Chris and Paula’s World

Been in Africa for a while I spose, but I must say that Northern Africa seems like a whole ‘nother world compared to sub-Saharan. For a few days now we have been in Zanzibar, the wee little island off the coast of Tanzania. Coffee, spices, seafood, snorkelling, and blue blue ocean.

Like I expected, Africa is full of lush vegetation, bumpy roads, signs of poverty. The people are outstandingly friendly, but in cities, you can’t really go out at night safely, so we are told. Food is great so far, on the coast. Tonnes of seafood and spices galore. Internet access is not great, but who cares, I get enough of that at home

The energy here feels charged, all the time. I need to think about how to explain that more.

I stuck my finger in the ceiling fan yesterday, let me tell you it looks dandy right now. One of those nice blood blisters, like a mini plasma bag attached to my finger. Hopefully my finger nail wont fall off.

We have 6 more nights to fill up in Zanzibar, and I bet most of that will be playing in the sun and eating. Then we are off to Moshi (July 21st) for our CCS volunteering placements. Paula and I will both be working together at 2 different placements. One is with a Women’s AIDS group named Chawamaki and the other is with the Moshi Disabled Network. In both of these, we will be working with the groups to provide ways for members to become self sufficient. More coming on this, it is all new to us as well. I think all along we thought that we would be at different placements, but it turns out we can’t be seperated afterall I have to do some homework on AIDS and on Microfinancing before we get to Moshi though!

So, Africa is ruling so far. I think we both miss home like mad sometimes, but there will be plenty of time for home later. Rwanda is looking like our next stop after Tanzania, but we have a whole month to figure that out. Hopefully more time to post more and upload some of the photos we have in the coming weeks (2 rhinos humping!). Haha!

Jambo everyone!

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