First Week in Tanzaia

Written By Trent Lawson - Tanzania 2008 UniBreak Volunteer

just on my way out the door of Donna's to hit Esilalei again, and thought id quickly check my mail. Glad you liked the photos, that is only 20 of 1200 so far and the size i had to make them for facebook does them no justice at all.


Ill make a few DVDs for you when i get back, as the photos are each 10mb in size and so far i have over 10gig of photos, probably about 30 by the time i get back to Adelaide. The living conditions were rough for the first week, just getting used to everything, but i love it out there now. Everything except for the fleas. This week im taking a tent out. This is due to the last 3 weeks of fleas biting me. It wasn't bad at first but now i count over 100 bites on my feet alone, and they got really infected because of the ground being covered in cow shit I'm guessing ;) haha. Its no big problem tho, i just wanna see if i can control the flea situation with a tent because I'm not getting a lot of sleep with the crawling up and down my legs. Even Msee's mother is having a problem with them now. She and the rest of the elders were laughing it up at the Muzungu getting eaten by fleas, but now shes had to remove everything from her own hut because she cant stand it anymore, i left her spraying down her hut with insecticide on Friday afternoon.

Anywayz, i gotta boogie, glad Donna had good things to say about me, shes been really good on the weekends when i get back into Arusha, and i hang out with Nas pretty much all day everyday so its good fun to relax on sat and Sunday.