Blogs from Usa River, North, Tanzania, Africa

So sorry for the delay in updates... some things have happened and are resulting in a bit of a situation. I will update you soon, I promise.... read more

6-22 Wednesday @ 7am I woke up and 4.30am and I've just been restlessly laying here until the light came out, and now I guess I'll fill you guys in a bit on the hap. It doesn't matter what time I wake up, once I wake up... I just can't go back to sleep - those of you who know me well, know that's not the case at home! I do go to bed very early here, I'm so tired by the end of the day but they don't make dinner until around 8.30ish so I eat at the am usually in bed by 9. We don't eat with the family, its just jake and I and than the two housekeepers, Bibi Sara and Shakira, who are sitting with the screaming babies feeding them. Those babies ... read more

6/18 Saturday at 730am So I've been doing small talks about the importance of malaria prevention here in usa river, and done some home visiting days to see how the people here are living and what can be done to fight malaria; I am acutally heading over to Lukendane in about an hour to do another speech and lead a community clean up as well, but there are a few updates on this project that I feel are important to share with (some of) you. Malaria is present here in Usa, but I was informed of different information before coming - malaria is actually handled quite impressively here...nearly everyone in usa river sleeps under a bed net, and uses them properly - even the poorest places, located in guerisero (where I work at the orphanage/school). Even ... read more

6/17 @ 3pm - friday - oh, elizabeth This week seemed to fly by. I can't believe it's already Friday, that means tomorrow is good food day in Arusha, horray! Today was fun but definitely interesting! I woke up to rain (and as I've said before, the roads are dirt, so mud in rain!) and its a 20 minute walk to the school so that was...fun? Got there and the kids were everywhere, the rain is always exciting to kids. There was a group of about 5 boys that all had these gorgeous little beanies on, I want one!!! So Friday's are play day, but the highest class has exams every friday through june, so I gave the exams to half the class. It was on spelling and grammar, and the test goes like this - ... read more

Monday - June 13th, 2011 @ 7am Well, that was a great weekend! The past week has flown by, but I'm happy with time going fast here because 3 months is a long time and I want mummy to get here!! I'm totally enjoying (nearly) every second... everyday is such an adventure. Saturday morning I went to Lukendane for the community clean up- but noone informed me that the kids werent coming.. hm. So, we headed into Arusha for our weekly outing to spoil ourselves! We took the dala (which is ALWAYS interesting) and got off at the top of town, walked down the main street, stopped in at yet another internet carrier place, but the whole wireless modem just isnt gonna work living in usa river. Sorry guys, no video skype! Emails once or twice ... read more