http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Tanzania , North , Moshi en-us Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:02:42 +0000 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:02:42 +0000 In the center of Moshi there are many volunteers and tourists so seeing them on the street is very common. However when you go into the residential areas there is sometimes great excitement from the children on seeing a mzungu white foreigner. Most will automatically assume that you are a teacher and many wazungu the plural form of mzungu are called mwalimu teacher. Many of the ch http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-450701.html Habari RafikiToday I will start publishing photos that I have taken from various spots in Tanzania. I will start off with a picture I took while on safari near Lake Eyasi on a visit to the Hadzabe tribe. I had heard contrasting opinions about visiting the Hadzabe whether it was in their best interest or not to have outside influences enter into their lives. After visiting I am not opposed t http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-447230.html Today is a dark day as I perform that which I swore I would never do. I am blogging. It just sounds wrong. But I am far too lazy to respond to individual emails and messages so this was the easiest route.Do not fret I will keep things short. So join me on this magical adventure into the lowest form of written word wont you FYI this site will not allow me to do apostrophes so I have opted t http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-445998.html Hi everyoneSo Zanzibar was a definite adventure. Me and Jason left at 6am on Saturday morning on a bus to Dar Es Salaam where we arrived just after the last ferry to the island had left so we had to stay a night in crap Dar at a hostel called the Jambo Inn. The Saturday night was pretty much just a boring layover until we could catch the first ferry in the morning to Stonetown.We arrived in Sto http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-445733.html Hello everyoneSorry it has been a while since I've done my last blog but it is so hot here and I always put it off for tomorrowI have been living in Moshi for about 2 months now and time is starting to wind down until my smaller journey to europe. I admit I am ready to move on but I could not have asked for more here during my stay in Moshi. The people the food the weather and fun were http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-443216.html Hi everyoneI just spent an hour writing this blog and then the computer crashed and I lost it all so this will be short and sweet as I don't feel like writing it all out again.Everything is well still living in Moshi and loving it but recently it was time to take a journey so heres what we did.Last week me and 6 friends from the hostel decided to take a 7 hour bus trip out of the province to http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-439015.html Talk about a walk in the clouds Edgar and I arrived in Nairobi Kenya on September 11 and took a shuttle to Moshi Tanzania a small town at the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro. The shuttle ride there was wild. It took 7 hrs and had to be on some of the worst roads I have ever been on. At some points we were literally bouncing out of or seats. However it was worth it as we saw the country side and the http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-438497.html Where to begin...If you know me you know I have never been much of an outdoorsman so my spur of the moment decision last week to climb a rather large mountain was a little out of the ordinary.Me and 4 others from the hostel booked with Bushmen Safari 5 stars to climb Mount Meru starting Saturday morning and returning Monday eveningSaturday morning we rode on the bus to Arusha national park a http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-434015.html Hello everyoneHave been in Tanzania for about 10 days now and I am enjoying it a lot.So far most of my time has been spent doing my volunteering in the morning at Kili Kids and relaxing all afternoon and night with the people from the hostel playing crib drinking beer and watching baywatch you wouldn't understandThis morning about 9 or 10 of us woke up and 2 of our Masai guards Yusef an http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-429460.html Mambo everyone Whats upSo I'm here my flight was very pleasant but long but I am finally living in Africa.I am currently staying at a place called Hostel Hoff Named after David Hasselhoff and it is quite an awesome place. I'm positive that I chose the best place in Moshi to stay the people I live with are really cool but there are only about 12 of us at the moment No other CDN's yet.. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-428081.html Hey everyoneFinally i have a fast internet so i think tomorrow i will bring my camera and try to load a few pictures up to facebookSo to tell you a little bit about my day. We woke up around 530 AM and made sandwiches and headed to the bus station on the dalla dalla now you guys know how much i love the dalla dalls but you know what or i am getting used to it ... or it was just not as crouded http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-426463.html Since I got here Irsquove wanted to visit a government school. Having seen them on Blue Peter and Comic Relief I wanted to see for myself how cramped the classrooms are and how few resources they have. Up until this week theyrsquove been on holiday so I only got to go yesterday to Meserani Primary. The school took about 30 minutes to walk to from the road across dust which was occasionally http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-421088.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 Even een kort berichtje vanuit TANZANIA. Best bizar om zo even 750 km verderop te zijn. Gisterenmorgen zijn we op het vliegtuig gestapt naar Kilimanjaro International Airport. Daar aangekomen moesten we ons eerst een weg banen door alle taxichauffeurs als zij zeggen dat er geen bus gaat willen wij dat niet geloven eerst zelf zien. Had ik al verteld dat we maar een klein beetje eigenwijs zijnToc http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-404623.html Hi all Irsquom coming to the end of my volunteering now. I finish teaching on Thursday and then travel to Zanzibar on Friday. Irsquom planning to meet up with Brendon another volunteer from the house in Kendwa rocks a beach resort in the north of the island on Sunday. I should be back in Moshi by Wednesday evening and then do some souvenir shopping and project visiting on Thursday and F http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-399880.html the internet is infrequent and unreliable in africa. much like telephones roads public transport and prices. enough said as to why this blog is delayed i think.so we arrived in moshi mid afternoon having caught a local bus from arusha where our taxi driver from the airport had categorically told us that if we caught that bus we were going to be mugged and killed so of course we must take his t http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-397514.html Hi allJust a quick update on whatrsquos going on down here in Tanzania.Irsquom half way in now and so I decided Irsquod set a Physics test on everything we have covered so far. The test is on measurement forces and density. Spent all of yesterday lunchtime photocopying it cost me 40000 TSH around 20 pounds and took 2 hours due to the sheer number of papers required 320 double sided http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-394845.html Conclusionshellip Irsquoll leave out the photos and make the conclusion much easier to get through than the great African novel of the last updatehellipSo leaving off somewhere around the other side of Arusha direct sunlight streaming through the barely ajar window a phone call and numerous texts between Canada and myself as I ventured a surprise visit back to Moshi only to hear news of Ot http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-394287.html Tuesday March 24 2009 Just a quick line Today we went to the grocery market and handed out tracts in Moshi for every one tract you hand out an estimated 10 people will read it and Brad taught at the Moshi Bible School. We went back to Arusha that night. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-393074.html Hi allThe teaching here is going well. The school I teach at is called Anna Mkapa Secondary and is about a 40 minute walk from the house. It's in a run down area of Moshi and I regularly get swarmed by kids on the way who are forever shouting Muzungu White person and good morning to me even if it is the afternoon. The school didn't have a physics teacher so thats where I fit in. I te http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Moshi/blog-391516.html