I'll be honest with you all, not an awful lot happened this week.... It's my birthday next Thursday, so I've spent a lot of the week by myself as my housemates either have random strategy sessions planning all the details, or go off into town to do some shopping, insisting that I'm too tired to go with them. Stealth isn't really their strong suit but it's all really sweet. I've gathered that the plan is to have a rasta fancy-dress barbecue at ours, followed by g...

Hello hello, Well I know i've said it before but it's truly bizarre how quickly the week's gone! I finished last weekend at a new nightclub in Moshi called La Liga...what a strange place. More popular with the locals than the tourists it's this neon madhouse, with massive electric palmtrees dotted about and bizarre glow-in-the-dark paintings on the wall...very disconcerting after a bit of local cane spirit....Still, nearly all 36 volunteers from my group were t...

Right, first things first, please don't phone/text me as my phone is gone. No worries, as it's actually given me one of those classic gap-year traveller stories to add to my collection and hopefully I should be able to buy a new phone + sim card soon. Basically I was on a Dala-Dala going home from school, I had about 5 students crammed in on top of me and it was actually a fairly uneventful journey until an old woman decided to add four angry and (unusually f...

What a long strange trip it's been. Sometime next week i'm exactly half-way through my time here. Scary stuff. I haven't been able to blog for quite some time now, (powercuts have been really bad recently) but there's a lot to catch up on. First up, my housemates and I have left New Life Academy. The school is going through some adminstrative changes, and is closed for all of April, so we've decided to stay full-time at our government school, JK Nyerere. It w...

The end of another week and I just can't believe how quickly the time is passing! I only have 11 weeks left of teaching, and then a month's free travel! Insane. So, you're probably wondering why I have a picture of camels for this week's image...Basically, we went on a class trip on Thursday with the Year Two kids from New Life Academy to the Masai Cultural Museum and along other things there were camels. So we all had a go, and it was so much fun! My camel rid...