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Published: June 18th 2017
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Geo: -6.36903, 34.8888
29th January
Arusha is simple, earthy, colorful, practical and quite poor.
Ladies are dressed in amazing patterns with vivid colors from head to toe and they are walked along side the main road and balanced their shopping on their head with a small child wrapped in a piece of fabric and tied to their back.
There are cows that walked along side the busy road and usually looked after by a young child.
All of the advertising signs where hand painted, ranging from the hairdresser to the Coke signs on the shops.
We visited our first school and we where to also plant some trees. The school is called One Tree School because there was only one tree when the school started. We planted 10 trees and then headed to the classrooms. The school is made of bricks and have a dirt floor. There are windows but no glass in them. The black board has so many holes in it. It was a maths class and they where learning long division. As the sum continued down the board it kept moving right or left to avoid the holes in the blackboard.
The children wore a burgundy woolen
jumper with a white shirt and khaki or navy trousers or skirt. They sat at wooden tables and chairs. The walls are not painted. There is no artwork on the wall. The teacher has no computer, desk or chair.
Nothing really.
So, in the beginning when I was told to bring "Anything" to the schools, he really wasn't kidding......
"They really had Nothing".
As we left I noticed that under one of the larger trees had a collection of plastic containers. I though some kind of recycling project.
NO, I was wrong.
When the children go home after school they bring the empty bottle home and then return it full of water the following day.There is no running water at the school. Just rain water, stored in a rainwater tank.
So if it doesn't rain..... No water!I just wished I had bought more stuff for the school.
Along side of the road we saw these tall mud piles about my height. We pulled over to take a closer look. Ant hills and they where taller than me.For such a little creature they can sure built a very big structure.
Lake Manyara National Park.The first animals we saw where
the baboons. We where warned that even though they are cute they are very cheeky.
They like to steal things.
Anything from food to clothing and even passports.
They really are cute. There where a few mums with the little babies riding on their backs.
We saw deer, strange black turkeys with a long beak, zebra, wart hog, giraffe and hippo really far away.
We saw the skeleton of a hippo. The skull is huge and the bones are bleached white by the sun.
We where happy to arrive at out accommodation with a pool and mosquito nets covering the bed. There where also ladies making and selling baskets in the foyer of the hotel.
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