Hi all, I had a really great time in Zanzibar. Got the bus at 7am on Friday, feeling very tierd and slightly hungover from the night before. Arrived at Dar es Saalam at 3.30pm, the last ferry to Zanzibar left at 4pm so it was a mad rush to get in a taxi and then buy the ferry tickets. I managed to get there with 10 minutes to spare, and thew up on the 2hr crossing! Eventually made it to Kendwa rocks (a beach resort at the north of the island) by 8pm. I met a South African guy there, Warren [View Full Entry]

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Hello! I know I said I'd write more often but I feel like I've been dead busy. Looking back on it though, haven't really done much! I guess I'm just lazy! Last Last Thursday we went to Prison Island. Its called Prison sland because the Zanzibarians started to build a prison there. When it was finished, however, there was a massive outbreak of cholera on the mainland so the building was used as a quarantine facility for people showing symptoms coming across to the islands. Now the building is a very expensive restaurant but the island is also home to a [View Full Entry]

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Hi everybody. This will be the final post on this blog for my semester abroad. I'm going to keep it active so you and others can look at it and the pics. Yet it will also stay alive because I will continue to post on it. Likely when I travel, this will be the place where I update yall but I also might do a couple Lancaster editions too (plenty of adventures there too ya know). As always, thanks so much for reading. Hope that you've enjoyed reading it as much as I have enjoyed writing it. Hope you've tried to [View Full Entry]

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"Hooray he's alive!!!" I know most of you are saying that right now. Its been seemingly forever since I last posted here. "Oh darn, he was better off missing" is what my enemies are saying right now, dissappointed to hear that I have, in fact, survived my three weeks in Muungoni, Zanzibar and month long research project. But I am alive, I swear. Also, I have no idea why my enemies would read my blog. Ok, so studying traditional medical practices and medicinal plants in Muungoni was, in short, awesome. Learned so much, not only about my project but just about [View Full Entry]

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Hey guys! Sorry I haven't written in a while but have been quite busy here so got loads to tell you....you might want to get yourself a cuppa because this could take a while! The first Monday I was here was Easter Monday so no-one went into the hospital. It was also Brian's (one of the medics) birthday so to celebrate we had a sunset dhow ride from Stone Town. It was really nice and there was a band playing as well as lots of wine! When we came back we had a bbq and a house party (which involved 6 [View Full Entry]

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mambo friends!! got to be quick as usual coz the computers in Africa are rubbish. so... i made it to Africa... finally! when i arrived in dar i was told that my visa was about to expire (a mix up with the way they worked on my part...hmm...a slight waste of 50 quid), so i had to spend ages going to the cash point, then converting the Tanzania shillings into us dollars (coz thats the only currency they would take for visas!) then going back to immigration to sort it all out. grrr. finally sorted it out and headed to the [View Full Entry]

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Hey eveyone! Happy Easter! Hope you're all ok. I've been a busy bee this week so I'd better get started!!! To be honest, my week started off pretty quietly. Monday we went to Coco Beach, the hotel and beach resort and sunbathed all day (got a nice top-up to my tan!) Monday night we all went out for a chinese because Matt was leaving Tuesday and I was leaving Wednesday. After driving around for about 20 minutes in the taxi trying to find the place (the taxi driver insisted he knew where he was going!) we sat down and ordered our [View Full Entry]

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A couple misc notes. First, a word to the seniors (and the super-super seniors) at F&M, fear not, I think I'll be at your graduation. I'll be the one with a box of tissues, balling my eyes out. Second, a shoutout to Eagles Nest, I miss everybody a ton. Glad to hear you are enjoying the blog and hopefully you are learning some stuff. I hope all the 5th graders are having a great spring and excited about Middle School. I hope everybody is still loving Eagles Nest and telling Janelle and the volunteers how awesome and fantabulous they are each [View Full Entry]

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I'm staying with another student in Muungoni, though we're studying different things here. Maggie is studying birds on a nearby island, (appropriately named Bird Island) which is a pretty cool project. Every morning, hundreds (maybe thousands) of birds leave this mangrove island in the middle of this large river and every night, they return. So she goes out there in the morning and in the evening to observe the different species, watch their activity, and count their numbers. I've gone with her twice now, seen lotsa birds and two beautiful sunsets over the island and river. On Thursday, we [View Full Entry]

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I'm staying with another student in Muungoni, though we're studying different things here. Maggie is studying birds on a nearby island, (appropriately named Bird Island) which is a pretty cool project. Every morning, hundreds (maybe thousands) of birds leave this mangrove island in the middle of this large river and every night, they return. So she goes out there in the morning and in the evening to observe the different species, watch their activity, and count their numbers. I've gone with her twice now, seen lotsa birds and two beautiful sunsets over the island and river. On Thursday, we [View Full Entry]

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