice to have someone to chat to when there is a lull.
This weekend just gone was actually nice and quiet and chilled out. I did think at one point that I might have gone on a safari, but it was abit last minute and people kept dropping out, and it was just getting more and more expensive, so we didn't get in the end. My whole view point on it has totally changed during my time here. When I was planning my trip, going on safari was top top of my list of things that I really wanted to do while I was here. And when I arrived and found out most people were either leaving soon, or had already done a safari, I think I could have cried. I was so disappointed. But as I have spent more time here, I have realised that actually, I count myself INCREDIBLY blessed to have even had the option of going. So many people wouldn't even get that. I have decided also to give some of the money that I'd saved for going on safari to Paradiso Orphanage that we have visited a couple of times. I cant remember if I mentioned it in a previous post, but they are currently building a bigger house so the can accommodate more children. I think it's such a great cause. I'm sad that I will only get to visit it one more time.
Yesterday (Sunday) we went on a coffee plantation tour which was actaully really good. We made ourown coffee to drink,and I'm not gona brag, but our coffee was actually the best coffee I've ever drank! ...OK,so it was probably more down to it not being transported across continents, and having things added to it, but still, it was awesome. We has to peel the beans, then pound them, then sive out the skins, roast them, pound them, sive them, pound some more, sive some more (ect ect...) and then boil it....mmmmm! In the afternoon we took a tour around a lake, the name of which I cant rememer! Again, it was beautiful. At one point we had a view across some ofthe plains of Tanzania, with the mountains far in the distance. It really was breathtaking. I dont think the photos I took will do it justice.
This final week is seriously going to be jam packed. There is still so much I want to do, and I only have another, what, 4 and a half days here! Time has seriously flown. I have loved every minuite of it here. Though I will be very sad to leave, the clock in my head that is counting down the days until I go home is getting louder. As Saturday gets closer and closer, I'm getting more glad that home isnt to long away.
Monday, 16 May 2011
ligretto fever
It's official, ligretto has taken over! the house flipping love it! when every we have a spare like 10mins people are like, `cheeky game of ligretto?` ...and an hour later we are still there playing it. It's pretty class! And you woul think that s the owner of the game, who has known how to play for more than like 4 days, I would have the upper hand, but oh no, my friend Rachel is on fire like every game!
Anyway, moving on from Ligretto...so I'm currently sat at a computer looking out of the window into a white sandy beach which has palm trees with hammocks dotted around, an amazing turquoise sea...its actually paradise here! We (Emily, Rachel, Alice and myself) flew out here to Zanzibar on Saturday morning. The flight was awesome, it was a small plan with propellers! As we flew out over Arusha, we could see the top of Mt Kilimanjaro peeping up abouve the clouds. It was quite a sight. Then as we approached Zanzibar, you saw tiny little islands with amaing turquiose patches of sea surrounding them.The island is quite literally like what you would see on a post card; its beautiful. After landing we went on a spice tour. Zanzibar is well known for growing loads of spices, and the tour was really interesting.We saw all the plants that the spices grew, were asked to guess what they were from the smell of their leaves (...I was actually useless at this, I come to think that my sense of smell is actually pretty crap haha! I managed to work out what like none of then were!). We also saw 'mr butterfly man' climb a coconut tree with nothing to help him but a loop of rope around his feet. There were points when he was at the top of the tree, doing like acrobatic style things that my heart skipped beat, I was kinda scared for him! But he was quite obviously fine, he can climb up to 200 coconut trees is a day, I think he is pretty well practiced!!
So we are staying at a place called Kendwa Rocks. The rooms are pretty basic, but its linked right to the beach and is actually a really cool place! Saturday night there was a full moon party, which wasn't actually on the beach like what I was expecting but just in the bar attached to the hotel. There were a few kind of acts before the music started, some acrobatics, a Michael Jackson dancer guy...was borderline freaky, but cool to watch haha! It was kind of bizarre dancing, the African people get sooo into the music! And they have so much rhythm, its embarrassing dancing next to them, you look like you have two left feet haha! And you can by just dancing away, and you will see like 2 Masai guys wearing full on Masai gear, wander past and start dancing! There are some pretty cool people here that we have met. We had dinner today with a guy from California, we bumped into a group of people Alica and Rachel know from climbing Kili ...its nice to meet a few different people from different parts of the world.
The past two days have been really relaxing, we have literally just sat at the beach enjoying the ...well not so much sun, more clouds! It's still pretty warm, but there has no way been clear blue skys! In a way I'm kinda glad because despite the slight lack of sun, I have still managed to slightly resemble a lobster :( I noticed my legs getting sightly pink ...and then felt them getting abit hotter, and by the end of the day they were noticeably burnt, not a good luck! After going to my room though that evening, I realised I really shouldn't be that bothered because they could be semi hidden by longer shorts...my face on the other hand could not! Whoops! Its calming down now, and fingers crossed will just go nice and brown soon haha!
Myself and Emily are heading back to mainland Tanzania tomorrow afternoon, back at the hospital on Tuesday! It will be quite nice to be back at the house! It' going to be pretty quiet now, most people have left! There will only be about 6 of us I think! Small groups are nice though, less washing up after tea too!!
Anyway, this computer doesn't tell me how long I have left so I'll not risk loosing this and leave it there! I'll blog again back in Arusha!
Anyway, moving on from Ligretto...so I'm currently sat at a computer looking out of the window into a white sandy beach which has palm trees with hammocks dotted around, an amazing turquoise sea...its actually paradise here! We (Emily, Rachel, Alice and myself) flew out here to Zanzibar on Saturday morning. The flight was awesome, it was a small plan with propellers! As we flew out over Arusha, we could see the top of Mt Kilimanjaro peeping up abouve the clouds. It was quite a sight. Then as we approached Zanzibar, you saw tiny little islands with amaing turquiose patches of sea surrounding them.The island is quite literally like what you would see on a post card; its beautiful. After landing we went on a spice tour. Zanzibar is well known for growing loads of spices, and the tour was really interesting.We saw all the plants that the spices grew, were asked to guess what they were from the smell of their leaves (...I was actually useless at this, I come to think that my sense of smell is actually pretty crap haha! I managed to work out what like none of then were!). We also saw 'mr butterfly man' climb a coconut tree with nothing to help him but a loop of rope around his feet. There were points when he was at the top of the tree, doing like acrobatic style things that my heart skipped beat, I was kinda scared for him! But he was quite obviously fine, he can climb up to 200 coconut trees is a day, I think he is pretty well practiced!!
So we are staying at a place called Kendwa Rocks. The rooms are pretty basic, but its linked right to the beach and is actually a really cool place! Saturday night there was a full moon party, which wasn't actually on the beach like what I was expecting but just in the bar attached to the hotel. There were a few kind of acts before the music started, some acrobatics, a Michael Jackson dancer guy...was borderline freaky, but cool to watch haha! It was kind of bizarre dancing, the African people get sooo into the music! And they have so much rhythm, its embarrassing dancing next to them, you look like you have two left feet haha! And you can by just dancing away, and you will see like 2 Masai guys wearing full on Masai gear, wander past and start dancing! There are some pretty cool people here that we have met. We had dinner today with a guy from California, we bumped into a group of people Alica and Rachel know from climbing Kili ...its nice to meet a few different people from different parts of the world.
The past two days have been really relaxing, we have literally just sat at the beach enjoying the ...well not so much sun, more clouds! It's still pretty warm, but there has no way been clear blue skys! In a way I'm kinda glad because despite the slight lack of sun, I have still managed to slightly resemble a lobster :( I noticed my legs getting sightly pink ...and then felt them getting abit hotter, and by the end of the day they were noticeably burnt, not a good luck! After going to my room though that evening, I realised I really shouldn't be that bothered because they could be semi hidden by longer shorts...my face on the other hand could not! Whoops! Its calming down now, and fingers crossed will just go nice and brown soon haha!
Myself and Emily are heading back to mainland Tanzania tomorrow afternoon, back at the hospital on Tuesday! It will be quite nice to be back at the house! It' going to be pretty quiet now, most people have left! There will only be about 6 of us I think! Small groups are nice though, less washing up after tea too!!
Anyway, this computer doesn't tell me how long I have left so I'll not risk loosing this and leave it there! I'll blog again back in Arusha!
Monday, 9 May 2011
twenty one
Oh my gosh, i feel like I have so much I want to write on here, I don't know where to start! The past week has flown by so fast, it was a pretty busy week!
Placement at the hospital is going OK, I'm finding it slightly harder to get into than placements in England but I was expecting that! The staff are all really welcoming which helps, and most speak a little English (some more than others!!). They love it when you try to speak Swahili to them though so I try my best! So I come in in the mornings are say 'shikamo! habari za asubuhi? Nzuri sana asante' and that's it...that's most of my Swahili vocab used! But after coming out with a Swahili greeting they then think you know more, and so start talking away to you in Swahili...I think when they see my blank/confused face they realise I haven't a clue what they said, and then laugh!
I'm finding the language barrier while on hospital abit of a challenge. I don't really know what is going on most of the time, and have to keep asking 'what did the patient say to me?', 'what did the doctor just say?'. It's slightly frustrating, but you just have to keep going with it.
The hospital is TOTALLY different from home. There is hardly any infection control, a serious lack of resources, and sometimes 2 people to a bed! The doctors know what they would do for a patient in an ideal world, but have to do the best job they can with the supplies that they have! Last week I spent 2 days in theater...I don't really ever get that squeamish, I can handle blood and guts pretty well, but there were a few times in theater when I got close to having to leave the operating room ...this is seriously saying something about how gruesome some of the operations have been. The other days I have just been on the ward. I'm on a surgical ward at the moment. I'm not getting to do as much hands on stuff as some of their other people in the house who are on different wards, apparent they found the same when they were on sugary! I'm hoping to move onto ob/gyn next week and that's meant to be really good. My room mate Emily is on there at the moment and she has delivered like 10 babies in 5 days!! I'm looking forward to going there!
Outside of the hospital I have been pretty busy too! The weather has been AWESOME! It's rained less than I was expecting. All the websites I checked out before I came said May was in the rainy season ...it has rained abit, but not half as much as I thought it would ...I'm not complaining, my tan is coming along nicely!
Five of us went to the local orphanage on Friday. Oh my word, I don't know where to start with this. So this orphanage was set up by an Evangelist pastor when he retired. There are 22 children I think, ranging from 6 months to 13 years. They are all so beautiful, and always smiling. They just LOVE to play with you, hold your hand ...and take your camera!! They re pretty practiced on the camera front, as soon as you get it out they ask you for it, they go around taking photo after photo, and video after video. Its slightly annoying because as they do this they also mess with the settings of your camera and delete all the photos already on there! But it great just seeing them play together, they are such a big family! All the older ones look out for the younger ones. This one little boy dropped his lolly so this older girl picked it up, went inside and washed it, and gave it back to him! It just makes you smile ...but its also really sad, because you know that none of these little kids have any family of their own. Most parents have died from HIV. It didn't hit me until we were leaving.
While you are at the orphanage playing with the kids, BaBa (their like 'grandma') makes chipati's for you to eat! This has to be the worst part of visiting there bay far ...not because they are bad, just because of the quantity of them! They are so thick and filling! You get given 7 of then, and are kinda expected to eat them all ...I'll tell you now this is IMPOSSIBLE!!! I felt so sick. The eldest girl, Naiomee, sits with you and keeps saying to you 'eat, eat!' ... We managed to eat 4 of them, sneak one and a half into our bags, and leave the rest!
Saturday was my birthday, and so I'm now officially 21 ...mann, I'm getting old haha! 5 of us went on a walk around Mt Meru which was really good! We saw a beautiful waterfall, some traditional huts ...it was nice to get out and do some exercise after all the food I've eaten (Tanzania is NOT good for getting a flat tummy at all!). When I got home I walked into a chorus of 'happy birthday' and a huge huge cake that Witness made. A few of the girls had got me a little prezzie too which was really sweet of them.
Oh pants, I only have 6 mins left of Internet! Gona have to go now! I'll try and blog again soon ish!
Placement at the hospital is going OK, I'm finding it slightly harder to get into than placements in England but I was expecting that! The staff are all really welcoming which helps, and most speak a little English (some more than others!!). They love it when you try to speak Swahili to them though so I try my best! So I come in in the mornings are say 'shikamo! habari za asubuhi? Nzuri sana asante' and that's it...that's most of my Swahili vocab used! But after coming out with a Swahili greeting they then think you know more, and so start talking away to you in Swahili...I think when they see my blank/confused face they realise I haven't a clue what they said, and then laugh!
I'm finding the language barrier while on hospital abit of a challenge. I don't really know what is going on most of the time, and have to keep asking 'what did the patient say to me?', 'what did the doctor just say?'. It's slightly frustrating, but you just have to keep going with it.
The hospital is TOTALLY different from home. There is hardly any infection control, a serious lack of resources, and sometimes 2 people to a bed! The doctors know what they would do for a patient in an ideal world, but have to do the best job they can with the supplies that they have! Last week I spent 2 days in theater...I don't really ever get that squeamish, I can handle blood and guts pretty well, but there were a few times in theater when I got close to having to leave the operating room ...this is seriously saying something about how gruesome some of the operations have been. The other days I have just been on the ward. I'm on a surgical ward at the moment. I'm not getting to do as much hands on stuff as some of their other people in the house who are on different wards, apparent they found the same when they were on sugary! I'm hoping to move onto ob/gyn next week and that's meant to be really good. My room mate Emily is on there at the moment and she has delivered like 10 babies in 5 days!! I'm looking forward to going there!
Outside of the hospital I have been pretty busy too! The weather has been AWESOME! It's rained less than I was expecting. All the websites I checked out before I came said May was in the rainy season ...it has rained abit, but not half as much as I thought it would ...I'm not complaining, my tan is coming along nicely!
Five of us went to the local orphanage on Friday. Oh my word, I don't know where to start with this. So this orphanage was set up by an Evangelist pastor when he retired. There are 22 children I think, ranging from 6 months to 13 years. They are all so beautiful, and always smiling. They just LOVE to play with you, hold your hand ...and take your camera!! They re pretty practiced on the camera front, as soon as you get it out they ask you for it, they go around taking photo after photo, and video after video. Its slightly annoying because as they do this they also mess with the settings of your camera and delete all the photos already on there! But it great just seeing them play together, they are such a big family! All the older ones look out for the younger ones. This one little boy dropped his lolly so this older girl picked it up, went inside and washed it, and gave it back to him! It just makes you smile ...but its also really sad, because you know that none of these little kids have any family of their own. Most parents have died from HIV. It didn't hit me until we were leaving.
While you are at the orphanage playing with the kids, BaBa (their like 'grandma') makes chipati's for you to eat! This has to be the worst part of visiting there bay far ...not because they are bad, just because of the quantity of them! They are so thick and filling! You get given 7 of then, and are kinda expected to eat them all ...I'll tell you now this is IMPOSSIBLE!!! I felt so sick. The eldest girl, Naiomee, sits with you and keeps saying to you 'eat, eat!' ... We managed to eat 4 of them, sneak one and a half into our bags, and leave the rest!
Saturday was my birthday, and so I'm now officially 21 ...mann, I'm getting old haha! 5 of us went on a walk around Mt Meru which was really good! We saw a beautiful waterfall, some traditional huts ...it was nice to get out and do some exercise after all the food I've eaten (Tanzania is NOT good for getting a flat tummy at all!). When I got home I walked into a chorus of 'happy birthday' and a huge huge cake that Witness made. A few of the girls had got me a little prezzie too which was really sweet of them.
Oh pants, I only have 6 mins left of Internet! Gona have to go now! I'll try and blog again soon ish!
Monday, 2 May 2011
jambo tanzania
So I`m offically in tanzania...its amazing, and so so beautiful!
I arrived sat night, my flights were fine, a little bit of turbulance but not troo bad, and they were both on time which was good! I was kinda gutted to have landed in the dark! Apparently you fly over the top of kilimanjaro, but I didnt get to see that! The programme manager Freddy met me there are we drove about 50 mins to the house!
The house is awesome, it`s sooo nice! And the people that are already here are lovely, really welcoming! I think there are about 20 or so people in the house with me! There are 8 ish people from Hong Kong, but we dont see them much! But there is a group of like 10 gilrs who are so lovely, some leave next weekend which I`m alrealy sad about!
On sunday I had a long sleep in, I was shattered!! Then we made pancakes for breakfast...mmm! We went to a place called 'players' in the afternoon -it`s like a pool/bar, really nice place to chill out! Think I might be there a fair bit in the next 4 weeks! Walking there was the first time I really saw Arusha in day light. The roads are like big mud tracks, crazy! You can see Mt Meru from our house too which is amazing!
When we got home, another girl had arrived. She is called Emily and she is from Canada, we are sharing a room! Its nice to have someone else who is new too!
Last night we went out for food! Usually during weekdays we have a cook who makes our meals, but weekends we fend for ourselves...so we went out and had like tapas! I ate soo much, and the food and drink is really cheap (Tsh 10,000 for LOADS of food and a drink...sounds a lot but its just under ten pounds - there is no pound sign on this computer haha). The taxi there was quite a journey...so there were 8 of us girls, plus John the taxi driver, and we all fit in one taxi...which is just as nomal car! So John was obviously driving, there were 2 gils on the front seat, and then 6 of us in the back, 3 sitting on the seats, then 3 on their laps! And this is perfectly fine to do in Tanzania, no one bats an eyelid! The roads are pretty bumpy so its not the most comfortable, but hey, we all got there in one peice so its all good!
I`m currently in Arusha having my orientation around the town! Freddy and Brian (who is the assistant programme manager) are showing us how to catch the dala dala (which is a crazy full bus), getting us set up with phones, money, ect ect! There is a lot to take in, its pretty overwhelming! But there people here are so friendly! ...I've been proposed to twice already haha! I`d be flattered but its just because I`m a muzungu (white person) which is a sign of money and wealth!
Anyway, I'm going to have to go now because my time on this computer is running out! I`m having a great time so far and I think that these 4 weeks are going to fly by! I`ll try and post some more entries at some point! xxx
I arrived sat night, my flights were fine, a little bit of turbulance but not troo bad, and they were both on time which was good! I was kinda gutted to have landed in the dark! Apparently you fly over the top of kilimanjaro, but I didnt get to see that! The programme manager Freddy met me there are we drove about 50 mins to the house!
The house is awesome, it`s sooo nice! And the people that are already here are lovely, really welcoming! I think there are about 20 or so people in the house with me! There are 8 ish people from Hong Kong, but we dont see them much! But there is a group of like 10 gilrs who are so lovely, some leave next weekend which I`m alrealy sad about!
On sunday I had a long sleep in, I was shattered!! Then we made pancakes for breakfast...mmm! We went to a place called 'players' in the afternoon -it`s like a pool/bar, really nice place to chill out! Think I might be there a fair bit in the next 4 weeks! Walking there was the first time I really saw Arusha in day light. The roads are like big mud tracks, crazy! You can see Mt Meru from our house too which is amazing!
When we got home, another girl had arrived. She is called Emily and she is from Canada, we are sharing a room! Its nice to have someone else who is new too!
Last night we went out for food! Usually during weekdays we have a cook who makes our meals, but weekends we fend for ourselves...so we went out and had like tapas! I ate soo much, and the food and drink is really cheap (Tsh 10,000 for LOADS of food and a drink...sounds a lot but its just under ten pounds - there is no pound sign on this computer haha). The taxi there was quite a journey...so there were 8 of us girls, plus John the taxi driver, and we all fit in one taxi...which is just as nomal car! So John was obviously driving, there were 2 gils on the front seat, and then 6 of us in the back, 3 sitting on the seats, then 3 on their laps! And this is perfectly fine to do in Tanzania, no one bats an eyelid! The roads are pretty bumpy so its not the most comfortable, but hey, we all got there in one peice so its all good!
I`m currently in Arusha having my orientation around the town! Freddy and Brian (who is the assistant programme manager) are showing us how to catch the dala dala (which is a crazy full bus), getting us set up with phones, money, ect ect! There is a lot to take in, its pretty overwhelming! But there people here are so friendly! ...I've been proposed to twice already haha! I`d be flattered but its just because I`m a muzungu (white person) which is a sign of money and wealth!
Anyway, I'm going to have to go now because my time on this computer is running out! I`m having a great time so far and I think that these 4 weeks are going to fly by! I`ll try and post some more entries at some point! xxx
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