My problems with my stupid host mum have been "resolved" in that I have now moved host family. I now live with the people who run SOK, the company we did safari and Kili with, and they are so nice, they are some of the nicest people i have ever met and they also live in luxury (tanzanian luxury that is) - i now have a shower ! with hot water, they say, but so far i've only had a freezing cold shower. But I really don't care about that. My host dad is called Sebastian, he's quite a big [View Full Entry]

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Okay so as a follow up on my boastful "I'm gonna climb Kili" shit I would like to let everyone know that I admit defeat. I started off well, got to 4000 and, whilst looking at the amazing view, hurt my ankle. It's my own fault really, we were walking on basically just rocks and I should know by now that luck doesn't really cling to me.. so anyway, our guide Richard told me I should go down as my ankle would need rest and a top of a mountain really wasnt the best place for that. Totally bummed me out. [View Full Entry]

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So Alice and I have been here in Zanzibar on the north-west coast since wednesday and it's absolutely brilliant! It's pure paradise. I love it ! The sea is so blue/green and the sand is so white, it's like flour. The days we've had here have been amazing.. We live in a small hut with 2 double beds and a bathroom with flushing toilet and a shower! The shower is amazing after only using buckets for the past 6 weeks unfortunatly there was only luke warm water the first night so it's been freezing cold showers ever since. We've spent a [View Full Entry]

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Oh and a quick one just to inform everyone of the coolest thing in the world! In Tanzania you can get a licence to kill!!!! If someone steals your money, car or goat/cow whatever, you can go to the police who are really lazy so they will issue you a licence saying if you ever see the person again, you have permission to kill him! That is seriously great (and totally awful I know) but you can actually have chance at being 007.. But people around here are not shy to kill people tho. Alice who lives out in nowhere saw [View Full Entry]

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So Alice and I go to Zanzibar on Wednesday!! and we start climbing Kili in a week and 3 days. Shit. Can't wait. In the next three days I'll be living by the ATMs as we both have to pay for Kili (1000 USD) and get money out to last us in Zanzibar as apparently VISA sucks there and you cant get any money out. Which is really weird since it's a tourist haven. The ATM of course has a daily limit and often they dont work so I'm gonna take as much out as poss today, tmr and tuesday. I [View Full Entry]

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I've done the most amazing buy - a camera with film! I thought I was buying a disposable camera for 20000 tsh but it turned out to be a film camera, even better! so I've bought a load of film rolls so i can start retaking a lot of my lost pics. Only problem is that you cant zoom, you have just lean in closer .. Have also been (almost) convinced into climbing Mt Kilimanjaro.. I'm hesitating because it costs A LOT (see approx 1000 USD!) and i'm not sure if my fitness levels are quite up to it after some [View Full Entry]

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Okay so it's been like 3 weeks since my last entry.. that's because I'm sorta reluctant to spend my money and I have to buy 2 hrs internet to write here as the webpage is insanely slow. Anyway a lot has happened in the last 3 weeks.. mainly crap but also good stuff. Main crapness is that my camera was stolen. I have been seriously unlucky with all this picture/electronics stuff. I bought a new USB before coming here so i could copy the pictures i took from my camera to my usb and from that upload it online so that [View Full Entry]

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So we're into September now - apparently the rainy season is supposed to start around the end of september/beginning of obtober - great. Just what I came here for, rain. The upside of it will be that it wont be so dusty here - I've gotten used to being dirty all the time .. the minute you step outside you're covered with dust and especially after spending 5 hours at Shalom with the kids. I'm used to the kids now and they're used to me (I think), they're really sweet and funny. Brielle left for Canada wednesday but luckily two more [View Full Entry]

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Okay, my first entry from le country of Tanzania! I had a pretty good trip from Heathrow (via Rome) to Addis and also from Addis to Kilimanjaro (via Nairobi). I had a little panic moment on the flight to Kili as it said on the flight "going to Nairobi" which I didn't know! I asked the stewardess who said I was on the wrong flight. Shit. Luckily she went up front and asked and came back saying everything was alright, it was going via Nairobi. Phew! Practivally everyone got off in Nairobi and we were probably 15 people in a huge [View Full Entry]

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