Thursday, January 12, 2012

Finally here!!

So I got here yesterday and there was a silly mix up with the arrival date and time! So when I got to the airport after 3 days of flying, I had nobody to pick me up.. Never the less I found some interns working at the local HCMC hospital that were american and I got a ride from them. We were literally driving around in the African bush with no idea where to go at midnight :) it was rather funny. So to ask for directions we stopped a local man riding his bike.  yes he had been drinking so his swahili was a little hard to understand but we had no other choice for directions. There was no room in the car for his bike so we just left the boot open and held the bike while we drove. a bit of a bumpy ride... But we made it!! oh thats not the end of the story. once i arrived to a very dark Mutakuja Secondary school I found out that my bibi (grandmother in swahili) was at a Marangu Hotel for she was sick. So i slept in the teachers room which was quite the experience, and drove to marangu today. It is a lot cooler here for it is on the base of Kilimanjaro and a lot better of an environment for bibi.We immediately started to plan out what the school had in store for the next 4 months. We are going to plant all the seeds i brought,  maintain the tree plantation, remake the chicken coup, start another section of garden, and most importantly try and convert the whole school to solar energy!!! going to be a tough and taxing few months but totally worth it :)

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