Blue Pearl Hotel Dar es Salaam

... block. Understanding a few Kiswahili phrases is helpful....but since class is over now, I rely on my small vocabulary of words and my handy-dandy dictionary. <br>The city is unlike any city I've ever been before, and I wish I could stay here for a good while. Right on the ocean, the port in walking distance, generators the size of car engines outside every other store front, every kind of food and odd store you could think of just around the corner ...

... two chairs. This should have been a hint but she just follow us to the table and pulled up a chair. So finally I told her I was gay and liked men so she should go speak to other people. Even this didn't work and she said I should buy her a drink because she was my friend. Mike now started laying it on saying he was my boyfriend and very geaoulous and I couldn't buy drinks for anyone but him. I now started getting concerned with a bunch of men looking at us a little too closely. At ...

... friendly nurse while Kaseem does his thing...<br><br>2pm Back on the road! <br><br>2.30pm Back off the road! We stop at a school, where Kaseem is organising a dental outreach. This involves meeting with the headmaster and the Sheha, the village chief. I'm relieved I'm wearing long sleeves and trousers - it's very conservative here. Kaseem asks me to the meeting - as a married mzungu it's ok. I sit in on what ...

... when went into Internet cafe to write about vic falls bunji...two blogs ago me thinks. Also went to the beach where i saw the most ammount of people i have ever seen on a beach, let alone the most ammount of black people i have seen in one place...(no racism here, just true story)...?! anyway, that night we partied aswell, andy wasn't really in th emood before but then got into it which was nice...so that when me and georgie came back from a quick sups they were already drunk in the ...

Hello everyone! This is just going to be short because I only have 20 minutes left at the internet cafe I'm at but.. I'M here!!! We had quite the adventure getting here though! We left Toronto almost 2 hours late to de-ice the plane and had a 7 hour flight to Amsterdam. The girls and I all thought it'd be a good idea to take advantage of the free wine on international flights... needless to say I now have a pair of pants, a shirt and a sweater permanently ...

... Liz and a beach sleep for Nikki! Friday we caught the two ferries over to the beautiful island that is Zanzibar! First night had a group meal on candlelit table set up on the sand at our beach hotel. Spent the day walking along the beach to the local villages, enjoying the turquoise, crystal clear water and turning a fluroscent shade of pink (mum and dads, yes we have been wearing factor 40 suncream!). Second night ...

... and we did some dancing outside, it was very hot! What was so funny was that the black people thought that white people could only play football, they didn't think we could dance!! After church, Holly, Hayley and I went to the water park with James and Deo. It was quite cold as the sun wasn't shining but it turned into a very sunny day. We played some games. 27/10 - Today was a very wet day, it poured with rain non stop! I went to Posta to get my ...

... driving at night without headlights. 6. Africa does not need any more retailers. Every family in East Africa, both rural and urban, seems to have opened a shop. Most of these shops are poorly stocked and carry a small variety of odds and ends: a three-pack of bar soap, some hard candies, a pack of screws, and a cell phone case. The basic microeconomic rules don't seem to apply. Even though the market is absolutely flooded with sellers, and there is ...

... because I tried to keep in touch with them but no response! Anyway, I went to the school - the school is really big and really nice. The children doesn't wear hearing aids and they don't speak but sign! I met Matilda and she treats me like she knows me for very long time by hugging me which was very sweet. I was quite nervous about the covent, it is quite along away from the school! The convent... is.... like a dream - it has got a garden and ...

... still took it. I spent the afternoon updating my blog. I ran into Simona and Jonathon - the couple I shared my Elephant Chasing experience with. It was nice to see them again. For supper, I met up with Anders and Celia. We had a nice dinner and then I called it a night. Tomorrow I am off to Moshi where I will try to organize a safari as well as my climb up Africa's highest point - the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro.