Mountain Village Lodge Arusha

... I can give though is incase of a power cut only take a head torch into the toilet with you and not a handheld one as they can actually fall down... well you get the picture. Also another tip if you just put on insect repellent do not rub your eyes man that hurts. Just glad jenni came to my rescue with eye drops. Will never ever do that again.


Time to go going to have my dress fitting for the wedding this afternoon , wish me luck. This evening ...

... and it had 2 kills up the tree - a red hartebeest and a gazelle. Kopa drove around to the other side of the tree, took about 5mins, to get much better views. The leopard chose to start moving around - yawning, stretching and jumping around the kill.

We made our way to the campsite spotting a hyena running off with a kill stolen from a nearby cheetah. Our truck moved off 10mins before the cheetah had a little fight with the hyena, losing yet again. Tonight we ...

... flaminogs and also a black rhino whihc is rare to see, so many zebras, lions and also wildbeast!! awesmome pic of zebras running behind, another lion eating its kill amazning time now in Massia camp after seing the cultural heritage centre in Arusha with beautiful Tanzanite a gorgeous stone now my fave a beautiful blue, the cnetre had awesome carivings too had a lovely bbq, 6 people leving from truck now huge journey to Dar se lam capital of tanzania tomorow byeeeeeeeeeeee xxxxxxxxxxx

... that cause spread of HIV?"
21) "What is the importance of masturbation? Does anal sex feel good and what is its bad implication? How come can a pregnant woman give a boy and girl twins?"
22) "Why when a man is having sex when you tell him to stop he get mad?"
23) "Why when a boy is approaches a girl the penis erect?"
24) "Why do pregnant women feel nausea and are tempered?"
25) "Why do girl on menstruation period urinate very often?"
26) "What happens to a ...

... conditions. And soon we would realize there was more to Centre House. We just settled ourselves and some jumped in the showers only to blow out the electrical supply (which we now have down to an art form to reset). And we just knocked out for the night as we were exhausted. OH, the mosquito nets. These things are the bane of my existence here as I wake up every night tangled in them. My net is the only one that decides not to fit over the bed. The net ...

... I started talking mostly about modes of transmission and what the infected body fluids were. I had one translator, a young guy named Irwin. Turns out these women knew very little, because when I asked them what infected body fluids they knew, they only named blood and thought that people get HIV through sex because blood gets involved, not because semen or vaginal fluids can transmit HIV.

I went on for an hour or so, just talking about the basics and essentials of ...

... by it, like "Oh no big deal, this happens all the time." The dala continued driving like nothing had really happened at all. Unbelievable. Hakuna matata, the man escaped the scene with no injuries.

Today concludes our first week of teaching. I loved loved loved it! It was myself and another volunteer, Janelle, teaching about 35 kids, ages 15-20, at Edmund Rice school, everyday from 9AM-1PM. We taught a bunch of different things: HIV, STIs, pregnancy ...

... they all are actually, and all of the girls get hysterical when I try to speak Swahili with them because I'm absolutely horrendous. Food at my homestay is AMAZING - everyone thought I was going to lose weight here but there is no way that will happen because I stuff my face every morning and night. Every morning I get fresh passion fruit juice (literally squeezed from her tree in the yard), freshly made peanut butter, avocado from ...