Jambo! Habari? Hello! Not many words come to mind right now other that WOW! I can't believe I am finally here....this is the most beautiful humbling country. wow. So lets see where to start. After leaving birmingham early Friday morning, I headed to Detroit for a three hour layover. Then, I met my new friend Heather and flew 8 hours to Amsterdam! Unfortunatly I did not sleep on this flight after taking an ambien! After meeting 6 people in Amsterdam and viewing beautiful dutch crafts, we boarded to 20 year plane to Tanzania!!! Here I sat next to another volunteer, Polly, who was meeting her daughter at the home base. She was a great temporary mother, continually reminding me to take my Malaria meds! Finally, after touching down and exiting the back of plane down the
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