So all of the volunteers and I thought it would be nice to come together and make a thanksgiving feast. I was elected to head up the planning and preparations. WE had chicken (hard to find turkey), stuffing, garlic mashed potato, roasted sweet potato, gravy, and a salad. I was kind of nervous about cooking such an elaborate meal in this kitchen but it worked out great. I brined the chicken, and the oven actually cooked them perfectly, and the bread I used for the stuffing was ideal, and in fact probably the best stuffing I've ever made. We set up [View Full Entry]

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Awoke to thesound of rain and went to the rooftop restaurant for breakfast, It was very grey where we were headed so I was prepared for dissappointment. However by the time we had left to walk to the matatu, it had stopped and the sun was peeping out. The drive was about 2 hours long through little towns and villages and lush green vegetation. It is a really beautiful and bountiful island. Because of the tour yestersay I was able to spot many trees and shrubs. I even spotted another Kodak Palm, which is a palm that everyone takes photos of [View Full Entry]

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What a day! One of the best so far! We arose really early at about 4am and had a pick breakfast before piling into 2 taxis (one car, 1 matatu) to go to the ferry port. It was a lot less scary than before and I even fell asleep! We crossed over the bay on the little ferry without having to get out of the cars and were then dropped at the terminal for the ferry to Zanzibar. I saw all sorts of things being taken to the island - 1000 chicks in 10 cardboard boxees all madly chirping away, a [View Full Entry]

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My Friends and Family, Jambo! It's been too long! I'm sure by now you're nearly all convinced that I've been spending the past 3 months in the heart of East Africa serving, volunteering, and selflessly offering my love to anyone who will take it. Friends, I hate to tell ya this, but you've been sucked in to some sweet deception! In reality only 3 days ago I was lying on the powdery white beaches of Zanzibar Island, swimming in the brilliantely teal and almost too warm Indian Ocean, suffering from a brutal headache because I couldn't decide between the fishburger or [View Full Entry]

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Tanzania [View Full Entry]

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We left Snake park & drove all day east towards Dar Es Salaam, we camped at a remote site about 40 miles from the city. We had dinner & ended up playing drinking games for most of the night. We decamped early next morning & headed into Dar Es Salaam, then, drove to the Silver Sands hotel on the coast. We set up camp near the beach, & went for a swim in the Indian Ocean, the water was unusually warm & not very refreshing. Lucky cooked his last dinner for us, (he was not going to Zanzibar with us) We [View Full Entry]

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Trying to describe the beauty that is Zanzibar is a fruitless exercise in wasted energy. So, I will have to refer you to the pictures… We flew directly from Entebbe, Uganda to Zanzibar on Air Uganda. Overall, the flight experience was extremely positive and I would recommend taking this route rather then overland by bus. Especially, considering the fact that at the same time my friend Emerald’s bus from Kigali to Dar es Salaam was stuck in a ditch with a broken ball bearing and a detached wheel. After spending the night in a field they ended up having to catch [View Full Entry]

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Tanzania. We were all looking forward to Zanzibar and 4 days of relaxing. Beautiful beaches and no stress.....nice. We rented 250cc for 3 days and explored the island. Great fun!!!! Stone town was something special but not my kind of thing (marco), Camilla on the other hand loved it with lots of shopping....... We also found new temp weeding rings here:) felt naked without the rings.... After some great days we left this wonderful place and headed for the Ngorongoro crater. When we got to the top of the crater the view was breath taking, we have this on vid. If [View Full Entry]

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You know, it's nice when people I don't know message me or leave comments in response to my entries. However in response to the last entry I wrote on how Africa was wearing on me, seriously people, chill the fuck out yeah? I'm not sure if its that real Africa lovers have been following my blog or what, but when I write an entry explaining that I'm tired after 2+ months in Africa, I don't need anybody to tell me... Didn't you do any research before you went?... All the comforts you want are available if you want to spend the [View Full Entry]

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Hello all am currently in Rwanda but gonna do two blogs cos has been so long and I guess not many of you will be bothered to read 1 long one so if I do two u can read it wen uz are bored. So I will start were I left off, that nite after I done my last blog I went on a nite safari which was cool we had a crazy driver who sped around in the dark with only a torch for a light which was really cool, he was going at least 30/40mph off road was a [View Full Entry]

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