Sunday, May 31, 2009

Entry 3 - still in Arusha about to to do Safai

Still no pictures, sorry. The past few days ive been in arusha. I have have mainly spent time over the past 2 days at the school that jenna has been teaching at and playing with the kids there. They are very fun to play with, although there is basically no verbal communication between us, we still play together well. We rode in a "daladala" to get there to the school. We had to squeeze into a small bus/minivan thing with about 26 total people in it, it was pretty crazy. I never thought id see so many people on a vehcile of that size. You would say it could comfortable seat 15 or so. Ive done some shopping/haggling, which is kinda fun. SO the biggest news is that I will be going on Safari with Jenna starting tomorrow. It will be in some different national parks in Tanzania. They say we will see lions and elephants and all that and I will update you on all that, hopefully with some good pictures too. SO today, sunday, we are just getting ready for the safari. There wont be any updates for the next 5 days or more, but i assure you i am fine. I promise not to get eaten by a lion. That will be all for now, but I will let you all know, all 2 of you, when there are other, exciting things happening. Thanks a lot, and i hope you are doing well. Thank you and goodbye.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

entry number two i think, from arusha tanzania

sorry there are no pictures yet, i have no had the chance to upload anything yet. So i drove to sfo, flew to montreal, waited for a few hours, flew to london. walked a long long way to the undergound and that station wasnt working so i had to go to a different one. Oh, before that, my luggage was styill in montreal because they did not tag it properly. So in london i took the underground from thje airport. I had to transfer, but the station i was transferring at had a problem, so i had to take the bus, and the bus dropped me off at a different spot than the subway was supposed to. So i had to spenbt like 1/2 hour walking around looking for my hostel. I found it and it was actually pretty nice, for 12 dollars a night. They had breakfast. I stopped there and then i walked around. I saw the royal parks and i fell asleep in one of them. But whenever i nap i wake up feeling groggy and that was really not good. So after seeing some things there for 2 days i went to the airport to fly to nairobi. I got there so early once i got through security and everything i still had to wait for 3 hours. I was nervous because i had to pick up my luggage and i always just get nervous with security things. So I flew to doha, qatar. We had to get off and take a bus and standing outside for 30 seconds was close to the hottest 30 seconds of my life. I thought i might be late for that one but there was plenty of time. But the bus was not going towards the airport so i thought i got on the wrong bus or soimething, but then it turned and everything was fine. So then i took another flight to nairobi. I was a in a big hurry because the flight got in at 1:10 and the bus i needed was supposed to leave at 2 something, so i was very nervous, but i got my visa and everything was just fine. The road is crazy, Driving seems extremely dangerous and people seem to feel that they dont have to look out for other cars or pedestrians. Cars just drive towards each other and eventually they vere off a little, its like playing chicken every few minutes. I learned this on my bus ride to arusha tanzania. it was about 6 hours and we had to stop at the tanzania to get visas. I had to pee really bad for two hours. I eventually made it, alkthough that last 2 hurs or so were very dark and dusty and bumpy or slow, there are many very bumpy dirt roads on the way, and i was dozing off all the while. So i made it and someone from the hostel picked me up and saw my cousin jenna. Today, thursday, we walked around and did some haggling/shopping. People like to hastle you and it takes a lot to say no, haha. So now we are at an internet cafe. And thats whats goinon. I have to pay for this internet, so i am not saying as much as i could and I am sure that whoever is reading this can only read so much. Sorry if any of this is unintielligable, I did not have time to proofread it. Thank you everyone.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

I am about to leave!

So I am leaving at 4 a.m. My total Flight order is SFO to Montreal To London To Qatar then to Nairobi, Kenya, bus to Arusha Tanzania, bus back to Nairobi fly back to Qatar, sleep in the airport, fly to London, fly to Lisbon, fly to Azore Islands, Fly back to Portugal, trave around there, probably fly to italy and then back to london and then edmonton and then SFO. AHHHHHHHHHHHH.