With the plans for the summer starting, we wanted to have a little bit of time with Joshua before the campaign started. As most mom’s and dad’s, we are thrilled to have Joshua home, under the same roof as us. “Uncle Sam” basically paid for Joshua’s trip this year and for that we are thankful. We wanted to have some time alone with him and do something cool that was different. The campaign is three weeks long and pretty much consumes the entire day, 6 days of the week. We didn't really want to go to another park ... plus this [View Full Entry]

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Sorry this entry was lost in the Travel Blog Crash.. But at least we can still enjoy the pictures ~Julie [View Full Entry]

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Ngorogoro  Africa » Tanzania » Ngorogoro Crater By Tamsin June 15th 2007 Tamsin Sebba Friday 15th Amazing morning - 6.30 breakfast (with another hot chocolate) and then drove down into the Crater. The first thing that we saw was nine lionesses and one lion. They looked like they were stalking a warthog, but it noticed & ran off. Insid [View Full Entry]

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Wed 13th Ok another long drive but it was worth it. Read a lot of my book. The last bit of the road was bumpy but nothing compared with Kenya. Drove past the Nogorogoro Crater and drove along the edge, before continuing for another three hours to the Serengeti. I said to our guide that I wanted to see an adult male lion, and 10 mins later we saw one! Then Sean requested a leopard and in the next hour we came across one in a tree. It was too good to be true! We also saw lots of zebra [View Full Entry]

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The new volunteers have arrived and settled in, and although it is strange getting to know a whole new group of people, it is also a lot of fun. The age range in this group is more varied (the previous one was almost entirely college students), and it is interesting to see the differences in topics of conversation. Last Sunday we went to church with the boys from the Centre. It was a three hour service, but really didn't feel that long, because we only ever sat down for about 7 minutes at a time. It had a very relaxed atmosphere, [View Full Entry]

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45 apparently. 50 if I adorn myself with jewellry. Not quite the 500 I asked for. Apparently Mike the Maasai has only 60 cows but his father has 1500 and he reckons his community would be able to pitch in and help him and would I take 450? I wasn't expecting this. What do you reckon dad? Got somewhere to keep 450 cows? I have been having quite the time with the Maasai community lately. A lot of people here really don't like them. They are often not called by name (and instead just 'hey maasai'). The reasons I have [View Full Entry]

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Monday 11th Said good bye to mum and got in “mum’s tour company” shuttle over to Stone town and the ferry to the main land. I saw more of the hussel and bustle of town as we drove through and I’m glad we didn’t stay there. As I went through immigration (even though I was staying in Tanzania) I asked a girl behind me if she was on a tour and she was- The Nomad tour that I was joining! Perfect. I sat with her (Sarah) as we went on the ferry over to Dar Es Salaam on the main [View Full Entry]

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KARIBU - I have never heard to word welcome more in 30 years than I have in the past three weeks living in Tanzania. Some of the things, phrases or otherwise I have come to love over the past weeks. Hujambo, Mambo, Jambo, Habari, Safi, Poa, Dole, Nzuri, Shikamo, Marahaba, Karibu sana, Asante sana- For the most part you can get by with the words above. All are different greetings, all are used all the time. The are sometimes different based on age and gender, but some combination fo the greetings above and you you can get a good conversation rolling. [View Full Entry]

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I have some good news - I got my luggage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Extremely happy about this! June 9th has been declared national bag day. We had a lot of help from Paradise. We actually met Paradise the night I arrived. An American girl, Liz, arrived on the same flight as me. She was going to be doing a similar volunteer project (but through a different company), and had not been met at the airport. We ended up taking her with our group, and dropping her off at a hotel in town, where she was met by her project leader, Paradise. He made quite [View Full Entry]

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We just returned from the Massai village on the border of Tanzania and Kenya. I am still covered in the red dust of the most remote parts of this country. We drove roughly 3 hours north from Arusha towards Kenya to get to the Massai village where we would spend the weekend. Once we passed through Arusha only an empty road lay ahead and and the occasional Massai herder with his cows. We finally stopped just shy of the Kenya border and pulled off the road (main North/South road in Africa - runs from Cairo to Capetown and would hardly be [View Full Entry]

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