travel day 1 day 2 day 3 Game Parks day 4 day 5 day 6 Selian Hospital day 7 Kikarara day 8 day 9 day 10 day 11 Timaini University day 12 day 13 day 14 MAASAE Girl’s School day 15 New Life Band day 16 travel day 17 day 18

We only had some cleanup to do on the chapel project before the bus from JM Tours arrived at 10am. We drove through Arusha to the MAASAE GirlsÂ’ School. It is not the Maasai GirlsÂ’ School as I had been saying. We learned that by law the school cannot have more than 75% of the …

We were surprised when we got up that the power was out again. It was supposed to be out Tuesday and Friday from 7am-7pm but Thursday apparently was thrown in as a bonus. This put a crimp in our plans to use a power drill today or the internet. Breakfast (again) consisted of a hard-boiled …

We got up and had breakfast at 7:30 (I woke at 5:30am again) to continue work on adding screens to the chapel windows. The morning went fairly quickly and making the screens went quickly all day but we had some quality control problems with the screens that made the installation take more work. Towards the …

With a very early start (4:30am) and a modified strategy I was able to catch up on my email in less than 3 hours. Also in the 6 hours of internet connectivity I was able to chat with everyone in my family which was even better. We left the hotel at 9am for the Makumira …

The silly rooster outside my window thought dawn was coming at 4:30am this morning. Upon further review he decided to crow at 5:30 also. I was able to get back to sleep both times. I got up at 6:30am and reviewed some of the sounds I have recorded so far. I have been labeling them …

The bells of the church woke us up (except Jack) at 5:05am according to my watch and pealed for 5-6 minutes. I guess if you are walking up the hill you need more time to prepare. The rooster joined in at 5:30am. I managed to sleep until 4:30am but could not get back to sleep …

We “showered” this morning with a bucket of hot water provided by our host. It was not the Ritz but it was fancier that I imagined with indoor plumbing (although only cold water). The toilet is broken so we are using the porcelain hole style. Our schedule was changed from the printed schedule after our …

The fish Jackie ate seemed to make her sick when she woke up. I woke at 6:30, grabbed a shower and some breakfast and then listened to some of the audio that I had recorded so far on the trip. We packed up, loaded on the bus and headed to Moshi. We stopped on the …

I woke up at 5:30am again but that gave me an hour before breakfast to finish my internet time at the Equator ($3/hour). We ate breakfast at 7am and got on a bus for the Selian Lutheran Hospital which is just outside Arusha. The road to the hospital was through some of the poor neighborhoods …