Well we made it to Tanzania. Its very weird to think that our time in Africa is halfway over but when I think back at all the stuff that has happened I guess it makes sense. I’m going through a little culture shock though right now. We are living with a missionary family the Russell’s in Arusha, Tanzania and it just feels strange to be around Americans full time again. Plus we are eating American food, we have running water, a washing machine, flushing toilets, and electricity all the time again. I was actually getting used to living without these things and although its very nice to have them again, it feels weird. But the family we are living with is extremely welcoming and kind, and we have been treating amazingly so far (see attached picture of the Indian Ocean).
So our first week here is a training week and, since the Russell’s kids are on Spring Break, they decided that we could do our training week at Peponi Beach on the Indian Ocean. Yeah pretty incredible! It was also really nice to get a break after 6 pretty intense work weeks in Kenya. We had a really wonderful week getting to know the Russell’s and their heart for East Africa, and also the type of work we will be doing here. It sounds like we will be working a lot with their Artisan Massai group and also with their soccer league. Plus there was just some fun stuff to do too. We went with another family from Denmark and the father in that family is an extreme sports enthusiast (he paraglided off a 14000 mountain) so he came up with some crazy stuff for us to do. We went paragliding, snorkeling in the Indian Ocean, and bunji cord swimming (there are hilarious videos of these things which may involve me crashing with a backward somersault). So yeah our first week here was not too rough, but it was nice to get a little R and R too.
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