And so free travel has begun....and what a week it's been so far! Zanzibar was HEAVEN. I spent the first few days in Nungwi, a hippyish section of coast pretty much ignored by the crowds this time of year. It's fairly predictable how that was, the usual white beaches, palm trees, laid back days and a large population of rastas that seem to be part of the island paradise experience no matter where in the world you are. After the sunbathing got boring, I did a few...

Right, the usual apologies for infrequent blogging, but it's been a hectic couple of weeks.... Tomorrow I'll go to J K Nyerere Primary for the last time, say goodbye to my students, appear in heaps of pictures but not take any (my camera was stolen along with my phone AGAIN), hand out lollipops and stickers to the children, write out my email address for each and every one of the teachers, recieve thiers in return and leave. Which will be horrendous. Then I'll g...

Jambo Jambo! Here we have it, my first blog as a 19 year old. Not bad eh? My birthday yesterday was Amazing, I love my housemates so much for making it work! We woke up in our favourite hotel in town (where we normally spend saturday nights) so I could start my day off with a nice hot shower as opposed to our horrific, ice-water bucket showers that I have simply never got used to. My housemates gave me presents and cards they'd made in the room when I fell asle...

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...