Dear friends, I arrived safely at Kilimanjaro International Airport on the 19th of January after a 1-hr stop in Dar-as-Salaam. A very friendly taxi driver was there waiting for me to take me to Moshi, 40km from the airport. This is the view from my garden at Hahnemann House, where I am staying with another 4 female volunteers: Michelle from the USA, Lorraine and Naomi from the UK and Anna from Sweden. As you can see, we are at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
The house is really nice with a lovely garden around it. I share a room with Naomi. There is a guard and a 'house mother' that cleans and washes our clothes. We have electricity cuts sometimes so we charge our laptops, phones, batteries, cameras, etc (oh my, I hate cables!) whenever we can...
On Sunday 20 Jan we made a trip to a nearby waterfall and swam under it. On the way we played with a two-horned cameleon, heard some stories from our guide Isaac about the local Chagga tribe customs, went into a man-made cave where the Chagga hid from the colonisers, bought some fruit from children and women, had lunch under a canopy of flowers and admired the beautiful nature here. Next time I will tell you more about the clinics we are visiting and the work we are doing here. It's 10pm now, bedtime for me :) lala salama! (good night in Swahili).
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