Ameg Lodge Kilimanjaro Ltd. Kilimanjaro National Park

... as the army doctor bringing the patients!

The patients work with the AMISON – the African Military In Somalia – and their doctor charges for me to ask me what has taken us so long. These patients are so sick, and they have another 6 patients who need to be evacuated! I tell her to bring this up with the office and we will do what we can.

Luckily she has only brought the two I was expecting. I half thought she was ...

... of malaria - so I started him on a course using my malarone as a cure.

The area around Kibo Huts is definitely chilly and luckily after 5hrs of walking I still had some body warmth. There are no A-frame huts here, just one stone cabin with 5 rooms containing bunk beds. I was in a room with Tore, 4 South Africans, a couple from Holland and 1 Australian. Unfortunately one of the South Africans had altitude sickness at this height so she had to walk ...

... promised and less. The road from the park entrance to the hotel goes through the most desolate land I have ever laid eyes on. No exaggeration. It makes Gary, Indiana and Barrow, Alaska look like garden spots. It is flat, flat, flat, with no water and no greenery. It makes Kansas look like Ireland. There are carcasses everywhere, mostly due to drought. The dust is a foggy haze and there are dirt devils everywhere. It’s appalling ...

... good with a beef stew, cabbage, and potatoes. For dessert we had mango, and avocado (they consider it a fruit). We had an early night as the plan was to wake up at 7 am.

Day 2

My alarm didn't go off and I woke up at 7:45 which frustrated me but wasn't the end of the world. My sleep was ok but it was pretty cold and the tent was at an angle so I kept on sliding down. I have my own mat to sleep on but wow I never knew the ground was so hard. You get into a ...

... Zanzibar was an excellent place to unwind, even without luggage... now in Istanbul (without luggage again - thanks Precision Air, you suck).

Havn't decided where next, should be in England in back half of September, and back in NYC in October, thinkıng October 3rd for 40th (yes I know you all thought I was sooo much younger) birthday drinks, so save the date ıf you're ın NYC.

... br>
Great.

Traini ng and Fund Raising

As for other events over the next few months, there were many:

I gave Alexi the contact details for a friend of mine, Steve Davis, who is a part-time personal trainer and is extremely good at motivating people and getting them fit. Between them, they arranged a series of “bootcamp” training sessions designed to get some of the people in our group in shape. I didn’t make a single one of these sessions.

Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania alex_spence

... Sr. Gunda is an ogre of a woman, and our nurse anesthetist, who sleeps more than any other human I have ever seen...perhaps she huffs Halodane???; Sr. Liliwienda is probably my favorite however, a widely grinning elderly nun with no eyebrows and bi focals who laughed at everything and talks in short sing song bursts. What the Hospital lacks in supplies, medication, and medical specialization, the Nuns make up for in ...

Allo allo!

First of all, let me explain that the photos I
mentioned in the last entry that I put up did not work, at all, because
the computers here have FLOPPY drives, and it's a gamble to get a
computer with a USB drive. I wrote the entry and THEN assumed I could
put the photos up, but the computer was not having it, and my time was
up, so the photos did get put up, sorry to everyone who thoguht it was
their computers, etc.

Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania haleyss

... long division which I am
useless at, so it's better that Allan, also with CCS, teaches them, as
he is what we like to call a COLLEGE GRADUATE.

S'anway, this is
my story. This weekend I don't know what we will be doing, ideally
going on a walking safari in Arusha, but I also don't know because it's
expensive and I don't have that kind of money if I want to live here
for the next 2 and a half months. So! Maybe we will just be hanging
around.

Talk to you all soon!

... Dat was weer een wijze les. Maar
die jongen spoorde volgens mij ook niet helemaal. In ieder geval zorgde
ik wel altijd dat er mensen in de buurt waren, hoor!
Zaterdag ben ik een dagje op en neer naar de grote stinkstad Arusha gegaan
(waar ik nu dus wel verblijf), om wat tours te boeken, geld te pinnen
en meer van dat soort dingen. Ik vind van die ritjes met de bus altijd
erg leuk, dat is voor mij ...