http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/LKT/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from LKT en-us Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:33:42 +0000 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:33:42 +0000 Mambo We are writing from a nice airconditioned Internet Cafe in Stonetown Zanzibar literally a 30 second walk away from the beach. It's hard to believe that tomorrow we leave already...this adventure has positively FLOWN byWe left Tanga on Sunday to stay with a friend in Dar es Salaam for a night we actually ended up watching Transformers 2 on the LARGEST SCREEN IN EAST AFRICA Can't http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/blog-418472.html Hello to all We've had a VERY eventful past few days after returning from Moshi. Wednesday and Thursday afternoons were packed full of bonding time with our beloved girls at the orphanage and on Wednesday evening Tom and I actually bopped over to Popetlal Secondary School to check out what we heard was a pretty vibrant Ultimate Frisbee culture here in Tanga and we weren't disappointed Such http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/East/Tanga/blog-417446.html Hellohello A quick blog update now before we have lunch plans with another wonderful Rotarian...Monday and Tuesday we made an excursion to Moshi TZ which is a little markettown at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro. The 6hour bus ride was outrageous in every way but the price only 11000 Tsh or about 8 USD truly an African safari adventure It was cloudy on the drive in and as we checked i http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-416378.html What a day Yesterday was a full day of festivities for Tanga's Rotary Club. First was the opening of a new footbridge for a school whose students were crossing a 50foot ravine on a bridge made of wood and rope...incredible...then to the opening of the two new classrooms and a teachers' workroom at Majenga School which was unbelievably powerful. The building is BEAUTIFUL I can't wait to http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/East/Tanga/blog-415403.html Finally Another blog post. We've had some Internet problems...Tuesday night we didn't have a chance to update and last night there was a brownout in the city so our region of Tanga had no power. It's Africa we go with the flow D Our past few days have been absolutely phenomenal...our favorite memories have DEFINITELY taken place at The Stehmann House which is the orphanage we work at e http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/East/Tanga/blog-414534.html MamboWe have finally arrived. We attempted to blog last night and in fact had a full page written after an hour on what quite possibly was the slowest Internet connection since Reagan was in office when the connection decided to black out. And so we will only paraphrase our last few moments in Dubai...The highlight of our Saturday certainly was the surprise visit to the Rashid Government Hos http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/East/Tanga/blog-413433.html Hello all Tom and I are updating from the lobby of the Traders Hotel by Shangrila in Dubai United Arab Emirates after paying 20 Dirhams equivalent USD 6 for a 45minute Internet session. Unfortunately we won't be able to upload pictures to this blog throughout the trip because we don't have a mechanism to bring them from the camera to the Internet...so keep an eye out for them on this blog http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/United-Arab-Emirates/Dubai/blog-412569.html Tom and I are getting SO excited we'll try to update this blog a few times a week while we're gone so all our beloved friends and supporters who have made this dream FINALLY become a reality can travel along with us http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/East/Tanga/blog-410973.html