ok, so i flew to lisbon and i was supposed to connect to a flight to an island called sao miguel, its about 2 hours west of portugal. my flight to lisbon was late, and i had to get my bags and recheck them before flying off to sao miguel, but one of my bags was lost and i ended up missing the flight. I spent the night at a hotel in lisbon, which was very nice after spending the last few weeks in cramped hostels without any luxuries, so yeah. It was a little difficult getting there thought because the bus driver told me i couldnt bring my bags on the bus, which was entirely rediculous, because how am i supposed to get anywere. I ended getting on the next bus just fine. SO i then flew out of lisbon the next afternoon and i landed in sao miguel just fine. I then made it to the hostel and here i am in the city of ponta delgada, on the island of sao miguel, the azores archipelago, in the country of portugal. Everything is going pretty well. I had my first portuguese class today, which is exciting. In portuguese my name is Joao, which has a french type of sound to me. ANyway, sorry i cant give too much detail, i just have to catch you all up on so much and i dont want it to be too long. i will have more internet now than before so i can post more often and give you more detail. Gotta go! bye bye! Obrigado(thanks)

Lots has happened, sorry for the delay

I am soooo sooo sooo sorry it has taken so long for me to post. My last post was in my very first city in tanzania, and since then i have been to, in tanzania, moshi, dar es salaam, zanzibar, tanga, in kenya, mombasa and narobi, and i have flown to qatar, london and lisbon and I am not in the city of ponta delgada on Sao Miguel Island in the azores off of portugal. Theres been a lot, so I will try to keep it somewhat brief.

So Jenna and I went on a Safari in Tanzania for 4 days. We went to Lake Manyara national park, Serengeti national park and Ngorogoro crater. We saw a leopard in a tree, a cheetah, lions, warthogs, hippos, elephants giraffees, warthogs, ostriches, a rhino, a whole lot of different kinds of antelope including thompsons gazelle, grants gazelle, african buffalo, waterbucks, dik diks, topi, elands, wildebeets, and others, and we saw lots of cools birds and other really cool things. Everyone always wants to see lions on safaris and we ended up seeing 30, so i think we were really lucky, we even saw lion cubs chewing on a wildebeest. "Gnarly." Sorry I have no pictures yet, but I will get some up at soon as a can.

After that, we left arusha and took a two hour bus ride to Moshi, where we ate some really good pizza and lasagna at and indoitaliano restaurant. haha. Then we took a 6 or so hour bus ride to dar es salaam, and immediately got on a ferry to zanzibar island. Which was very cool. Stone Town had lots of old stone buildings and cobblestone like streets with lots of narrow alleys all over where it was really easy to get lost. We went after a few days to the other side of the island, which was all beaches. When we got there we were pretty eager to get into the water, and when we went to water the tide was way out and there were all these women in the shallow water farming seaweed, and it was really funny because we were like, wheres the beach? and in a few hours the tide was high and it was a regular beach but it was pretty funny. I got a lot more sun than i have in a long time and i got badly burned, even my legs and feel had skin peeling off, again, gnarly.

So after getting back to the mainland we spent a few days in dar es salaam, and then we took a 5 or so hour bus ride to tanga, right next to the kenya border, we than took another 5 or so hour bus ride across the border to mombasa in kenya. we spent less than a day there and went on to nairobi, which took 9.5 hours on the bus, it was crazy. we spent a few days there and then left on june 18th. I was to go to portugal and jenna was to go to dubai. We left our hotel about 10 am and took a taxi to the bus that takes us to the airport. It only costs about 65 cents for 30 minute bus ride to the airport, but he had too many bags that we took up extra seats and had to pay double, but thats ok. So i flew out of nairobi at 3pm and was in qatar airport at 8 om local time and my next flight was at 8am the enxt day, so i went to the quiet room and did my best to sleep in the airport. I got up and then flew to london. I rushed to the gate to get my next flight to lisbon, but the flight was delayed. Finally i flew to lisbon

MORE SOON!! gotta go!