Just a quick update! After our Lake Turkana trip we spent about 4 days with Hannah's old host-father and he took us to see a lot of the work he does with the development organisation he works with and it was so amazing. He works with small, struggling families right through to self-sufficient, environmentall friendly orphanages. After this we headed to Tanzania (with a lot of issues on the way involving passports and borders...) and onto Zanzibar where we are now. We've spent the last week relaxing on the beach, eating delicious sea food, partying at full moon parties, wandering the [View Full Entry]

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Sooo just a quick update on the last couple of weeks. After debrief in Iringa we had a big closing ceremony which was really nice (we got t-shirts) and then headed to Dar to spend our last couple of days together before most of the int volunteers flew out and the nationals went to uni. It was a hectic couple of days, emotions were high and we all felt a sense of impending doom with their approaching departure. We had a lot of fun though but going to the airport to say goodbye was one of the hardest things ive ever [View Full Entry]

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Well I've finished with my placement. We had our community festival on Sunday and the finals of our sports league. It was a stressful affair because the day before everything looked like it was going to fail miserably but luckily on the day things seemed to mostly work themselves out. We had a guest speaker from VCT who spoke really well about AIDS and the importance of testing and unfortunately we couldnt get the mobile testing like they'd promised because they just told us that day that its not possible (TIT!!). We also had most of the village leaders and important [View Full Entry]

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Yayy..im super happy right now because all my blogs have come back! I was stressing out when they all disappeared because im stupid and dont record events and stuff in my diary so this was my only record of my life here! haha...i think mum you should print them all out right now!! WHenever i write a new one, print it! Only 2 weeks left in placement and then a 3 day debrief and celebration in Iringa and its all over. I can't believe it. Athough I'm going to be sad to leave all my friends, students and my Tanzanian family [View Full Entry]

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Firstly my little calf died :( I came back from Njombe and it wasn't there and Fledita informed me that kitoto kimekufe (baby cow has died). I was so sad, i bet it was those damn ants!! Anyway other than that sadness things are good. I went to Njombe on friday on a motorcycle (2.5hrs) and my god...pain!!! The roads are pretty bad here so it was extremely bumpy and the motorbike didnt have very good suspension, i almost flew off a few times but the pain was intense. When I got off I almost fell over and had to get [View Full Entry]

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So this week has been a busy week because I've been here alone, my partner has been lost in a void and has messaged me saying she is coming back tomorrow, only 2 weeks late! Primary school started yesterday and I ended up finishing the lessons quite quickly, its hard for me to answer questions (because of my swahili) so we played games for the rest of the lesson. I've heard the kids out in the playground playing the games, it was fun! Yesterday I had a CAG (community action group) meeting which was really tough because my swahili is pretty [View Full Entry]

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More pics Africa » Tanzania » Iringa » Njombe By Sadha July 7th 2007 SadhaJust a few more pics. Had monthly meeting yesterday, in August we will be running an HIV/AID Testing day for our village where lots of villagers will test (hopefully!) and also a community festival with the fi [View Full Entry]

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Things I love about africa (at this moment! Hehe) -when young kids in the street come up and put their hands on your head and then to your chest which means shikamoo and pole na kazi (respectful greeting and sorry for your work) -the beautiful and varied landscape -how everyone greets everyone, you’re never in too much of a rush to stop and greet a friend or acquaintance. -Dancing in the living room with 5 little girls to bongo flavour music -Teaching flavia to say bomba, poa and sadha -Teaching all the little children who live near me that my name [View Full Entry]

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ok only have 3 mins time left, uploaded some photos will put some more up tomoz and finish this blog - i wrote a relaly long blog yesterday but comp died and i lost it...TIT!!!! Ok so our holiday was spent chilling out, doing things very un-african. Everything we did was such a luxury and things we hadn't done for up to 6 months!! We spent a day at a beautiful beach 10mins out of dar central and were the only wazungu there which was fun. We went to the movies twice and saw Pirates 3 and Oceans 13, we [View Full Entry]

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I'm in Dar and Hannah is sitting right next to me. I'm so unbelievably happy right now!!! We arrived in Dar on wednesday, 6 hours late (14hrs on a bus) and after a small incidence with a pepsi bottle through our windscreen. We were all ok, just a few scratches but we had to wait around for hours while people got fixed up at the hospital and spoke to the police. We finally arrived at 8.30 and from the time between getting off the bus and into the taxi some talented pickpocket managed to get my phone from inside my bag [View Full Entry]

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