Hello again, Well i'm all finished in Rulenge now, we drove back to Mwanza and the Tanzanian office on tuesday - another very dusty long drive. I am now sitting in the Sunshine Motel in Kahama using a GPRS connection that is surprisingly good here. That is one thing I have found about Tanz., they may not have tar roads everywhere, or hot water where they have hot water taps but they have fantastic phone reception in the most remote places! So I had a day in Mwanza, not a day off however as Robert and myself were preparing for the [View Full Entry]

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Tomorrow is our last day on project - hard to believe that 3 weeks have gone by already. Monday was a public holiday so I went with Boon in the morning to help out at his project and then went and had lunch with my ladies. They are so great - the lunch consisted of Ugali (maize stuff that looks like mashed potato kinda) plus fried whole fish, spinach and fruit... they also bought sodas for us all which I think was a bit of a treat from them. I got a couple of cool photos so I'll post those when [View Full Entry]

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We went to go see the Saa Nane (8:00, or maybe 2:00 if it was read in Swahili time) Museum on Wednesday afternoon. The Lonely Planet Guidebook describes it as a place of weird and quirky things. Basically, a guy with a foot fetish started a museum dedicated to the feet of all creatures, from humans to...well, we don't really know. We (Ryan, Ashley Burns, and I) located it on the map and walked towards it. We finally arrived at the place where the museum should have been, but there wasn't really a sign to the museum. We enter the grounds [View Full Entry]

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happy birthday dad - i'm gonna try to call if i can find airtime for my phone. arusha is really beautiful, but it's cold. not minnesota style cold, but still cold. i'm at the ictr library trying to work on another paper right now. some people are going to hike mt. kili.... tomorrow and then most of us are going to go on an overnight safari this weekend to the crater. it should be pretty awesome. i'm excited. we have less than a week left in the program and then it's off to zanzibar for me. [View Full Entry]

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I'm leaving for Africa in one day. Busy printing out pictures at the moment to take with me in a photo album. I'm very excited. Going to town soon to buy last minute things that I need. Hopefully I'll be able to get on the internet every day when I'm out there to add a new entry. Keep a look out :) Caitlin x [View Full Entry]

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Did a morning run, found a very neat path leads right to Mt. Meru, almost no traffic, got huge trees on each side, passed by a fancy club called Gymknaka, it's a private club for members only, they even have 2-3 tennis court, very neat, but apparently drop in is not allowed. on the otherside is High Court, pretty cool too. Aziz took us to the central market to practice bargaining, which is quite useful, since all the numbers becoming making sense now, we had a list of stuffs to buy, got all of them with a decent price, I bought [View Full Entry]

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and i don't have enough airtime to call him... so dad - happy birthday. [View Full Entry]

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I need to relate two daladala experiences with everyone. One is from Monday, one from today. On Monday, I went to the Saba Saba day celebrations (see previous entry). Our daladala had a live chicken in the back. And this chicken was not in any sort of cage. Now, to be fair, none of us knew that there was a live chicken in the trunk until about halfway through the trip when we started hearing noises. Since all daladala windows are practically permanently open, we figured that the noises were coming from outside. Until they seemed to follow us. Since we [View Full Entry]

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Dear Blog Readers, There is power today in the town of Kilosa so we can get on-line. The last few times we've tried, we haven't been able to log on, or after walking 1/2 hour to town, the power was still out, etc. So, to bring you up to date, here's goes! The training has been intense 8 to 5, 6 days a week. On Sunday it's walk to church for a 2 hr. service, wash clothes by hand, do homework, help prepare the meals, and in bed by 9. The Kiswahili language has been very difficult for me, but I'm [View Full Entry]

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I took the hour long trip to the Kilimanjaro Airport by taxi, and was lucky enough to be driven by a considerate man who called himself ‘Fresh’ (possibly insane) and couldn’t speak English. I know he was considerate because when he saw that I was a whitey, he dug out a cassette of 80’s pop love songs and put it on for me, giving me a knowing smile and turning the volume right up before it even had a chance to begin. It was thanks to Fresh that I had the fortune of spending my last moments in Africa with Whitney [View Full Entry]

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