Jambo! Sorry if there are a few typos but the keyboards are pretty different here in Arusha and i'm running out of internet time (crazily slow connection - but cheap, just 2 dollars for a whole hour!) After a bit of palaver in Nairobi Airport (trying to explain to the transfers desk that there IS such a thing as e-tickets and they weren't just fake boarding passes!) we got our tiny propeller plane into Kilimanjaro, and then a quick bus ride took us to the L'Oa...

So, it's the night before I go off on my Tanzanian adventure and I can't wait! The bags are packed (a first for me, a veteran last-second packer) and there are only a few last minute errands to do tomorrow, so it looks like this might all actually work out! I'm already missing my family and friends an unbelievable amount though, I'm not sure how I'm going to make it five whole months without them! Plus, I'm not entirely sure whether my new housemates will under...