so this weekend marks the beginning of my last week here. i've finally adjusted to this place, and now it's time to go ( Read more... )

so thursday i was back at the orphanage to take pictures, friday i went to st. lucia's, and i exhausted myself. by saturday i was feeling horrible. i was right back to how i had felt on tuesday. i almost puked, i couldn't walk anywhere in the home base without having to sit for 5 to 10 minutes and rest afterwards. so nick, valerie, kendra, and ( Read more... )

so today is my first official day out of the compound since sunday. well, sunday doesn't really count because i was only out for an hour. i got the death-plague. four of us had it. all of us survived, but barely. (ok, i'm kidding on the barely, but it was bad). friday, saturday, and sunday i had a nasty cold. then from monday until today ( Read more... )

mzungu: a swahili word meaning white person or foreigner. aunt teresa informed me that it is rooted from a word that means to wander aimlessly like a crazy person ( Read more... )

so the Arusha Project made the newspaper! www.arushatimes.co.tz ( Read more... )

This weekend we went on a safari to the Ngorogoro Crater and Lake Manyara. Contrary to what a certain Tijuana night club might have you believe, it was INCREDIBLE ( Read more... )

There's so much to say and not much time. We moved into the annex today where we're staying. it's more like a compound, but not much land around it. the dining room is outdoors with a roof, each floor has 3 4-person bedrooms with attached bathrooms and a big table with four chairs on a big balcony ( Read more... )

So we ended up walking past the Louvre and seeing the Eiffel Tower from afar, and the obelisk. We caught a bus back to the airport (btw, the Paris airport SUCKS) and had to eat McDonalds for dinner. After an overnight to Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) we met up with two other girls from our group. We had a 2 hour flight to Kilimanjaro airport and the ( Read more... )

I'm in an internet cafe in Paris ( Read more... )

in case you haven't seen me lately, i'm a nervous wreck. i'm constantly going through lists in my mind. lists of expenses, of contributors. lists of things to buy, things to bring. lists of things to do before i go, people to see before i go. and slowly, all the lists grow longer ( Read more... )