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Tanzania<br>Malawi to Tanzania<br>Chitimba camp, to the farm <br>21/10/09<br>510ks<br> Every day in Africa has a different twist. I could write a novel about just today. This is the story<br> We decided to do a big ride today, it took 12 hours. <br> I had 2 flat tyres today they were both interesting. <br> The first flat tyre was in the middle of no where all of the locals came to have a look. There was a big ...

Alright... not a lot of time and WAY too much to write about so unfortunately this blog will not be as descriptive as others. I just wanted to let you know I'm alive and kickin! Last Saturday we went to the Masai market. Lots of livestock, awesome material, hanging carcases and beads. We partook and the less animalistic experience as you can well imagine. Sunday we worked on our Final Reports for YCI and CIDA and prepared ...

WOW, I must say the time really is flying at this point! We only have one more week of programming in Morogoro and then it's off on my own in Tanzania! It will be bitter-sweet to say the least. This week literally flew by, travelling home from Zanzibar on Monday made us a day short this week and you could definitely tell! Tuesday I had my Literacy for Business class and we had a guest speaker in talking about Life Skills. He had also studied acting so he was very ...

Mambo vipi!? Shwari. Hey everyone! It seems to be getting more difficult to find the time to update you all, but I can assure you I'm doing my best! I have had quite a week of extremely low lows and extremely high highs so hopefully I can fill you accordingly! First...don't freak out! What I'm about to tell you isn't as bad as it sounds...it's pretty bad but I'm fine now. After I wrote last Sunday I went home after an afternoon of wandering and purchasing some more kitenge and ...

#3 Every Monday we have Swahili lessons at Jess' house and we usually buy some food to cook at her place that mimic's as closely as we can our sorely missed western diet. We have an avocado tree in front of our house and ever since I made that realization I have been CRAVING guacamole... a staple in the Easson family that my mom and I enjoy on a weekly basis. Anyway, I finally got the stuff together and made a huge bowl full of guacamole for the five of us this past Monday ...

#2 I have to say, last Saturday is definitely up there for one of the most exciting days of my entire life! If you ever get a chance to come to Africa you absolutely MUST do a safari! We woke up at 5am and didn't really know what to expect, just that Godfrey's friend Victor would be picking us up in a van at 5:30am outside our home-stay. Looking back to that morning, jumping in a random van (dala dala) with four guys we didn't know at 5:30 in the morning sounds pretty sketchy ...

A Huge African Hello to Everyone!!! First I just want to say pole sana (so sorry) for not updating my blog in almost 2 weeks! I have been SO BUSY (I sound like my mother) with programming, weekend activities, and just trying to experience Tanzanian life to the absolute fullest! I can honestly say I did not ever have enough time in the last 12 days to sit at the internet café and write out an entry since my last one on Monday, February 16! Even this ...

Karibuni! Mambo?! Just a quick update while I've got some time at the internet! Not much has happened since my last entry but our Valentine's Day concert experience at the local club is definitely worth an entry! So Makho came and picked us up at around 9:00pm with our tickets and we started walking to the concert venue. When we got there there was a pretty good sized crowd outside waiting to get in and since Makho was performing that night we ...

Hujambo!? What's up my fellow Canadians!? How are things in the land of snow? I trust you're all keeping busy and staying warm! I'm having no problem with the latter... getting cooled down seems to pose a problem though! Especially since the fan in our room broke yesterday! Between that and sleeping under our mosquito net sometimes it's hard to catch your breath because the air is so hot and thick. Just one more thing I'm ...

Itchy itchy, scratchy scratchy! I'm covered in bug bites! Chelsey and I are pretty sure we have some bed buddies aka bed bugs! We're trying to do what we can to deal with the problem but for right now we just dose ourselves in bug spray and change our sheets as much as possible. I carry my After-Bite and anti-itch cream with me everywhere but still.... itchy, itchy, itchy!!! However, this week has been awesome so far! We have started our programming! :) It's great ...