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December 24th 2011

Published: December 24th 2011

Hello everyone! Since last post I have left the School with great sadness. The people there, both fellow teachers and students left an indelible mark on me. I do, and will, miss them. Good and decent people, all of them. Now I am back on the road and I have to admit that Tanzania is a tough country to travel in. Far harder then I expected however the Tanzanians make it easier by being so nice.... Read Full Entry

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From what I have seen, most rural Tanzanians live in Villages like this.

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The head followed us home. Ok, enough of the gruesome shots. Sorry if you don’t like this sort of thing.

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At the bus station in Dodoma. They love Osama over here. They don’t get embroiled in US politics but they are proud that a black man has made it to such a position.

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Footballness is next to Godliness.

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Unemployment is high here so chaps have lots of time to sit around and play games.

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My last view of Kibondo bus stand. I was happy to leave. Due to a “misunderstanding” with my bus ticket, I was stranded there for six hours becoming a Muzungu magnet for very drunk and bloodshot eyed mad man in the town. One man had his testicles hanging out of his trousers, he decided to sit next to me for a chat.

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Much of the Tanzanian economy is very rural and poor.

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Lake Tanganika. The boat wasn’t going so I decided a swim would suffice.

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I met some Indian workers at the shore. We spent the whole evening together drinking. They were funny and charming.

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These people have music in their DNA, much more so than we do. I love it. So very much. This girl could barely walk but she could dance.

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One of the Indian workers. He had three mobile phones all on separate networks and not one of them worked. He spent hours trying to call his Taxi driver, because the hotel didn’t have a working phone either. This is Tanzania. I am not sure it will ever change.

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This is the departure lounge of Kigoma airport.

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This is the queue for the plane. It is basically a bus that can fly. I was expecting someone to stuff a live goat in to the luggage hold. When I was waiting but the luggage carrousel at Dar airport I saw several bags of dried fish trundling around.

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It was only a small propeller plane but I am not sure it was designed to use wet mud as runway. I was nervous for the first time ever on a plane.

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This is the place Stanley uttered the famous words "Dr Livingstone I presume". I went to try and find it a ew days before, but in the last 140 years no one had bothered to put up a sign, so I got lost.

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