Rivertrees Country Inn Arusha

... had just seen. I followed her for awhile hoping to see a kill, but Gabriel our driver said it could take more than 2 hours for her to make one, so we continued on. We saw another pride of lions not long after we saw the first one with her cub, and the one lion walked right past our truck. From there we saw a ton of hippos and pretty much more and more of the same things we had seen already. Although... we saw the elusive black rhino in the distance, so at that point we had 4 ...

... Im sorry that I am recognising reality tv show personalities)<br><br>Other little medical incidents include a larvae in the foot.... which actually compared to botfly drama a few years back was rather uneventful. And currently am on antibiotics for hook worm in the intestine. Fun fun... even got to see them under a microscope at the clinic from a stool sample....<br><br>have not done a lot of travelling recently.... have had a car for the past 2 months which has been great so ...

... with us which was great. Took the dala dala into town (local bus service is not too bad to be honest although there are 12 seats in the bus with normally about 22 people in it so tight fit). Once we got into town walked passed all the important places like banks,post office and tribunal office (is for the rwanda tribunal ). Then it was onto a really nice coffee place next to big supermarket here for a coffee and to meet nelson and ben again. Ben then took us ...

... than later had a two hour game drive aka proper safari on the sunday saw some lions and a leopard on the trree and other species of cats absoultely amazing!!! hippos too!! arrived in camposite with no fences so no food could be laid out as animals may trawl toiwards camp ahhhh had camp food lovely then slept ealry start for monday!!!! half 5 in the morning for an early game drive!!!! literally saw lions pouncing for their prey but we missed the kill of a giraffe!!! gutted, saw a ...

... we were realising fast. All but 2 of our group were going, the 2 girls staying back were spending their time volunteering at a local hospital and orphanage. A couple of girls on the trip had already been volunteers in NGO projects in Kenya so it was interesting hearing their stories which were wonderful but volunteering costs money and it is money that the local people see little of unfortunately. So our first night in the tent and we sleep fine as we were tired and were in bed by about 9pm.

... as **** to get out of Arusha. One of the other volunteers was saying that when you assimilate into another culture, you go through stages, and one of the stages is like a backlash. That's what I feel like happened to me this week. All the things that I had grown to accept and love about Tanzania, I started to resent, and I felt like any cultural acceptance that I'd gained in the past six weeks had disappeared. I wasn't really enjoying teaching this much because I was ...

... they love and are hysterical the whole time), Alien, Tiger, Cow game, or Life Boat (they went nuts over that one) - most are from the Peace Corps manual for warm-up exercises. We keep an anonymous question box that is always filled with questions at the end of every day. Teresa and Ian translate them after the students leave and Charlotte and I answer all the questions the next morning. So after the warm-up activity, we go through all the questions thoroughly. The questions ...

... it&#8217;s supposedly also listed in the Canadian Travel Warnings). We are told never to cross this bridge (which is one minute away from Centre House) after dark as there are a lot of muggings and attacks. And its official folks, trolls are real. This bridge actually doesn&#8217;t look dangerous and is just a 5 metre attachment over the river (it was made out to seem more than it actually is). Anyway, we next came up to our new home, CENTRE HOUSE ...

... she offered 5,000 TSH for each of us, which is the equivalent to about $4.50 American? Psh.<br><br>Mwingu was a great, great time. It was really similar to American clubs, they played a mix of American and Swahili music, but mostly rap and R&amp;B, including Rihanna, R Kelly,T Pain, Akon, etc. The funniest thing about Tanzanian clubs: guys dance with each other. It's really confusing considering that Tanzania is an extremely homophobic culture - being gay literally doesn't ...

... The service was about 3 hrs. because of a special occation ordaning ministers. The language is beautiful and I am getting much better at it. They even introduced us in front of all the people and made sure we could sit inside even though it was full. The weather here is beautiful a little humid sometimes warm with a cool breeze. Sorry this is a busy post but wanted to catch all of you up since I haven't been online in a couple days. Later, Janelle