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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This week has gone so fast. We have fallen into the routine of life over here so naturally and I feel like I've been here forever. I can't believe that 15 days ago we were in London. It's the end of the minimum two week stay here so we have been saying bye to a few people yesterday and today - I'm most sad to see Lori & Jennifer go - they are a mother and daughter from Hawaii and California and they were great fun. I would have loved to have found out more about Jenny's late teens and twenties..... [View Full Entry]

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I am learning the meaning of 'Pole Pole' the hard way. It means 'slowly slowly' and is a mantra for African living. Things just happen here on a different time scale with different priorities. Today we had some time to kill after we had eaten lunch and before we had to go to our afternoon projects so we decided to get a coffee, which we ordered at 1pm. By 1.40 we thought we better ask if it was coming because we had to go at 2pm... 'yes yes it is coming - pole pole'. Phew, it's a far cry from London [View Full Entry]

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The 25th of June is now a dedicated day of celebration for all Art in Tanzania volunteers. Yesterday was just one of those days for everyone. The torrential rain (yes, we all thought we were going in dry season) of Tuesday had stopped and the rivers of mud were drying, the sun was out.... and so was Mt Kilimajaro - which was an amazing sight - so close but so mysterious and imposing too - I can see why a trek to the top can take 7 days. My projects are going really well, Wes & Ciara were told that there [View Full Entry]

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Made it safe, with bags = happy. I'm now on day 4 and finally have a spare hour or so for some internetting. We left early on Friday morning from our (what now seems very palacial) flat and said goodbye to our flatties which was very strange. I've spent my whole London life living with Bay and over 2 years living in 20a. The process of getting on the flight was relatively painless - especially when we learned later that the Nairobi flight before ours was cancelled and the volunteers are still waiting for their bags.... 3.5 days later. The funniest [View Full Entry]

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Sorry for all colleagues reading this. I am spending my last hours in front of my laptop setting up a travel blog.... before we head to the pub for lunch of course. 7 days to go until we fly out. Haven't washed, packed or cleaned a thing. Ha this next week is going to be funny. I will try and update this blog as often as I can. Not sure how much luck I will have in uploading photos while we are in Africa but can do it on mass when I get back to NZ (considering I'll be unemployed I [View Full Entry]

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